Nowhere to go but forward.

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Maybe a better shot of the waters stains on the wall underneath the kitchen sink. You can red the details of the whole sad, sordid story here, from last night; I'm too wiped out to recount most of it here now. [No, I'm not sleeping, and all this isn't making that any better.]

The good news is that the new plumber thinks he's caught the end of the fracture in the pipe in the utility room. The water level didn't drop, so it appears that the rest of that particular section of pipe is sound. He is, however, cutting away all of the top and replacing that part entirely, with proper bonding and sealing.This is also by no means the end of it; that piping runs the full width of the house at the bottom of the north wall, with a bathroom and a kitchen branching off it, and we already know there's something up in at least the kitchen, too. At a minimum, we will be opening up the interior kitchen wall in that area. The utility room wall needs to dry out before it can be rebuilt, closed up, and replastered, too, but that's down the road a bit. Why? Because we're not out of the woods yet on the really nasty possibility, which is needing to open up the exterior wall and excavate, because the kitchen issue may prove that it's compromised to that extent. We just don't know.

So, anyway, here we are with everything gone to hell again, and no way to have prevented it and nowhere to go but forward. At some point, in an operation like building a house where you don't personally have the skills involved to do it yourself, you just have to trust people. And sometimes, people burn you. Badly. And that's where we are.

Which means I'm going to be a whole lot less trusting going forward. [And to be clear: I'm always skeptical. I'm always watchful. But some things we just can't do, and at some point, you have to trust that everyone's not out to get you or you'll lose it completely. And when they are out to get you, well, . . . all you can do sometimes is relegate them to the "shit happens" category, and be more paranoid going forward.]

Of course, we have no idea what all this is going to take out of us, especially financially. There's out health to consider, which is why we have no choice but to do it, but damned if it's not already compromised it a hell of a lot. And I have no idea, either, what's in store for me on testing. So we're going to have to make consistent sales this summer. A LOT OF THEM. And we're already way down on the year's average. So I really, really need all of ya'll to share the link to our site, consistently. If you're thinking of buying, now would be a good time. Offer written testimonials I can post on the site; send those testimonials around to your friends and family. Because just as it was with losing everything, with building the house, with nearly dying twice and all the medical stuff since, with everything, we have nowhere to go but forward, one foot in front of the other, and we have to keep going. And maybe get a little uninterrupted sleep eventually, before it kills me.



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