Haven't posted in a few days as I have been on flood control. We are into another rainy season. Don't ask me which one. I have given up trying to figure how the weather works around here. Like the rest of world, it has become erratic. Now I just get up on the morning and look out the window. Then I know the weather.
In any event, there was a huge rain the other night. I was sleeping contentedly thinking that all my roof leaks were fixed. I love the sound of the rain on the roof. When I got up in the morning and came downstairs, I discovered that half the living room had been flooded. Carpets, nick-knacks, the lot.
To make a long story short, I spent the day mopping and sweeping water out of the house. By the afternoon, it had started to rain again and the water was cascading in through the roof of the garden room which is open. It turns out that one of the down pipes had come loose and instead of carrying the water away, it was being dumped into the house. When it rains here, it buckets, so I was catching and emptying the water from a large washing basin every 5 minutes.
Needless to say, I was desperate. I called Ranjith, my all rounder, who said he would come the next day. Not good enough when everything is floating. I regrettably yelled at him and said he had to come right then because of the flood. He said he would come. An hour later, I called to see where he was. Turns out he was in Annaradapura which is about 3 hours away. Why he said he would come is beyond me.
In my desperation, I called my neighbour who came over right away and fixed the thing in the downpour. I had visions of him slipping and falling off the roof, but thankfully nothing happened except the water stopped. Bless my neighbour's heart, he phoned yesterday saying that tomorrow he would come over and fix the thing properly. He was apologetic that he could not make it over earlier. Imagine that. He is doing me a favour and is apologizing that he can't do it sooner. Amazing!
Apart from that, I have decided to change my daily routine. I had been exercising after breakfast which very often meant that I found an excuse not to exercise. Now, I am getting up, doing my exercise, having a shower and then carrying on with the rest of my day. It turns out that riding the bike early in the morning like this is much more interesting. All the birds and the squirrels are out and about, it is much cooler and it is fun to watch the fog on the hill opposite either sit there or be burned off by the rising sun. All in all a better way to go.
It has taken 3 days to dry my carpets out. Finally they are dry, so I am off to put them back down and put the living room back in place.
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