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If it's not one thing it's another. The hose for the ice maker broke, and we had a miniature flood. Now I need to call the plumber, and hope he doesn't send one of his incompetent assistants (the only kind he has), but comes himself.

Subscriber copies of Dreams and Nightmares 113 start to go in the mail today. I am reading for the next issue, and it is wide open.

Autumn is settling in, here in Alabama, with daytime temperatures only in the double digits. I'm joking. Well, I'm not joking, but it is supposed to cool down to the 60s at night by the end of the week, at least for a few days.

A poem of mine won an honorable mention in the Poetry Nook's  weekly contest. the prize was the exact same amount I earned for it a few years ago in a well known online poetry journal. I'm guessing the plumber's fee will be no more than 10 times that amount. Plumbers work harder than poets do, and I am glad they get paid more. I am not quitting my day job!

091918c

Are the plumbers eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever going to come?

080618

taking apart
the plumbing is risky business
learn to swim

090717b

Dunno what's wrong w prev. post. Fix it when I can.

where are the lazy plumbers?

one hopes
their good excuse wasn't fatal
truck trouble

090417c

Brought to you by "Lady Godiva" by the Velvet Underground

The plumbing in this house
barely a century
digging up the flower bed
staying home from work
but the cistern
unused for decades
is full

062717c

On worm world, everything is made of, or from, worms. This is not all to the good, but plumbing and water treatment occur simultaneously, as the pipes clean anything out of the water they can catch, for their own sustenance. An important downside: if you flush very much poison down the drain, even your pipes may die. You may replace them, but worms talk, and they remember. If you don't treat your pipes right, you may never get clean water again.

plumbing

My spouse is buying the kids tools and fixing their plumbing, just like her dad used to do for us.