Dodged another repair bullet. Opened the line (where it was held with pipe clamps) and used the turkey baster to take some liquid out of the sump pump. Clear, not full of algae. I put a mix of bleach and water back in, and watched it drip slowly outside. To check the outside end of the line I took one of those curved metal picks that comes with the fancy nutcracker and picked some mud and stuff out. I suspect a wasp or bug plugged the line. It runs up into the attic from the AC closet, and then across the attic and down the outside wall, to drain down near the ground next to the heat pump box. There was only a drip coming out, and I realized as I poked at it that the pipe had a crusty end. Once I knocked that off the pump ran briefly then turned off, as it is supposed to. Whew. I'd hate to have burned out that wonderful little pump. (And I'd have felt really stupid having a repair person come out for such a simple solution!)

It has looked like rain all day. It's supposed to rain later in the week. Meanwhile, it is humid, and the warm room here has resulted in my computer fan turning on and off all day. So I knew I had to at least cool off this room a bit. Computers don't like to run in very warm rooms.

Twice this week I've had to sit down in the sewing room and reattach the zipper button on trousers I've been wearing. Kind of has me wanting to do more than sew buttons in that room. I have a window in my office with mini blinds that I'm thinking about changing. Put cafe curtains over the bottom sash and run the blinds just on the top half of the window. It would make it easier to open and close the window.

SRS