Happiest of birthdays to DR Edi!
Thanks, Ginny! Good luck with your furnace!
We just had a bit of good luck, sort of. We were coming back home from the vet and the water meter inspector was at a nearby house. Our water bill was 3x the usual amount last month and the city wouldn't even come over and look at it. You have to have a special tool to even open the cover now. So this guy opened it up and helped us figure out the problem. We will probably have to replace a big water line, but at least we know what we're dealing with and we have other plumbing jobs that need doing, so maybe we'll be able to get them all taken care of.
Between that and the fact that our vet recommended that we see a specialist about my love cat, Bailey, who may possibly need surgery, I'm glad we didn't decide to celebrate our birthdays in an expensive way!