Ugh.

Um, yeah, so that to do list?  Down the drain for today.  Went to find good cards - not happy with the selection this year.   I was out for a half an hour.  I come back to unload the laundry and see it as soon as I open the door to the basement.  Water.  Everywhere.  Yup.  The sewer pipe has backed up again.  Oh, It will drain very slowly, but this means few trips to the toilet, no washing dishes and no bathing until the plumber gets here tomorrow morning.

You might be thinking - if you are that rare bird that reads this - "Didn't this happen before?"  Yes, as a matter of fact it did.  Mere hours before our flight to Budapest the day before Easter.  And here we are, two days before Christmas.

So I spent the better part of the morning shop-vacuuming the basement and the pipe the washer drains to, pouring washing soda and vinegar down the drain, and then re-doing the whole darned thing every time I tested it and it over flowed again.  Oh, and I had to go out in the rain to empty the shop vac out.  Fun.

I did make the cat presents.  Home grown catnip in refillable fabric pouches.  Yay.