Campbellstown: Silliness, Sittin' a Spell, and Ceiling Slicing : The Hawkcrew Visits (yay!)

My parents and sibs decided to use their precious few vaca days with us Campbells this month, and we're SO glad they did! Here we are "sittin' a spell" in the evening air testing the coffee and weight limits of our deck. (no offence, y'all)

My darling sis (along with her boyfriend Ian, he's the one above relaxing on the table) was able to stop in for 24hrs and get some "face-time" with e. My little girl has been asking for "auntie Eli coming back" ever since.

On Sunday Grandma took us all out to a delicious lunch and Geo and Sue (my dad's bro, obviously) were along for the fun as well. As Gma says, "It is good to get the family together." She's so right.

Eva's latest obsession is Where's Waldo books, so everyone took a turn helping her find him.

The real attention grabber of the week was the ceiling ~~peeing~~ leaking down in the den. (Our own dear Taylor was sleeping a mere 6in from the stream when it started. Of course he slept on through the running and towel throwing.) This is the cooler that was used to catch the water.

I say, if you're gonna have one, the best time to have a water leak (God knew), is when your handy dad is in town. And since he was going to cut a hole in the ceiling, naturally, a crowd gathered.

After the first incision...

"Confirmed. We have cut a hole in the ceiling... there." "Where?" "There." "Where?" "There." "Ah, there." "Yes, there." (Okay, I'll stop.)

Since that hole just wasn't big enough, we sliced some more.

Hmmm...

Confirmed: hole in ceiling is too small. Solution: Make it bigger.

Please raise your hand if you have any questions.

Commensing Test 1a ...

of a six part test confirming that, indeed....

We needed a bigger chunk out of the ceiling.

For real.

Sometime during Test 2c the crowd grew restless: Painting nails.

Suspicion confirmed: We have a leak.

Cracked grout in the shower upstairs allowed a steady stream of water to fall through the sub floor under the tub (yikes) if the shower head was aimed at the wall. (something we hadn't done before so we hadn't noticed any problems - we use that bathroom for bathes for Eva) As much as I'm making fun of the process, we really were relieved to figure this one out. Thanks, Dad, for helping us discover the source of the problem! We're going to have a contractor replace the tile and patch the (ahem) little "spot" on the den ceiling.