Guess I'll stop tromping around in the greenbelt with the 5 yr old now that it's warming up!
The night before our sustained freeze of three days, our neighbor across the street said he was stuffing the water meter "hole" with rags to keep it from freezing, as it would be nearly impossible to turn off at the street if he had a broken pipe. So of course, I had him lift the heavy cover on ours and I stuffed lots of blanket and towel pieces snuggly in. And.....I forgot to take 'em out. This morning I heard a loud clang out front and knew immediately that the water meter reader had found my rags! (He's the same guy that tried to give me a ticket for hand watering. He was wrong).
I haven't seen my neighbor out, but I think the meter reader went to his door this morning to ask "Why?" It's been raining, so I haven't gone out to see if neighbor had to remove the rags for me! I can see the lid is still lifted a bit. Oh well, it'll make a good story to tell DH when I pick him up at the airport!
