CountryMouse's Refuge

I got up around 6am. It has been raining...freezing rain...all night.

There are two leaks in our roof/ceiling at the moment. One is inconsequential, and we can just walk around it. I have paper towels on the floor.

The other is above the windows/windowsill right by the TV, cable modem, and other electronic equipment and my nice wooden record cabinet. I got the Wii out of there. It had splashes of water on it. I hope none got in it. We've got paper towels down, a 9x13 baking pan under the longer drip. Someone is supposed to come look at it today, but there's not much they can do until the ice is gone, which will probably be days from now.

I'm just glad I got up when I did, then happened to be walking right under the less-serious leak when it dripped. Talk about the timing of the universe!

I'm on my Eee in the bedroom, but I'm plugged in. I want to keep the Eee charged up.

Okay, back to finishing eating my breakfast.

Right after I posted my last entry, the rain changed to snow, and it's REALLY coming down!

Cat'r phoned: he's going to telecommute today. I think we're going to Skype around noontime. :-)

This is a recap plus I've been posting a variation of this to all the groups I'm in and will also post it to CountryMouse's Diary on my website:

We have a couple leaks in our roof/ceiling. I thought they'd fixed all that when they put the new roof on...10 years ago? Oops. We are on the third/top floor of our apartment building. There's a flat roof above us. So lots of ice and snow up there.

One leak is not in a terrible place. We can just walk around it, mostly. We have paper towels on the floor. The bad leak is at the ceiling/wall over our living room windows. It's right by our cable modem, TV, DVD player, game machines, etc. It's quite possible we'll have to unplug the cable modem and everything else when things thaw and it starts to drip more again. It's slowed way down since the freezing rain we had all yesterday afternoon and all night changed to snow this morning.

SO: if you don't see me here, this is the one place I can still post to, because I can post from my cell phone there (it's not a "smart phone", just a cell phone with a QWERTY keyboard):

http://twitter.com/ctrymaus

Plus all my tweets of the day are shipped here every night as one post. So you can just wait and catch up here. :-P

I'll keep posting via computer as long as I can. Maybe I won't have to be offline at all--I hope!

What I have been twittering about today:

• 08:04 Roof is leaking. Hope Wii didn't get water in it. Lots of ice here. No way they can repair roof now. Coming to look though. #
• 11:26 The rain changed to snow--lots of it!--right after I posted my other tweet. No one has shown up yet. Driveway impassable. Knitting soon. #
• 11:36 Lights flickering...uh oh. #
• 12:00 @KenyB I doubt they can fix it until the ice and snow are gone...next week? No idea. No one has come to look at it yet. :-( Driveway awful. #
• 12:02 Going to shut down desktop computer for now. I'll check in with the Eee or laptop later. Sun is out! #
• 12:03 @indigonightbird A cheese heist? I'm up for that! LOL! We mice are always up for cheeeeeese! #
• 12:06 Had to rescue Wii from water dripping earlier. Hope it didn't get damaged. No Wii games for awhile anyway. Knitting, crocheting and DS games #
• 12:15 Why is the sunshine making me sleepy? I'm not part cat am I?? EEEEP! How can a mouse be part-cat?! #
• 12:46 Okay, really shutting down desktop computer now. :-P #
• 13:11 Have computer off. Started knitting a simple coaster for Bunnicula. Sometimes metal single-points are niiiice. :-) #
• 16:05 Snowplow doing parking lot next door; nothing here yet. Not expecting anyone to look at leaks today: driveway inpassable. #
• 17:44 Taking down Chistmas decorations. No matter when we do this, it always makes me feel sad. :-( #
• 18:54 Reading "The Worst Hard Time", about the Dust Bowl. I've only read the introduction so far--depressing! But riveting! #
• 19:39 The two things I miss most are the string of coloured lights I had up in the bedroom; and the mistletoe ball. #

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