water, water everywhere.......

ok, so remember how pleased i was with myself for cleaning out the garage and my closet?.......add the basement storage room to that list....not by deliberate intent......because of the waterline leak....oy!....when i trotted down to the basement to iron my church clothes this morning......my left foot splashed in water......atfirst i thought that the green beverage refrigerator has shut down, causing the buildup of ice in it's little freezer to melt......nope....the storage room was soaked....from a sputtering water line from the hotwater heater........and everything on the ground or within spitting range was wet......including most everything i had taken out of my office at the hospital 6 years ago.......books, folders, stuff........mostly outdated stuff....checks from accounts i no longer have...paid utility bills....new releases from food companies with recipes that i might want to print were i still writing a regular column.....lots and lots of expendable stuff.....which we dragged up to put with the garage junk going to the dump.......the luggage is stored in this room....and should the rain ever stop we can dry it all out on the deck.......the boxes and boxes of trophies were falling apart.......no idea what to do with all of those trophies......running/soccer/tball/swimming/academic.......for three children and 1 spouse............some things escaped......like the boxes of slides from my childhood and my dad's camera equipment......and a basket of recipes/articles from years and years of gourmet magazines....that i intend to type up into recipe cards one day........or at least organize to a usable state.......but i digress from the leak.....a neighbor down the road is a plumber.....and he graciously came over with his tools to stem the tide.......for a price...but at that point we would have paid more than he charged to fix the leak.....caused by the recirculating water heater system that was supposed to lower our electric bill........over the past 9 years the overuse simply eroded the joint that burst open.......so now the water is back on....the the storage room has been cleared of over half of what was there.........storage areas are by nature sleeping dogs......i have intended to clean out this space for ages,.....and could have gone years without doing so.....but now that the worst is over and the damaged goods cleared away.......there remains that cozy feeling of closure......thanks be to god for that..........