Our First Day Back in Ocean Falls

May 28th, 2023
While it seems that most of our days are busy ones, our first day back in Ocean Falls was a particularly extra busy one. 
The weather forecast was for rain, so we had to get our truck fully unloaded and everything inside as soon as we could.  This meant that Jason had to make many heavy trips down our long set of stairs from the back lane.  
Also, our water had been shut off for the winter and our house had been left winterized, so we needed to get our water running again.  However, when we turned our water back on nothing came out of the taps. 
So, while Jason worked tirelessly to unload the truck, I moved Falcon around from room to room with me while I tried to figure out what was going on with our water.  Eventually I disassembled our inside shutoff valve, and while I held a rag over the now open pipe, Jason turn on our outside shutoff valve.  I waited for the anticipated spray of water, but when still nothing came out I removed the rag and looked down the pipe.  No water, and only the quiet gurgle of a slow moving trickle.  We concluded that our copper waterline, the one that we had repaired last year, must have ruptured in another place; we were not getting any water to the house.   
With Falcon in tow, I paid a visit to the lady who coordinates the town's operations, and we made a plan to get us a temporary water source.  We connected several garden hoses together and then connected that assembly to the outside tap of our neighbours' house, four houses down. 
Finally we had water, but then things went from bad to worse as we discovered that we also had some leaks within the house.  Ocean Falls had had a particularly cold snap of weather during the winter, and many people had ended up with burst pipes, and despite our having winterized our house, we too had some pipes to fix.  Thankfully, we had the parts on hand to repair our leaks, and so by the end of the day we had water.  
Once our truck was unpacked, and our water was on, we could finally relax. 
It sure was nice to crawl into bed that night. 

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