Exploding Water Heater & a Hole Being Cut in my Office Wall … (Poor Fred!)

Fred told me he was thinking of my summer in Outer Mongolia this morning because the water in his shower was SNOW-CAPPED-MOUNTAIN-FREEZING-COLD water, poor dear.

Then he went down to our basement to investigate the problem and found a FLOOD. (It gets worse.) And a dead water heater. (We knew this was coming one day because water heaters don’t last for sixty years.) And the only way to remove the water heater and put in a new one required a giant HOLE to be cut in the wall of my office.

All of which would be very bad—but I am cringing a THOUSAND times because I left my office in its “Momma Tara has been focusing on other things” state:

OK. OK. Maybe not THAT bad. (That photo was from when I let things REALLY go when my mom was so sick and then right after her funeral.) But it’s definitely not 100% organized-just the way I like it … and that’s got to be making things even HARDER for poor Fred.

So please do pray for him! I’m heading out soon to start this women’s retreat in Pennsylvania and he not only has the domestic duties this weekend, he now has to recover from this horrible DEAD WATER HEATER mess too.

Thanks so much,
Tara B.