Sunday, February 3, 2019

More Snow, New Truck, Pinewood Derby Preparations

Hubby finally picked out a truck! My brother L sent him the link to it. He went to Virginia to check it out, brought it home for a test drive, and for me to test drive. He took it back to the dealership, considered a few more days and then we went to buy it right before a snow squall came through. 
 It is almost time for the Pinewood Derby.  The pack has a course for siblings so everyone is making one.

 Temperatures dipped into the single digits for several days this week.  Perfect timing for another scout camp-out! Hubby said that sleeping in a tent when it is 7 degrees was not bad at all.
 Mystery of the week: weird wet patch in one corner of the basement ceiling- where there are no pipes running and no bathrooms above?  No kids dumped buckets of water in that room (the library) and no water dripping from gutters on the outside of the house. What could it be?  It was just a steady drip drip drip.  We went away for an hour or two and it was still going... Ready for the wild answer?
 The pipe BELOW it, that connects to the water neutralizer (acidic water here) has a tiny hole in it that was squirting water UP about 5 ft to the ceiling above it. Unreal. You can just barely see the little stream squirting up in the upper center of this picture.  The joys of home ownership.

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