Leak

When we arrived home, the first thing Barb did was turn on the water.  The second thing she did was message all her friends and family to tell them that she had arrived safe back in Canada.  We were both up until 3 am.  Barb was in the living room and I was in the television room.  When Barb decided it was time to go to bed, she came into the kitchen to get me and she stepped in a puddle of water.  There was a leak in a pipe under the sink.  Originally, Barb thought it was in the drain pipe because that had happened last year.  But when we looked under the sink we found it was leaking from a connection in the cold water pipe.  Barb quickly went and turned off the water again. Since it was Saturday night, we thought we would have another expensive plumber's visit on Sunday.  But on Sunday Barb disconnected the pipe that was causing the problem and brought it to the Home Hardware store in New Hamburg and bought a replacement and then when she put the new one on, the leak was gone.  She was told that it was probably the washer in the connection that had gotten old and brittle and that was why it was leaking.  So there was no need for an expensive plumber's visit.  In fact, we would have been embarrassed if a plumber had come in and solved the problem so easily.