Beth is gone, she has an alumni concert in Plainwell tomorrow and we decided it would be best if the kids and I don’t go. Maybe we should have. I decided it was time to change the filter in the water softener so I shut off the main valve, replaced the filter, and re-opened the valve, at which time it started spewing water from the stem. An un-isolatable leak. I managed to get the spewing slowed down and called the plumbing listing in the phone book with the 24-hour emergency listing. So I had a plumber here again tonight to fix the valve. Which took him about 30 seconds, if that. I felt like an idiot but maybe I should have. Like I know how to adjust packing.