Obstacles do not block the path, they are the path.

So far today has been a pretty big bummer! I woke up this morning with high hopes of doing laundry and organizing things around here. Yesterday Damien spent the afternoon getting the washer and dryer hooked up. Under normal circumstances that wouldn't take a whole afternoon and two trips to Lowe's but the pipes coming into the trailer leaked so they needed replaced. He also ended up having to replace the receptacle for the dryer because at some point they changed the outlets on dryers and the one here did not match up with our plug.

So this morning Damien finished up hooking everything up and everything seemed to be working. There were no more leaks and the receptacle was good to go. I was so happy as laundry has been seriously piling up here lately. That's when things took a turn. The funny thing is that you can work so hard on something and think for sure it's fixed and then some random thing goes wrong that you never thought would. That is what happened to us this morning. Damien turned on the washer empty to run it through a cycle to ensure everything was in working order. Things seemed great..until the drain cycle... when everything went terribly wrong. Out of nowhere the drain hose ripped off the back of the washer and water started spewing hot water EVERYWHERE. We tried our best to stop the water but there wasn't much we could do. Damien tried to block the water from coming out the back while I used a bucket to get it out of the washer. Eventually we were able to get the washer to the back door to drain the remainder of the water out but not before probably about 20-30 gallons of water went all over our new subfloors. Now Damien has ripped those out and they are outside. We are hoping they can be salvaged but we'll see.




We went out and got a new drain hose and have successfully ran a load of laundry through the washer without any more water issues. It was scary as could be turning it back on but things are okay now and the trailer is smelling like Gain and bleach and we have some clean towels!

Now on to the next obstacle!