there arose such a clatter...

At about 2 AM on Friday morning, John woke up because he thought he'd heard a loud shattering noise--but he didn't see anything (and I was sleeping soundly) so he assumed he'd dreamed it. The next morning, I was almost fully ready before John noticed that the corner of our ceiling had collapsed!! Plaster was EVERYWHERE. In the laundry basket, on the convector, bookshelves, lamps--it really was incredible (actually, given how far spread out the stuff was--it's perhaps more incredible that it took us so long to notice it!

Evidently our neighbors above had not had their convector properly maintained...so it leaked and filled our ceiling up with water. Booo. Thankfully our building manager called in a contractor who came out immediately, stopped the leak and then replaced the drywall today (woo hoo no more plaster in one area of the condo!!)

(I just really like our view out the window of the cute little DC row houses!!)