We finally got some rain last night. Boy howdy did we get some rain, not to
mention wind and dust and lightning a-plenty. We got so much rain and so much wind
that our back windows were leaking. Note the plural construction: I did not write,
for example, "our back window was leaking". I did not write "our bedroom windows
were leaking". No, our back windows were leaking. All of them. All at
once.
Apparently they're not really all that well sealed and the gale
winds were enough to force the rain in everywhere, so we spent a good hour placing
and replacing towels on the sills and bowls underneath. Our house has very few
windows on the front (north side): a couple small high frosted ones in the
bathrooms, one in the formal (unfurnished) living room that's protected by a large
queen plam and that's about it. In back, however, we have windows in the four
upstairs bedrooms and downstairs covering most of the walls in the dining room,
kitchen, breakfast area, and family room.
Did I mention they were
ALL leaking?
The downstairs ones weren't too bad, since there's a
porch roof over them. The three smaller bedrooms have relatively small windows,
and no one but an occasional cat sleeps there, so that wasn't too bad; we just put
towels in and moved stuff away from the windows. In our room, though, the window
is much bigger, and is apparently not at all well-sealed. Much replacing of
towels, moving of bowl, and finagling edges of towels (to redirect the drips into
the bowl) was necessary. I hear we got about an inch of rain on my side of town; I
hope it also extended up into all the reservoirs.
On the other hand,
since Rudder put all the sodden towels in the washer as he went off to the gym and
into the dryer when he came back, just about all of our towels are clean now. Not
that they weren't anyway, unless there are wild parties in the linen closet that I
don't know about.
Despite missing some sleep last night, I feel quite
surprisingly well today. A little sore still, of course, but not nearly as bad as
I'd expected. I've well worse than this after a hard morning the gym. Thanks to
everyone who sent good thoughts this way -- apparently they worked.