So we got our water bill 3 days ago.
AND IT WAS ALMOST $800 !!!
Sometimes, because of watering the lawn and plants and like that, our water bills gets to be a bit up there, but nowhere close to 800 dollars!
So David and I tried to find out where the leak was. NOWHERE near the house was there any visible leak, so we had to trace the pipe from where the meter was, by the road all the way back to the house - and that's like a heckuva long stretch.
So we made sure everything was turned off at the house, the dishwasher & washing machines were turned off, and proceeded to walk down that imaginary yellow line that stretched from the water meter just inside the fence, towards the house..
And then we saw it, a soggy wet swampy mushy area. *heart sinks*
To make a long story short, David the Magnificent, managed to localize the pipe, but that's when it gets tricky.
It was a task that needed some expertise, and so when we managed to get Roy's ( a friend of Johnny's) help, we were overjoyed. Roy, who had worked with the City, had rented a trench digger for the weekend, as he had been hired by some people to do some work, but they had stood him up. ( Praise the Lord !! Their loss, our amazing gain )
We had prayed for this situation at Friday Bible Class, and God really delivers! And in spades!! And in this case, it was in the form of a DITCH WITCH - er... ( and an angel named Roy )!!!
And then we saw it, a soggy wet swampy mushy area. *heart sinks*
To make a long story short, David the Magnificent, managed to localize the pipe, but that's when it gets tricky.It was a task that needed some expertise, and so when we managed to get Roy's ( a friend of Johnny's) help, we were overjoyed. Roy, who had worked with the City, had rented a trench digger for the weekend, as he had been hired by some people to do some work, but they had stood him up. ( Praise the Lord !! Their loss, our amazing gain )
We had prayed for this situation at Friday Bible Class, and God really delivers! And in spades!! And in this case, it was in the form of a DITCH WITCH - er... ( and an angel named Roy )!!!
We had turned the water off at the mains since Thursday, and had filled up a bunch of 5 gallon buckets with water for dish-washing, cleaning etc, and clean water for brushing teeth, cooking, making coffee ( LOL ) etc. So, we were beside ourselves when Roy called us up this morning and there was SOME flicker of light at the end of this long dark tunnel ( no pun intended ).
As I blog, the guys are still out there working.. My heroes...
As I blog, the guys are still out there working.. My heroes...
"This is the confidence we have in approaching God:
that if we ask anything according to his will,
he hears us.
And if we know that he hears us
- whatever we ask -
we know that we have what we asked of him"
(1 John 5:14-15).
that if we ask anything according to his will,
he hears us.
And if we know that he hears us
- whatever we ask -
we know that we have what we asked of him"
(1 John 5:14-15).
1 comment:
Woah you actually located your house on Google map! Now that's cool :) anyway yea a ruptured water pipe is a really troublesome one! Although I live in a terrace house in Malaysia a ruptured pipe leading to our house did create a lot of problem, especially when the pipe was directly under our living room and the plumbers have to actually hack open the entire floor to check for the leak! That left a big gaping hole in our living room until dad called in the workers to fill it up. What a nightmare! Hope everything is going well over there! Take care!
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