While I spent a lot of time yesterday wearing rubber gloves and scrubbing with a bucket of bleach and water, my heart burst with gratitude that our lift pump worked pretty faithfully for 8 years. The warranty expired after 7. (We live downhill from the city sewer pipes, so this pump pushes the wastewater up to the road. Without it, all the waste flows to the lowest point and then overflows through the drain in our basement, hence yesterday's debacle.) With a little care and letting very little through our drains, we'll be able to survive without further drama until Monday. D's office has a shower and our neighbors are kind, generous people, so we'll get along okay. There's even a laundromat up the road. Not using our drains until Monday is a hiccup. A blip. Life is so rich even without being able to flush a toilet. And I'm blessed with boy children who are happy to pee in the yard.
(not my actual boy children)Part III--luxuries I feel grateful to have:
1. time to snuggle with each boy, almost every day
2. enough money to pay for house & car repairs without taking out a loan or tightening our belts much
3. coffee
4. stacks of books waiting to be read
5. sheets with good thread count
6. tulips and daffodils bloom in the spring, lilacs every May & peonies every June
7. a tube of excellent hand cream
8. a strawberry patch and a raspberry patch
9. a prairie
10. dark beer
11. karate lessons
12. wine
13. time to write
14. super soft fleece pullovers
15. good, comfortable shoes
16. a pool
17. a hammock on the front porch
18. dark chocolate
19. baroque music on the radio
20. radiant heat--nothing beats warm floors on a cold day
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