The last couple of days we have had no water because of a busted water line under the house.  Yesterday we finally called out a plumber to fix the broken pipe under the house.  You can see this pipe in the photo above showing how it burst on one side.  Then we found the outdoor [...]

via flickr.com In the above picture you can see where the water line burst under the house because of three consecutive days where the temperatures were in the single digits. We in OKC are not accustomed to long stretches of this type of cold. I was unable to fix this pipe and so we have [...]

This week has been one of the coldest and longest weeks in many years resulting in the first pipe breaking freeze in more than ten years.  We have been sitting around waiting for the warmth to return as it has this morning, sort of…  The current temperature is 41 degrees.  On Wednesday morning I noticed [...]

This week has been very busy with having to work overtime the last two weekends in a row and working two hours overtime each day.  Some point this week, my HF antenna fell from the tower and landed on my next door neighbor’s power line.  Both the antenna and her power line were insulated so [...]