The Adventure continues…

Yesterday, I got to Hodge Podge early, and a few minutes later Rooterman showed up. (The local rotorooter).  It seems the tree in front of the store every couple of years, blocks the sewer pipe by sending roots into it, and these guys are supposed to fix the thing once and for all, through inserting a “bladder” into the pipe and that will seal it from tree roots. (Why do I doubt this?)  Anyway, they showed up on a Tuesday morning.  Sue was not happy.  “They can’t turn the water off today!  Not when there’s a group expected!”  Brian came in (who happens to be Shari’s grandson), and said, “Wait, wait, we’re not turning the water off today; we have Tracey and Paul with us and we need to take them down there to snake out the sewer pipe. (Tracey and Paul are DJ’s on the local country station, and are running a “take this job and LOVE it” campaign.  They are going to local jobs, on request, and trying them. The object is to get them to say they don’t want to do the job, and then you win prizes.  So, in the cellar of the store, we could hear laughter and “ew’s!” It seems they were trying out a plumber type job.  I went down and caught this photo of Tracey snaking out the sewer pipe.  “Ew, it’s wet..”says she.  Duh!  It’s a sewer pipe. To make it more amusing, Brian phoned up from the basement and had us flush the toilet, resulting in a flood of water coming out the pipe.  There’s always SOMETHING interesting going on at the store!

Here’s a photo of Tracey and her “snake”:

Apparently, they are coming back (rooterman, not Tracey and Paul) late this afternoon to do the real work.  So, if you are going to the store after 3, there will be no running water, i.e., no bathroom.  Forewarned is forearmed!

By the way, on my way in I noticed that Sue has started her new program of “yarn of the month”. There was a rack full of some kind of lovely variegated, handpainted, sort of, yarn, I think it was an araucania product, and don’t know if it was llama or alpaca: looked like alpaca, but since I’m allergic to alpaca and llama, I didn’t spend much time at it.  It was 20% off. Since I’m going back to the store this morning for an hour or two, I’ll check on this and let you know.  That’s a nice discount.  Check for updates later today or tomorrow a.m.