Saturday was ...

one of those days. Around mid-day, while V was doing laundry, all this really disgusting-smelling water comes spewing up out of one of the drains in the back yard. Somehow the drain pipes for the house had suddenly blocked up. It was nauseating. We're talking about stuff that should not have been coming up, should never be seen or smelled by the public, but it did anyway.

Well, over $1,000 later, some really wealthy plumbers got the drain pipe cleared. It turns out that tree roots were nearly completely blocking it, and something got stuck and blocked it completely.

Our landlord will not be happy. It appears that the problem is bigger than that, with the city line itself also experiencing a great deal of blockage. Our landlord had told us to get this done when we first moved it, that he has had it done every six months, so maybe he won't be so upset.