At one PM last night. I got up to go to the toilet. Yes, I tripped over the rug. And yes, trip altered our whole night and
day. I fell onto the toilet. Water rushed out and flooded the bathroom and
the hall. Dramatic stuff. I couldn’t understand him when he told me to
turn off the water. I didn’t have my glasses
on. I did understand the word towel, and
I started passing every towel we owned down into the flood.
I think we actually fell back to sleep around three. Almost at dawn G found a showroom for Kohler
19 inch toilets less than a mile from the house. It’s a comfortable height for us two slowed
down, long legged folks. It’s good for
Grumpy and G to get out too. He did have
to go back a couple of times. The hose
to connect things was to short and the fittings wrong.
I washed towels. Two tall, teetering
stacks of them. Pink and black from the
big house main bathroom whose fixtures were all in that sandy pink of the 1950’s.
About five clean white towels for this
bath. I sat in Grumpy’s comfortable bench seat and read while I keeping one eye
on the dryer.
Just as I came upstairs, his new graphics card arrived at last. His computer had died. Not only wouldn’t it turn on, it went to the
shop and our repair man diagnosed the graphics dead.
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<UL><LI><U><A
HREF=http://geeeee-zer.blogspot.com/>Himself:</A></U> <I>Putting the last screw in to the
power coord.<I></LI>
<LI><U>Myself:</U> <I>This, making slaw, reading.<I></LI>
<LI><U>Reading:</U> <I>Dick Francis.</I></LI>
<LI><U>Photo:</U> <I>Unfortunately, a clean bathroom.<I></LI>
<LI><U>Gratitude’s:</U> <I>That we are almost done working.></LI></UL
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Very eventful night. No more rugs, OK. Promise. Don't ask me how I know, I just do.
ReplyDeleteThe scatter rugs are gone. We kept one draped on the shower to catch the leaks. All the other rugs in the house are gone.
DeleteYes, Joanne is right. We learned things like this in our Falls Prevention class although we don't always follow best practices.
ReplyDeleteWe did it. We needed a taller toilet anywaay. :)
DeleteNo more bathroom or kitchen rugs.
ReplyDeleteYikes, so glad you weren't hurt though you put a hurtin on the toilet. Just great you have a handy guy in G that he could fix it. Yep, no rugs.
ReplyDeleteIt’s so easy to fall. I fell into the garage floor. The concrete didn’t give way. I was not injured though lesson learned.
ReplyDeleteNo more rugs appears to be a theme today!