Leaks Revisited

So today I got up early and waited on a handy-man to arrive. He got under the house and looked at the pipe that was leaking last night. When he got out from under the house he informed me that the piping had never been glued together. The house was put on the lot in 1998...it had been that way for ten years and didn't leak until this past weekend. He got under the house and fixed it and only charged us 25 dollars. Shortly after he left...it broke again. We had water spraying everywhere under our house all over again. I had to go turn off the water again, etc. We called him back and he came and fixed it all over again. This time it stuck...so far :-) It ended up being very simple to fix and didn't take very long, but we couldn't have gotten a deal like that from a plumber. I'm just glad I'm finally be able to take a shower and flush the toilets.

By the way, our handy-man is only 79 years old.

Leaks

We just got back into town from our little trip to Oklahoma City for Thanksgiving. We had a pretty good time except for the part where my father-in-law had a heart-attack and my wife spent the night at the hospital. Anyway...we just got back to our house tonight only to discover that, in our absence, our house decided to turn against us. We came home to a swampy yard from a huge leak under our house. It took me a long time to finally find the water cutoff valve underneath the house. I got muddy and smelly (not to mention cranky) and (drum-roll please) have no water with which to shower before bed. All this on top of spending twelve hours in an SUV and getting lost on the way home. So...despite this turn of events we are happy to be home :-) My father-in-law is doing well and we are safe and warm...God is still good.

P.S.
Did I mention it was raining the whole time?