Going to bed last night I went in the bathroom and there was a vigorous stream of water running across the floor. Stepped in it and it was hot. It was coming from behind the shower wall where the shower comes out. It must have just started because in the minute or two it took me to get to the hot water cutoff at the heater the bathroom floor was covered. If it had happened 20 mins later it would have flooded the whole house while I was asleep. I also burned the back of two fingers on the exhaust pipe from the heater when I turned the cutoff lever.
We didn't have hot water this morning until I emptied out the closet behind the shower wall and cut off the hot water at the shower. Don't even have cold shower, for some reason no cold gets through at all. Probably the shower control valve died. The plumber is coming out first thing tomorrow morning. Could have got them out today at some huge premium price but I can live without a shower for a couple of days.
Good part is I had to completely empty a large bathroom closet and dump everything in the kitchen, which caused the wife to go through it all. Probably got rid of half the stuff in there. I might even get a small section of a shelf for my own stuff out of it.
I was going to work on my blueberry mix today, although I always tell myself that when something happens where I couldn't have worked on a recipe. I do have the blueberry part going OK, just need to add some menthol.