Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

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Wait, this rain is supposed to last how long? One of the big cat-litter buckets, the one under the biggest stream, needs emptying every 25-35 minutes, not long enough for a nap.

Not sleeping. Bailing.

(Actually, I could really use a proper bail. I've been using a pitcher, but a scoop with a flat side would be much better. When the water got too deep for my sabots on the shallow side of the room I did spend an hour bailing, and lowered the water level by an inch and a half, and now my back hurts from all that bending over. Go figure.)

Two roofers are supposed to come today but the temperature is supposed to hover a wee bit above freezing for the hours they're expected, which is going to make their getting up there kind of treacherous, I fear, given the state of the sidewalks earlier and the icicles forming on my chimney. Hey, maybe it'll just be wet, not icy, when they get here ... what's falling now sounds more like water than ice and it's flowing quickly enough through my roof to convince me it's all liquid, so maybe the ice I slid on earlier with haversacks of groceries hangging from my shoulders will be melted by all this rain ... or maybe it's freezing into a thicker sheet as I type. Hmm. Maybe I should run downstairs and open the front door for a look at the steps.

Of course, the sound inside the house:

I want to sleeeep.

My next door neighbour's roof is leaking as well. He joked about just turning his living room into a swimming pool. So I started wondering which would be cheaper, the roof repairs or whatever filter, chlorination system, etc. a pool would need.

I also started thinking that my third floor needs a goldfish. (Except that all the chemicals dissolving into the rain on its way through the roof and ceiling would undoubtedly kill a fish. And with any luck this situation won't last too much longer.)

I'd also considered that I probably have a mold farm, and joked to somebody about pouring a bucket of Lysol or something similar onto the leaky spots of the roof and letting it percolate down the same pathways the rainwater has taken.

I was being facetious then, but I've since started wondering whether that might actually work.