Gratitude Diary #2
I guess today I’m grateful that someone other than me will be wiping up the mess in my upper hall.
When I got home after running some errands—luckily coming home in the eye of a rainstorm that had dumped buckets on the streets in just a few moments–I heard an ominous dripping sound from upstairs. Sure enough, as I started to climb the stairs, I saw that the skylight above the stairway was leaking. Water had run down the walls John just painted last summer, and was splashing on the stairs, then starting to run downstairs.
It isn’t as bad as it was years ago when the same thing happened. At that time, water poured like a waterfall, with the stairwell helping the draining of the water down into the lower hall. This is more of a dripping, for now, at least. Should it start to rain again, it will no doubt get worse.
John is at the dentist’s. I called him to ask if there was anything I could do other than scatter towels, but he said that’s about it. I certainly can’t get down enough to mop the stairs. All I can do now is hope that the rain is over. And be grateful for that if it indeed is.
Posted by in 19:58:13
This is NOT a gratitude entry AT ALL!
You must list FIVE things; you list only one, and it’s not really a good thing, because you spend the rest of the entry being negative!
Hey, Gratitude Diary Nazi!
It was something I was grateful for, as it could have been much worse. Also, please stop chiding me. If I can find anything to be grateful for, I am happy. And I wasn’t totally negative. When our skylight leaked 25 years ago, water poured down the stairs as if it were a waterfall. We had just moved in, and were quite horrified. This time, we were old hands at it. I wiped it up myself with as many towels as I could find. And today, John went up on the roof to unclog the drain, hoping that was what had caused the water to leak in.
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