Life in Maberga

Someone decided that it would be fun or funny to dismantle the water tubes from the aqueduct to Maberga. That's just freakin' hilarious, no? No. No, it's not.

Casa Cornwell has been without running water since Wednesday. WEDNESDAY. A little reminder, today is SATURDAY. I smell really good.

Wednesday evening, after "working" for 3 hours in the orto with Augusto I came back to the house looking very much forward to a hot bath. Opening the tap, I noticed my aqueduct pressure was not present. There was a small trickle coming out. "Hmmmm?"

Knowing that Augusto left my orto to go up to the neighbor to have a beer, I called him.

L: "Augusto?"

A: "Si"

L: "I don't have water in my house. Is someone doing work? Did they shut it off?"

A: "No."

L: "Hmmmm?"

Augusto came by. He checked all the same things I had already checked at my house. Everything here is fine.

8.30 next morning I get a call.

A: "Ciao, Lina."

L" "Hi, Augusto. What's happening?"

A: "Someone has fu#&^d us"

As it turns out, the tubes that connect the city water with the Maberga tubes have been cut. WHO WOULD DO THAT?!

Just a little aside here....would any of you readers EVER think of someone cutting off your water supply, just for fun? EVER?

Well, it's happened here in Maberga.

By disconnecting a tube, the big containers that fill, through which our water passes, were completely emptied. We aren't talking a vasca ala my swimming pool, we are talking big big big vascas. Two of them. Empty. Which means that not only do we not have water but that we now will be paying for the water lost from the vascas, as well as all the water that was continuing to pump through a non-connected tube when we didn't know it was disconnected, plus the water to refill the vascas.

The vascas are now full and we still don't have water flowing into our houses. This is some serious sabotage. I hope this trickster had a really good laugh.

Did I mention that these tube are on the top of the mountain? The TOP. One has to be determined or highly motivated to do something like this.

So now it's Saturday afternoon and I still don't have water. I've been washing, myself and everything else, by the garden hose, which is attached to the swimming pool vasca. This, of course, is the one that is systematically emptied...and that the dogs swim in.

I have a dinner party to go to tonight. I'm thinking about calling to see if I can arrive early and have a shower before dinner.

Life in Maberga.

Weaving in all ends.

The knitters in the group will know that the last thing you do before you're able to don a newly knit item is "WEAVE IN ALL ENDS". Every single pattern written ends with that last instruction. "WEAVE IN ALL ENDS".

It's actually a rather stupid thing to write in a knitting pattern. I mean, come on...if you made it all the way through every knit and purl and decrease and yarn over, all the casting on and casting off, it should be rather obvious that something must be done with all those dangling threads hanging from your otherwise beautiful garment. It's like if there were instructions for having a bath that told you to DRY OFF at the end. If you've made it through the soak, shampoo, wash, shave, and rinse parts it's pretty obvious you should dry off, no?

Well, having said that, it seems like whatever instructions I'm following for writing this blog are missing the final step "FINISH THE STORY". I suppose that should be obvious when writing but it seems that this blog has a lot of dangling threads...hanging chads if the metaphor works better for you.

For example, is anyone wondering if Casa Cornwell has water yet? Dang, I wrote that post about the plugged tubes like a week ago and then never told you how or even IF the situation was resolved.



It is. Thanks for wondering.

And the reversible sweater? Anyone curious if that feat of knitterly engineering genius has had its ends woven in? Probably not, but I'll tell you anyway...






It is. Thanks for being curious. (check that out!!! I can wear it right-side-up, up-side-down, forwards OR backwards...amazing.

And friends, let's talk about the birthday jacket(if you don't know about this you can read here OR here). Yeah, let's talk about it. Maybe none of you have brought it up because you were thinking that this attempt, attempt number 3 in two years such as it is, just might be a sore subject. You were thinking that maybe jacket number three might have come to the same fate at numbers 1 and 2. Well, thanks for being polite but I'm here to tell ya that sucker is DONE!



Except for weaving in the loose ends, of course.