the water is brown
The city replaced a pipe that had been laid in 1924. So now the water is full of rust and silt and it's unusable. I'm irritated because I had one more load of laundry to do. Just one. Considering the vast quantities of laundry I have done over the last forty-eight hours I thought it would be really nice to have a day off of laundry - but it's not to be. I will have to do a load tomorrow... and a load the next day... and perhaps even a load the day after that. For you see... the cats seem to have acquired a case of ringworm. A fact of which I am most unhappy. We bleached, we washed... things are still outside. Lesions are being treated and oral medications will start tomorrow but I have no idea how I'm going to manage that twice a day for two weeks. Four of the cats will give me a very, very hard time. All I can do is my best. But screw the ringworm. It's the most powerful tornado in my mind right now but it's not w...