Oh Monday.

I forgot to mention in the last post that we were still able to turn the water on in the morning to shower and fill up buckets and water bottles to have water throughout the day. Sunday and Monday morning we were able to shower at home. Tuesday morning we weren't, here's what happened Monday....

Monday morning I woke up hopeful that before the day was over we would have running water again, um not so much. Not only did we not have water our house smelled...

Monday morning Russ went to get Blake out of bed and thought he smelled natural gas in his room. I couldn't really smell it and thought maybe it was the dirty cloth diapers that haven't been been washed in 4 days. I moved the diapers into the garage and we went on about our morning. Around 9am I went to lay Blake down and I noticed the smell. I called Russ at work and he called NW Natural Gas. The gas company was here by 10am. The guy checked all our gas lines and determined that everything was in good working order and there was no leak. He thought we possibly had a dead rodent rotting under our house and that was what we were smelling. We kept the heat at a minimum and closed the vent in Blake's room and the smell somewhat went away. Today (praise the Lord!) it's pretty much gone. But it grosses me out to think of something rotting under our house, YUCK!!

Now (Monday morning) our house stinks like a rotting rodent and we have no water... fun!

Back to the broken pipe....

Around noon the Plummer showed up (is plummer suppose to be capitalized? it says I'm spelling it wrong if it's not capitalized, electrician doesn't have to be capitalized. So why plummer, if someone knows, please explain:) (sorry for the tangent). He got to working and by 2 was finished. He knocked at the door to tell me he was done and I said "so we have water now?!" he said "no" :( I wanted to start crying. He explained that since our pipes were so old that as he was putting on the new pipe he made a leak in the main pipe that brings the water into the house (this wasn't his fault, we were warned this could happen). This meant now we couldn't turn the water on AT ALL. So I wrote him a big fat check for what felt like nothing (although he did replace a pipe and he did work for 2 hours).

The plummer left. We got some quotes from other plummers (ridiculously expensive quotes, now I wanted to start crying even more). One of the options was to dig the trench ourselves and then the plummer (the same one who was here before) would come replace the rusted out 60+ year old pipe. This was by far the most affordable option. We talked to our friends who graciously offered to come dig the trench for us.

Brandon was here this morning at 8:30am and Drew came around noon and Russ was off by 2 and the trench was dug by 4:30!! We are so grateful and appreciative of these guys to do this for us! Such a blessing!

The plummer will be here tomorrow morning to lay the new pipe. I hope and pray that we have water tomorrow afternoon and that nothing else goes wrong.

Here are some pictures of the trench...

The start

Yay! I see pipe!

 They had to dig under the sidewalk

 and under the house

Thank you Brandon and Drew for helping us out! We appreciate it so much!