Miracle Miranda (How to Avert Disaster)

When we were setting up the power washer to wash the deck, I was wondering where I should hook up the hose.  There is a nozzle right under the bay window in the kitchen, so I went there. Miranda said she vaguely remembered that there is something different about that nozzle. I attached the hose and Rhiannon started washing.

Glen had come over to mow the lawn.  Landon and Piper were with him. Alice and Piper  had gone downstairs.  Suddenly they came up upstairs yelling and yelling and saying: “There is an Otter in the basement, there is Otter in the basement.”  They were actually saying, there is water in the basement.  Turns out the pipe for that nozzle outside the kitchen window is broken. There was water flowing down the west wall inside the basement.

Miranda runs downstairs and mops it all up.  I had to go to town and by the time I got back, Miranda had cut off the pipe, and covered up the hole so that it can’t be used anymore.  

Can you spot the crack in the pipe?

Miranda found the perfect thing to cover the hole in the wall.

Michael used a magnifying glass to burn his initials onto the piece of wood. 
A great outdoor winder activity when you are quarantining and the sun is shinning.

The other part that made me laugh is that the night before, Alice had been watching a you tube videos of a family that call themselves The Engineering Family.  I watched for a while and then said to Miranda, “Does that family do any engineering?”  She said, “No, not really.” 

Since Miranda had cut out the nozzle and patched it up, I knew the Johnsons were The Real Engineering Family.  The tools from the repair job are still on the island.  A couple of wrenches, a hammer with with some Swiss Meringue Buttercream Icing on it from Betty’s 5th birthday party cake.  Only Miranda can cut out a pipe and make a cake at the same time.

I love every moment here.  The chaos moments and the quiet moments.  If you can be OK with chaos you will like this holiday.