One day last week, Kaeta washed her hands in the upstairs bathroom right before leaving the house for lunch, and she forgot to turn off the sink. When Karianne walked into the kitchen an hour later, water was streaming down through the kitchen ceiling!
She sprang into action and… called me to come fix it! While I was busy dealing with that, she took the kids shopping. Ah, another one of my “manly duties.”
I called our insurance co., then The Steam Team. They were at the house in under an hour, and they quickly set up a bunch of fans and dehumidifiers to get things dried out.
All’s well now, although we’re still working on getting some things back to normal. We found a carpenter through The Handyman Connection, and he’s working out well so far. His name is Paul, but due to his thick Irish accent, we usually call him Desmond (after the character from LOST).
Also, on the same day that this happened, I found a huge moth in the bushes in our front yard. I caught him and we ended up buying a butterfly sanctuary thing for him:
That’s the biggest moth I’ve ever seen outside of a butterfly garden.
Because the spots on his wings looked like eyes, we named him Argus (after Argus Panoptes, whose body was covered with 100 eyes). Later, I looked up what kind of moth Argus was, and he’s called a Polyphemus moth — Polyphemus was the name of the cyclops in the Odyssey. I thought that was cool, but I think Argus is a better name, since the moth has more than one “eye”.
Finally, here’s something weird — many moths, Polyphemus moths included, do not have a mouth as adults! Once they metamorphosize, they don’t eat any more. Weird!
And here’s a picture of Jonah wearing my glasses:
