Day 19 - Wednesday, April 6

First thing in the morning I went over to Amy's house for various odds 'n ends.

Put the wheel back on her push mower which fell off when Carmen was mowing the lawn. Used the sawzall to cut out a dead rose bush that had encircled her water shut-off for the house. Chiseled more of the concrete from the south crawlspace access to let the water out.

Anna had an 11:30 doctor appointment near Home Depot so I dropped her off and did some shopping at Home Depot. Just as I was finishing loading up the car, I got a text that she was done and went back to pick her up - perfect timing!

After lunch, I went back to Amy's to meet the plumber coming over to "scope" the waste lines to see where they ran. The good news is that the main house sewer connection is just a few feet from the house near her bathroom. The old cast iron waste lines running inside the house go to the back of the house which is inaccessible. It should be very simple to redo the bathroom waste plumbing with ABS and connect it. The bad news is that the waste line from her kitchen goes uphill at one point and is completely filled with water and the scope could not go all the way through. Only a trickle of water could be seen in the sewer cleanout and the kitchen sink backed up and filled with water. I don't know if it was like this before or if the "scoping" made it worse. But now it doesn't work at all.

I ordered a coil of 2" PVC pipe that should arrive on Friday and hope that I will be able to jury-rig the drain until all the plumbing is redone in about a month.

When Carmen, Amy and I were having happy hour, Amy went to her back room and there was a terrible shriek. There was a large San Diego Alligator Lizard in the room - can't imagine how it got in. Carmen and Amy managed to scoop it up and put it outside while I held Penny who was quite interested. When I came into the house earlier in the afternoon, a large lizard scurried from near the back door along the back of the house.

We walked to the Venice Pizza House which is only a few blocks away. We had a Mediterranean veggie white pizza for dinner which was quite tasty. 




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