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Let's Try This Again

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 Farewell to the trailer.  She was doing well, but in December we had two floods.  The first one, we left for the weekend and left the water dripping in the bathroom to make sure it didn't freeze.  Somehow, the plug fell into the drain and blocked it, causing it to fill up and spill over.  We got that one cleaned up - water all over the floor, in the heat ducts, under furniture, etc., etc.  Then, a few days later, the furnace stopped working, the water pipes froze, and the toilet valve cracked.  Once the water thawed, we were flooded again.  And now the furnace doesn't work. We fixed the toilet and made it through the end of the semester with space heaters, but it's time to give the trailer a rest.  We towed it home before Christmas.  One of the art professors at Snow College just built 2 small townhome-style apartments a block from the school.  We rented one of them. It's two stories, living area and kitchen on the first floor, bed...