Wow, What a morning.....
No, this didn't happen this morning, but this is what we continue to deal with since we've moved into a recently renovated home from the 1800's. By no means am I complaining because we have an awesome house compared to what others have in Brugge. Most are 3 times smaller and out of the city center. We don't have to pay for repairs so we're good.
The picture above is from a few weeks back when the drain was blocked outside and where else is the water to go but inside. After getting absolutely soaked pouring buckets of water outside the rain finally stopped after about 45 minutes.
Mis-adventure #245 of Lacy: while I was cleaning the floor the next week after that happened, I was on my hands and knees and all of a sudden the weight of the water in the globe caused the globe to fall ON MY HEAD and break. What are the chances that I'd be right there when it fell. Again, soaked from head to toe I had to clean up the broken globe. For some reason the landlord didn't understand why I was so unhappy? I had emailed her right after the major rain leakage happened to let her know that the globe was full of water and it needed to be emptied. We didn't have a ladder at the time so couldn't do it. They don't know the word liable or sue in Europe.
The point of me telling you all of this is because someone just rented the house next door and they are having water problems. They think her problems are with the pipes in our walls. So, this morning I had the general contractor, two plumbers, and a random woman treck all through our house trying to find the problem. I'm just going to go out on a limb and say there probably going to cut a large hole in one of our walls. I'll keep you posted.
We also had the toughest Dutch lesson yet this morning. I think we may just have to wing this chapter. We were both mind boggled.
Just a random picture of the canals around the corner from us last night. We stayed in Brugge all weekend. Friday night we went to De Garre. This is the pub where you can only have three of their house beers because the alcohol percentage is so high: 11%. Next, we went to Opus Latino and had mojitos and tapas. Probably my new favorite place. The food was outstanding. We ended the night at a restaurant in the Markt looking at the Belfry Tower.
Here's our Audi. Just the right size in Belgium. Any larger and we wouldn't be able to fit down some streets. Our old Tahoe couldn't fit in any parking spot here. I had my normal driving lesson and learned how to "rock" on a hill without using the break. Go me! I think I'm ready to finally start to help drive especially on our upcoming 9 hour trip to Prague.
No, this didn't happen this morning, but this is what we continue to deal with since we've moved into a recently renovated home from the 1800's. By no means am I complaining because we have an awesome house compared to what others have in Brugge. Most are 3 times smaller and out of the city center. We don't have to pay for repairs so we're good.The picture above is from a few weeks back when the drain was blocked outside and where else is the water to go but inside. After getting absolutely soaked pouring buckets of water outside the rain finally stopped after about 45 minutes.
Mis-adventure #245 of Lacy: while I was cleaning the floor the next week after that happened, I was on my hands and knees and all of a sudden the weight of the water in the globe caused the globe to fall ON MY HEAD and break. What are the chances that I'd be right there when it fell. Again, soaked from head to toe I had to clean up the broken globe. For some reason the landlord didn't understand why I was so unhappy? I had emailed her right after the major rain leakage happened to let her know that the globe was full of water and it needed to be emptied. We didn't have a ladder at the time so couldn't do it. They don't know the word liable or sue in Europe.
The point of me telling you all of this is because someone just rented the house next door and they are having water problems. They think her problems are with the pipes in our walls. So, this morning I had the general contractor, two plumbers, and a random woman treck all through our house trying to find the problem. I'm just going to go out on a limb and say there probably going to cut a large hole in one of our walls. I'll keep you posted.
We also had the toughest Dutch lesson yet this morning. I think we may just have to wing this chapter. We were both mind boggled.
Just a random picture of the canals around the corner from us last night. We stayed in Brugge all weekend. Friday night we went to De Garre. This is the pub where you can only have three of their house beers because the alcohol percentage is so high: 11%. Next, we went to Opus Latino and had mojitos and tapas. Probably my new favorite place. The food was outstanding. We ended the night at a restaurant in the Markt looking at the Belfry Tower.Here's our Audi. Just the right size in Belgium. Any larger and we wouldn't be able to fit down some streets. Our old Tahoe couldn't fit in any parking spot here. I had my normal driving lesson and learned how to "rock" on a hill without using the break. Go me! I think I'm ready to finally start to help drive especially on our upcoming 9 hour trip to Prague.
posted by Lacy Eichenberger at 4:32 AM
1 Comments:
I have an old house (approx 80 years old) and I have water problems in my basement. I'm having a sump pump put in to help solve the problem.
But I've never has water come out of a light! That sounds dangerous. Glad you are okay.
eddie
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