[yorkietalkjilly]

Yikes, Misty, Sally, Michelle, sounds like you all have been through bad, worse and worst times this season. I love the holidays and hate when they're over, though I almost always have some plumbing or other disaster on Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve - some time during the season something always breaks or goes wrong. This year I thought I'd escaped until my "new" washing machine(April, 2014) leaked yesterday, and I was glad I had a 5-year service warranty on it until I saw some bits of dirt in the bathtub last night - a dead give-away that the washing-machine leaking is from a partial blockage in the sewer. Well, at least I made it until after the holidays before having to call for the plumber, but still close enough to keep my streak alive!

P. S. My Christmas tree is still up - but my low back is out and I've got to wait until it's better to dust and clean it and the ornaments and take it alldown, store it away. So, the lights on it are on tonight and I'm heartily enjoying it. It's very, very cold(for us) outside and lots of the neighbors have their Christmas lights on tonight. Guess others are dreading the work of taking their decorations down, too, so for the time being, they're just keeping them going. And, for the first time ever, this year my neighbor didn't take her Christmas tree down the day after Christmas and leave it on the park way. It's too cold to go out and see if she's got her tree up still and her lights on, though she still has the wreath up on the door.