Gratitude

There is nothing like waking up two mornings in a row to issues with your water that makes a person sooo grateful that 1) I live in 2008, 2) we can afford decent housing & water, and 3) that we have a great landlord.

So yesterday morning we woke to our pipes being frozen. Our water pipes, the neighbor's pipes, our water heaters, furnaces & the washer/dryer are all in a little room that is accessible only from the back of the house. The washer has been broken, so the Landlord fixed it on Saturday. Unfortunately, he didn't get the door closed tightly. So, on one of the coldest nights of the year, the door blew open, and our pipes being the closest to the door, froze a bit. Fear of the pipes bursting and flooding into our basement duplex filled our thoughts. Thankfully the said Landlord came shortly after we called him at 7:30 in the morning with his propane heater and unfroze them.

Done with the water issue, right? Not so fast.

Over the past several months, we've noticed that one of the hot water heaters leaked water from the top (turns out it is our hot water heater). We made mention it to the Landlord and when he return from FL last week, he came to fix it. Done, he says. Ha! This morning my darling husband took an ice cold shower because the blasted thing completely quit working. I don't know the challenging workings of a hot water heater, but I do know my Landlord's phone number... I waited until 9:15 to call this morning. And being the good guy he is (or that he likes to keep such great tenants) he was here about an hour later to begin a day's worth of work and put in one new hot water heater.

So we now have water and it's hot.

But all of this makes me so grateful that I didn't have to go outside, collect snow, come inside, start a fire, melt the snow, make our food with the snow water, wash the dishes and end my day by taking a sponge bath, with the now cold water.

And I am very grateful that I have followed my husband's promptings and have helped begin to create our 72-hour water supply. With the water shut off for most of the day, and all of our family at work or gone, I was still able to wash out some necessary cups and clean some hands.

I thank the Heavens for modern conveniences and for following the Prophet's counsel.

And for a great Landlord.