Eugene and Bernard apparently had another sibling down the bathroom sink. More like twin siblings that we have named Ernest and Elmer. Many moons ago, we wrote about Eugene, the clog of hair we found in our bathroom sink that was so big we named it. A few months later, we met his brother Bernard in the bathtub. Those of you who were here remember them. Or you should because it was nasty.
Well, the sink started misbehaving again and I thought it was the leftovers of the tap replacement, the piece of the sink plunger we never got around to pulling out of the gooseneck. So we called my dad to look at it because we don’t really do plumbing and the all important pipe wrenches live with my dad’s other tools in his handy workshop. My parents came by tonight and instead of finding the missing piece of the stopper for the sink, we encountered Ernest and Elmer (artist rendering as like their older brothers, Ernest and Elmer are afraid of being photographed.)
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(Laura, this is where you can go puke. We’ll wait.)
So the bathroom sink has once again been rescued and this time we have no one to blame but ourselves for the clog. My apologies for our lack of updates lately. We’ve been busy working and blogging has fallen off our radar. We also had to close access to all but those who log in for a while but we’re tenatively re-opening.
Other things… The pets are still alive and kicking. The weather has kicked into overdrive and it’s now officially damn hot. We’re slammed with work in mid-June which is really unheard of but we are not complaining. I would so rather be doing this than working in the cannery or trying milk every ounce out of life during summer break. I’m starting to feel a bit of burn out though and I’m anxiously awaiting our planned holidays this summer. We’ll be at the cabin for a while, and we’re going with my extended family to the beach for a week. We haven’t had a proper vacation since our honeymoon and that’ll be 2 years in a few weeks. We have earned the time off this year and it’ll be good to get away.