#MY family

[ungodlybliss]

some silly duke and cass bat-bestieship drawings<3

[goddamnshinyrock]

The scene: new year’s morning, 8am, my wife and I wake up at my parents’ house after a night of revelry (playing board games until 10pm).

There is one minor problem this morning: no running water. This is a mysterious state of affairs, as 1) the power is still on and 2) there was running water the previous night. We brush our teeth with emergency bottled water as my father, extremely disgruntled by the lack of his usual morning shower, goes out to tinker with the well pump.

Shortly, my father comes back in, triumphant: good news, he’s fixed it, there was a wire with worn insulation on the pump and he snipped the worn end and re-attached it. There is water! Peace is restored.

15 minutes later, as we’re eating breakfast: no more water.

No problem, my father has a fresh theory as to the culprit: the new water filter/softener. My mother suggests they call the guy* who replaced their filter unit only six months ago, and pulls out her massive binder of household records to look for his number. My father** insists that he wants to “just take a look at it” first, since he’s “pretty sure” he knows what might be wrong with it. He vanishes into the basement.

There are a few minutes of minor swearing and banging noises as the rest of us discuss the situation upstairs, but the conversation is interrupted by a sudden FWOOOOOOSH from below us, as if someone has just turned on a fire hose in the basement. We all leap up and clatter down the steps, to be met with the sight of my father, soaked and defeated, standing in the middle of the room and staring at the geyser issuing from the general vicinity of the hot water heater and holding a small metal pin.

After a about 20 seconds, the roar of the geyser began to taper off and my father was able to explain, damply, the events that had lead to ‘basement geyser’. First, he’d determined the problem was indeed the new filter, and had (logically) begun trying to engineer a temporary fix by re-routing the house water supply to bypass it. He had accordingly turned off the valve leading from the well pump into the filter, and then went to open the valve that exited the filter to drain the unit. The filter valve was held shut by a twist cap with a pin. He pulled the pin, but didn’t get so far as twisting open the cap, because it had already shot across the room under the pressure of all the water currently in the house draining at once. Into his face. And thence onto the basement floor.

But, on the bright side he did solve the new year’s day water mystery, and even got his morning shower after all.

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*Their Filter Guy is not a plumber. He was described as “the water filter whisperer”, a title which, after this incident, I am extremely skeptical of.

**Also not a plumber.

[mosdrash]

Found a new hobby/therapy: draw the various funny moments of the cast in Ithaca as their characters 🤭

[monophobix]

IM NOT EVEN MAD AT JAYCE FOR WHAT HE DID TO VIKTOR MF DESTROYED MY FAMILY

[kendyroy]

LOGAN, LAURA, AND WADE CONTENT AHHH

[queen-morgana91]

this is everything

[theonethatdidntgetaway]

VICTOR SAYS "CHAOS AND ORDER" AND THE CAMERA FOCUSES ON LOKI AND MOBIUS.

THEY ARE THE REPRESENTATION OF CHAOS AND ORDER

[hamzahilles]

Please help me evacuate my family from the genocide

I have been living outside of Gaza for 5 years and since then I have not seen my family again, so now I'm trying with your help to evacuate them from the genocide 💔💔

Unfortunately it is been 3 month 4 month now since we have made the gofundme page and still so far from our goal 💔

Your small donation makes a big difference 🌱🌳

My family also deserves a beautiful life

Your small donation can help an entire family to survive.

[michaelnordeman]

Kornelia is absolutely obsessed with nature documentaries. I’ve tried to tell her to cut down on her screen time (or at least not sit so close to the TV), but she refuses to budge! Here she is watching Wild Isles, the BBC series narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Värmland, Sweden (November 29, 2024).

[thesamoanqueen]

"You did that? You did that for me?"

"Yea, for you"

[kedreeva]

We drove across the state today to set up a photo frame device for my aunt, and introduce her to Bug. While we were there, we took her and her bf to dinner across the street from her complex, and my mom texted to ask how we'd gotten my aunt over, since we're in my dad's fuckoff big truck and she's not able to climb into it. My dad texted back that he just tied a tow cable to her wheelchair and drove over, and my mom texted me to find out the truth but

My aunt laughed until she wheezed and told us to stop being so mean to her sister, but when we got back to her apartment:

She helped us get "proof" to send my mom because you gotta have a little fun teasing your siblings

[e-vay]

My mother wins the day today, I don't make the rules 🤷‍♀️

[jenniesban]

they're so special to me. i love them very much🥺

[saharasuriii]

Experimenting with bokeh-sparkle effect, and multiply-add-overlay. Still far from perfect but i'll practice again next time

My adorable little Uchiha family❤️🌸🥗🍅

[tashism]

i think patrick would bring some mystery salad that he saw on food network to thanksgiving and be so excited for everyone to try it. like it’s 90% mayonnaise, but he tried, so art tells you and tashi to be nice. smiling ear to ear and putting a little spoon of the mess on your plate, watching eagerly as he waits for you to try it. when you do, it’s the tiniest bit — all you can do is smile at him. “it’s… good, pat” you say politely, pushing the rest of the concoction away from all the actually good food art made. art reacts the same way, except he pauses mid chew to really comprehend what the fuck he just ate. tashi’s not as nice about it, but she’d just say she’s being honest. even after her mildly disgusted “what is in this?”, patrick is still taking it as a victory that everyone tried it, his dimples deep in his bearded cheeks.