lake leaky
you know that soapy dirty linty water that comes out of your washing machine and gets violently spewed into the sink in your garage before slowly swilling down the drain? well, so do we. boy do we. turns out ours wasn't actually leaving the house. there was a leak in the pipe just after it crossed under the house through the foundation. if the leak had been say one foot closer it would have made a big mess in the garage. and we would have noticed right away. instead of letting underground lake leaky grow and grow and grow. the leak was bad enough that the normal outbound flow slowed enough that things got pretty easy for the pipe to get good and clogged. compounding the problem. the lowest spot in the house is under the bathrooms. so the smell sometimes sorta seeped up there. and was mistaken for a more normal icky toilet smell. but i'm a good republocrat. i threw money at the problem. and it's all better now. still need to go down there and move the cable cables around. wee. here's to hoping for some hot dry days.