Shower :  Re-invisioned.
Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle

With a considerably Reduced bank balance, and materials available for Re-use, Ruby's family has decided to Re-cylce their thinking process on how to provide a shower for the family during the Re-novation.

Saturday Morning, early:
Step one in the right direction.  DH goes To Town for provisions.  Chips, soda, milk, cereal, sandwich meat, bacon.  A few additional building supplies available at The Farm Store.
Step two:  DH cheerfully wakes up the family and assigns jobs. 
    Aspiring Chef DD#2 will be in charge of cooking breakfast and providing food, snacks and drinks for the day. 
   DS#2 will be in search of the sub-crawl space access point.  More on this later.
   Ruby will be in charge of trying to contain the mess, and remembering what order the work should be done in.
   DH is in Charge.

DS#2 isn't even aware that there is a secret access panel to the sub-crawl space in the bottom of the old coat closet.  The closet is soon to be demolished for the Master Bath anyway, and so has been cleared of the first layer of useful stuff.  What remains is the useless stuff, and the unsure stuff.  His mission is to empty the closet to find a small plywood panel in the floor that will allow him access.  Most people have probably never heard of a sub-crawl space.  They may have heard of a sub-basement, which is a basement under a basement.  It's not to be confused with a pub-crawl, where the drinkers walk, or otherwise make their way, from one pub to another without the aid of  automobiles.  Well, a sub-crawl space is more of a sub-set of a crawl space.  It's more of a math or geometry term than the other terms.  It would take a long time to explain clearly, but just so you understand that the area under the shower and the closet is a tiny, short, spidery, dank, damp, dirt bottomed, cracked-up-stone walled, hole below progressibly rotted floor joists and the hole in the closet floor is a short cut (a worm hole, if you will) to getting to the shower plumbing.

A lot of the past night was spent with head scratching and trying to remember IF there is a shut off valve for the shower and where it might be.  This involved an opportunity for Ruby to tell stories about the plumbing woes experienced by the house over the last 40 documented years.  Sure that there were shut off valves installed the last time the pipes froze and burst under the floor, Ruby continues to encourage DS#2 to follow the pipes.  All the while DH was trying his best to remember any of this, and not finding those memories.

Keep in mind that some of the family's favorite movies recently have been Hugo and City of Ember....

If the family can't find the shut off valves, the whole house water supply will have to be shut off for hours while new shut-offs are installed.....

oooh-weeee-ooooo