The plumbers are here.  They are competently and industriously doing...stuff.  From a lay perspective, it looks and sounds rather as if they're trying their damnedest to murder my house by driving a stake through its heart.  I am finding it disconcerting.  It is rather disruptive.  Allow me to demonstrate. This is my very favorite spot in my whole house. See that bookcase?  It has a twin on the other side of the fireplace.  I love those bookcases, love that whole wall, it's the first thing I see when I walk in my house and I just adore it.  The chair [...]

If, when you turn on the shower upstairs, water runs down your living room wall downstairs, you can pretty much guess the next few days are not going to go as you had planned.  Nor is your budget for the month going look like you had expected.  Not really at all.  Especially that last part. As you might perhaps imagine, this will cut into the production of scintillating knitting content over the next week.  It will likely also cut into my reserves of patience and sanity.  With luck, I will return victorious in a few days.