No Hot Water?

We have not had hot water for a month, give or take a few days. It's bothersome. Especially when the excuse is, "we're cleaning the pipes." Every year? A whole month for pipe cleaning? All over the city? Puh-lease.There's got to be another excuse. I'm begining to think cultural norm, springtime rite of passage, or (sigh) just another moment for Father to personally teach me that I'm selfish and to look outside myself.

So today, when I got home and accidentally turned the handle on to the hot water side (it's an 11-mo habit)... and saw this >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I lost it a little bit.
Pipe cleaning?
(Pun-iful side note: I like the kind of pipe cleaners we use for arts and crafts. This is a different kind of pipe cleaning. Clearly.)

The water we had during the winter was both hot hot hot, and posessed a lovely clear color. Definitely not this rusty, cold-ish stuff coming out of the tap at the moment.
Lately we have been boiling water on the stove to wash dishes and I have busted the breaker to everything electric in our apartment multiple times because the tiny electric shower head that we borrowed to give us slightly warmer than ice cold water uses massive amounts of electricity every time I run the water longer than 1.5 minutes.
To say I'm looking forward to hot running water again is understating quite a bit!

In the same post I do have to say... Thank you, Father, for running water. :)