Okay, so here we go. Tim's "Dumbest Day is His Whole Life" started out to be a pretty good day. He took the 3 kids to "Rainbow Park" on their bikes and came home for lunch. We ate, and after lunch I noticed that the sink in the kitchen was plugged. This happens ever 7 months or so, and I've learned what I can put down the disposal and what I can't. Its really not a big deal. Tim just goes downstairs and sticks the hose (with an attachment on the end) into the pipe and turns the water on full blast. It blows out the clog and we get on with our lives. This was about 12:30 ish. He did his normal and listened for the water to go through and then packed up b/c the problem was fixed. While he was out weed whacking I went into the bathroom on the main level and there in the sink was solid black with dirt and yucky sewage. Ewwh. So, I went and got Tim and it all began. To make a long story short, Tim was pretty wet. He told me it wasn't "potty sewage" but more just drain stuff. It sure smelled yucky and he had it everywhere. A few times he blew out the pipe and being there was still a major clog when he shut the water off it would just blast back all over him. You can just imagine. I don't have to go into much detail. He kept blasting and it kept not working. Finally, at 7 pm he announced that that was the "dumbest day of his life." He smelled so bad and he had "stuff" in his side burns, eye brows, and hair. ISH! I put the kids to bed and he headed off to Home Depot. He knew where the clog was, he just couldn't get to it, so the only thing left was to cut the pipe.
He was ready to cut, but then decided to try to blast it one more time. And, he had kind of perfected the power blast so he really didn't get too much "back wash" if it didn't work. It didn't work. But, then decided to just push the hose in as far as he could. It went pretty much the length of the house.......blasted......and worked. The drain opened. Yeah!! What a relief. So, as he's pulling the hose back out again he is noticing this gritty, gravel-like stuff that was causing the clog! To our surprise it was EGG SHELLS! We laughed so hard b/c Grandma Berniece always told me that egg shells were so good for the disposal. Tim said she was just sitting up there in Heaven laughing her head off. There must have been thousands of egg shells in there.....and he kept shoveling them out.
It was pretty bad. But, at about 10:30 the hose was put away back outside and the drains were working properly. The funny (or not so funny) thing was I was downstairs cleaning stuff up and heard a "puuufff" and the lights went out. The breaker tripped. Tim was too exhausted to do anything about it, so just went to bed. At 12:31 am the fire alarms went off. Now, our house is about 5 years old, so the alarms are all connected together. If one goes off they all go off. We jumped up and it wasn't a panic "get the kids lets get out" it was a "how do you turn these stupid things off!!" They were painfully loud. Alaina is scared and wondering what she should do. We just told her to go back to bed and cover her ears. Erik woke up but went back to bed and covered his ears.....the two little girls didn't even move. Tim practically had them ripped off the ceiling and they still would not go off. So, he runs downstairs, but the breaker tripped a few hours earlier, so there was no lights and no flashlights to be found. If there is a flashlight in the house the kids find them! ARRGGH! Eventually Tim did get the alarms off. He didn't sleep that night, though. And, the next day went back to the HD and picked up a fire extinguisher and some batteries. Now we have a plan. We went to church and came home, ate lunch, and behold the clog was back. It was not cool, but everyone stayed calm. Tim blasted it out and it worked the first time. AMEN. :)
So, that's it. Alaina still will ask if its okay to flush the toilet. See, Lis and Brian were getting blamed for the plug b/c they had just left the day before, but it wasn't them after all. :)
