Mystery Solved

Well the mystery of the occasional puddles of water in the basement near the washer has been solved! I realized and showed Jeff that the wash tub wasn't wet on the outside and there was no water under the washer or near the wall, but I did notice that there was a little water under the dehumidifier.  When I tried to remove the water container, it was jammed..Could the water be leaking from there?  It shares the drain with the washtub.  Jeff was able to get the water receptacle out and there was lots of water in it.  Apparently the water was backing up into the dehumidifier and collected in the bin, then every few loads of laundry the bin would overflow.. We cleaned up the puddle and Jeff rigged up a new tubing system.  Great, all fixed..let's do more laundry!  Wrong!  Matthew wanted to eat Chinese food tonight so we were looking up places to go.  Wanted to try a new place.  Matthew got bored and went to pitch a few tennis balls against the wall downstairs when he came and told us there was a flood downstairs, lots of water!  All of us hurried downstairs and found standing water around the washer, the piles of dirty laundry were soaked, and there was water even standing along the wall with the freezer! So much for the Chinese food.  Instead we got the wet/dry vac out and spent an hour sucking up water, lint and paint chips from the floor.  It sure does work good. More cleaning.  The tubing system didn't fix the problem and the overfill container he had was too small.  Things are looking much better now, did a couple loads of laundry and no puddles or floods! 

If you are wondering about dinner, we ate at Taco Bell.  It was pretty good tonight.  We are watching movies and checking the computer.  We can now watch movies instantly through Netflix on our Wii system.  The disc they send for you to access the movies is free!  We are going to take advantage of it!  Matthew fell asleep, but Jeff and I are watching our second movie of the night.


Going to get some folding done..

Gracie

PS: Report from Mary~Frankie Valli was AWESOME!