Two sunny days and one broken pipe later, we have the weekend. Yesterday, like Thursday, was sunny a great deal of the day and it was fantastic. The one minor problem was that a outdoor faucet ,that is covered with one of those faucet covers you see in improvement catalogs and hardware stores, burst/broke due to the cold weather. I didn't notice this until I went downstairs in the evening to open the garage door, so now we have water in the basement which he will siphon out.

We have had pipes do that only once or twice before. This pipe, like the previous pipes, have garage exposure. The other pipes in the house are either in the laundry room or the basement, both of those areas are warmer because we can shut doors and get a little heat gain in the place which help. It explains why the other outdoor faucet, with the same type of cover as the broken one, did not break. In fact, I have a bucket under the pipe that feeds the outdoor faucet that also has a main water valve and a faucet you can get water out of, it has leaked because of the cold air outside and it dripped from the inside faucet. But no this year, (I hope what I have said has made sense).

So our plans have been altered for the day, but it's nothing we can't deal with.