Sunday Afternoon

I wish I had more to say.  One day drips into another. 

Oh, the kitchen faucet came out.  Well, there is a bit of a story there.  There is a main nut that holds the faucet to the sink.  The nut is, of course, underneath and hard to get at.  But I have the tool for that, and I was able to get it off.  But there is a strange nit there and the water connection bits are too big to fit through the nut.  The fittings were soldered on.  So I think either a pro or a bad amateur put them on.  Why would you not want to get the faucet off? 

My dream was to take the faucet apart and clean it up.  The main nut had a tendency to loosen and that made the faucet a real pain to use.  You couldn't tell from the temperature control lever's position if it was set to full hot or medium temperature.  The hot water is hot here -- yes, I know we are destroying the earth, but hot water is a wonderful thing.

When it was clear it was not going to come out, we did what Barb has been interested in doing for awhile, and that was to get a new one.  The old one is 25 years old and the water causes a lot of mineral buildup, so it was probably time.

That made it easy to get the old out out, just saw off the water pipes and pull it out and toss it into the garden. 

We went off to the store to get a new one.  Barb was freaking about walking past anyone, but we found one that looked ok and wasn't too expensive.  Installation required the water to be turned off.  There are valves at the pipes under the sink.  The valves were very tight and as I turned off the old one, a drip of black gunk came out.  They did shut off and the rest of the installation was pretty easy.

When the water was turned back on both valves have a drip.  I'm going to give them a day to stop dripping.  If not then that will be the next project.  Ball valves are a better way to go and hopefully the old ones will come off the pipe and not break and create a nice leak into the wall.  But, tomorrow is another day.

Otherwise, the weather is still crap -- gray, damp, cool to cold.  I'm ready for the stay at home stuff to be over and the Winter to get out of the way.  Though if the weather was great the stay at home stuff would be more bothersome.

We are going to cook some Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches tonight.  Our large chunk of frozen chuck came out a lot like ground beef but with more texture.  It's in little bits, but should make a nice sandwich.