More House Gremlins
While making drinks for dinner last night, I found a broken glass in the cabinet. We have lots of glasses, so no big. This morning while putting away dishes, I noticed that a plate in the cabinet was broken. It is about a 1/3 – 2/3 split. This is also not that big of a deal because there weren’t any missing or chipped off pieces so I can glue it back together, and only a close look will tell you that it broke. Last night I decided to take my camera out to get a photo of James in his new jammies. We sat in the area by the laundry closet and bedrooms. I took 174 photos, and only 1 of them came out somewhat okay. The rest were terrible. Then this morning, we woke up and the lights in that area didn’t work. Neither do the outlets–also the lights in the laundry closet, the lights and outlets in the kids’ room, and the outlet by the recliner in the living room. They are all on one circuit, so we unplugged everything and Mac went down to reset the breaker except that the breaker wasn’t tripped. None of them were. He flicked it off and on a couple of times and still no power. Now I get to MacGyver the water out of the washing machine in the dark*. I think I need to MacGyver a flashlight to a hat.
We now get to add an electrician to our list of repair bills, and I am hoping that it doesn’t spread any further, or we have an electrical fire that burns our house down**. We set the breaker to off until we can have it looked at.
*The outlets for the washer and dryer are on their own circuit, and are still working at this time.
**Yes, I knocked on every piece of wood in my house after typing that.
