So, that is our kitchen floor about 20 minutes after we finished dinner on Christmas Eve.A wonderful meal, wonderful conversation, a fire in the fireplace, and watching It's A Wonderful Life. Then "boom," followed by a sound like a fire hose. Like the guy in The Night Before Christmas who" rose from his bed to se what was the matter, " (when he like us heard such a clatter) we ran to the kitchen to see a massive incoming tide from underneath the sink as pipes which had chosen this night to pop were quickly evacuating large quantities of water under great pressure. Every towel in the house was brought into action before the water soaked into the edges of our floor and underneath. Water off, everything soaked, then washing machine broke.
And you know what? It was a wonderful Christmas. We bought less, we worshiped more, we made gifts we helped the poor.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
