No Boom

Oh what a weekend! We had planned on working in the yard this weekend, but then when we found out T's parents were going to be coming through we decided to kick it up a notch. We rented an excavator so we could get rid of the big rock wall that partially spans our backyard. T called the gas company, but they didn't have enough notice to come stake out the gas line (they need 48 hours notice). So T and his Dad found where it was and marked it out in the yard...but apparently it looped back into the alley.

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I was feeding Boo in the nursery when my mother-in-law came in yelling for me to get out of the house. We all ran out front and it sounded like some gigantic inner tube had just got punctured! It was SO loud! Everyone was pretty shook up, but I was fine once I realized that no one was hurt.

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We had to call the Fire Department and the police came and evacuated everyone in a three block radius...which wouldn't have been quite so bad except that our neighbor is 101 years old and bed bound so they had to bring in an ambulance to get her out of her house. Ugh. Quite the ordeal!

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Grandma and I took the girls down to the park and we hadn't grabbed our purses so we didn't have anything...I was thankful I had been wearing shoes and not slippers. :) Poor Boo had to wear a wet diaper for about four hours since I couldn't change it. I thought it would leak through since it was a cloth one but it held up to the task. :)

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Thankfully my parents were coming through town so they bought us lunch since we were evacuated right before lunch and didn't have any money on us. The gas company didn't get the line pinched for a full hour and half. Our whole house smelled like propane really bad, but I was just thankful that it didn't explode!

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So after about two hours we were able to come back home and they shut off our gas until they can come back on Monday.

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We did make some good progress on the yard! :) Grandpa got the whole rock wall torn down and loaded (well three loads actually) so T could take it away to my parents, who want to make a wall at their house. Here's Grandpa tearing down the fireplace. It was a cool fireplace and I wish we could have saved it, but it was just a crumbling mess. It would have been near to impossible to fix it.

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The cones and plywood are covering up the burst gas line.

There were some pretty nice pieces of granite back there so they should make a nice wall.

I can't believe how smooth he was able to make it! Not 24 hours ago this was a lumpy, rocky mess and now it's nice and smooth and ready for a new fence!

So we all survived the weekend and things turned out pretty well. Grandma and Grandpa took the last load of rock this morning so that T could go to church with us...so nice! They gave out snickers bars to all the dads and Boo confiscated one. :)

Hungry? Why wait?

Daddy and his girls!

It's pouring down rain right now and the guys are still out working in it, so hopefully they'll be able to finish up soon and we can take them out to a nice dinner for Father's Day. Unfortunately they are cold and wet and we have no hot water or heat. At least, in the words of Bug, there was "no boom". :)