Daley Ponderings

I'll begin by assuaging grandparental fears: no one is hurt!  And now I'll start from the beginning.  As mentioned elsewhere, it is extremely cold out today.  We forgot to open the cupboard under the kitchen sink and thus the pipes froze.

 

I put our space heater on in front of them for a long time to no avail.  Jon is home sick with a cold, so in the afternoon he decided to see what more he could do to thaw the pipes.  (Noah and I were upstairs taking a nap.)  He got the little bathroom space heater and propped it up in the ceiling of the basement.  Then he went upstairs.

 

Jonathan stayed downstairs and decided it might be fun to cut the power cord of the heater with wire cutters.  With a big spark, loud noise, burning plastic, gouged wire cutters and tripping circuit breaker, he learned that it is not so fun after all.  He was scared, and came crying and running upstairs (stopping to climb up the workbench to put the tools away first!)

 

 

If he's going to take after Aunt Janet, I'd rather it be in music or math, or languages, or really anything else...