So this morning we were heading out the door to take Owen to school when this happened:
WHAT??? I mean really, has this ever happened to anyone else? Not two minutes before, we’d been sitting at the table finishing up breakfast. I’m so thankful that no one was underneath when this happened. (Although I will admit that my first thought when I heard the crash was whether or not it had damaged my table. Does that make me a horrible mother??)
After determining that everyone was safe (including my table), I called Travis telling him that he needed to come home right then because I had absolutely no CLUE what to do with a situation like this. He’s a good man and turned around after completing 15 of his 45 minute commute to come to my rescue. He examined it, determined that he had no clue what to do either, and called someone professional. Unfortunately the profession fan man (that’s kind of fun to say, huh?) can’t come until tomorrow so we’re stuck with this enormously large and heavy fan dangling in the center of my dining room.
I’m a wee bit nervous that our dangling fan might decide to complete it’s plunge any minute so I’ve covered the floor with pillows in an attempt to save my floor. The table has been pushed as far out of the way as possible and the children and dog have been banned from the dining room. And because it is dangling from wires, I’m a slight little bit afraid of what might happen if one of the wires were to snap. I think of sparks and fire and all kinds of dangerous things. The fan man seemed pretty confident that the wires would hold just fine until tomorrow but I wonder if he really understands that my enormous ceiling fan is precariously hanging from them…
It’s been a month of crazy things around here. Last week the drain in the floor of the basement clogged and we had a bit of flooding followed by a hefty bill to unclog the drain. The week before the washer broke due to a certain someone’s little stocking that got stuck in the pump. This cute little sock cost us a pretty penny:
Please let this be the end of weird, expensive home repairs!
You guys could write a book about all the interesting (?) repairs you’ve had to pay for at your house – but the fan free-fall is probably the most bizarre one yet!! So thankful no one was underneath when it took the plunge!
Our Kitchen ceiling light decided to fall down one day…after bringing light to the room for almost 3 years. Thankfully, we were not in the kitchen when it happened but we still haven’t installed the new one…we need to do that. I think I am nervous that it will fall down again. I hope your repair is not that expensive.