Leaky New Year

I celebrated New Year's Day with no water. Which, of course, was better than the workers' holiday, spent outside in below-freezing weather, digging an eight-foot-deep hole, and mucking around in the water to fix the water line that had burst and was sending water fountaining up through a crack in the roadway. It looked like a little natural spring (well, as natural as you can get, coming up through asphalt) before they started digging up the road.