I'm grateful they are taking this seriously but they are also used to being able to go out and go for walks pretty much every day
Whoa, they aren't even supposed to go outside for a walk? Yikes. We are basically sheltering in place here too, but we are for damn sure getting outside every chance we get.
...And in the time between writing the above and hitting Post, the sink fell out of our kitchen counter! It is currently being held up by cookbooks and several cans of beans and soup I had stockpiled, while we wait to hear from the insurance claims adjuster, likely tomorrow. And then someone has to come into our house to fix it, which I'm not thrilled about...
Also, my parents have been traveling in Arizona and California (visiting my brother in L.A.), and they were supposed to stay through Sunday (they've been gone almost two weeks already), but FINALLY decided to change their tickets and go home tomorrow. I'm relieved but also worried that it's too late. They are both in their 70s, and both have some health issues, especially my mom. Neither of them has breathing issues or is immunocompromised, but still -- they should have gone home a week ago!
Yes, the sink fell out! Which was not a thing I even knew was possible!
I did not know that was possible either! How weird!! Good luck???
When I was a kid, I was always afraid the bathtub would fall into the basement. (Our house was up to code; I just had an overactive imagination.) Your sink is like that!
Any time I've considered asking about remodeling an upstairs apartment bathroom on my own dime to install a clawfoot tub, I've had flashbacks to the one from The Money Pit falling through Tom Hanks' house like a wrecking ball.
Come on, sink, that was hardly necessary. We are all impressed, though!
Whoa, they aren't even supposed to go outside for a walk?
It's unclear from the, er, thingy that was posted outlining the regs. Hiking trails and parks are open, but there's also a mention that non-essential travel by foot (they list a bunch of modes of travel but by foot is specifically in there) is prohibited, so, dunno! It also says that people over 70 should stay indoors, which is QUITE a drag and I am pretty sure that both my parents will be out in their yard on occasion but they are used to, like, 3-5 mile hikes and that's probably not really a good idea right now.
I lived in a place in NOLA that had a clawfoot tub on the second floor and it would shake like the dickens when heavy trucks went by and it was TERRIFYING. That was also the place where we didn't have a stove/oven because I saw the landlord hooking up the gas water heater and he CLEARLY did not know what he was doing so we were just like, that's okay, leave the stove disconnected and cooked on an alcohol-burning camp stove. We were only there for 6 months because having no heat was manageable but having no A/C was gonna be bad. Super cheap, though.
