Plumbing

This morning my community choir had a bit of a retreat due to missing a bunch of practices over the winter.  It was fun and novel to be meeting in the morning instead of evening, and afterward we enjoyed a potluck lunch and fellowship.  Our concert is April 13, so we are feeling the crunch!

This afternoon, I tackled a project that I’ve been putting off pretty much since we moved into this house a bit more than a year ago.  About a week after we moved in, the garbage disposal gave out on us.  We can (and have) live without one, but they are really handy.  Also over the past year, the brackets holding the kitchen faucet to the sink have rusted clean off.  It was a cheap-o faucet, so I’m not surprised.  The spray hose didn’t work either.

Instead of putting in a similar boring old kitchen faucet, I went e-bay hunting and bought this pretty thing.  (I didn’t pay that much for it!).  It looks huge compared to what we had before, but we will be able to get pots and my husband’s head under it (he sometimes washes his hair in the sink).

Being the resident handy person, I sacrificed my afternoon to lying uncomfortably on my back, wedged under the cabinet.  The faucet took awhile, since I needed to scrub all the old gook off, and knock off a bunch of rust on the cast iron sink.  The disposal went in surprisingly very easily, and this one is soooo much quieter than our previous one.

Now we just need to replace the garage door opener, and I think all our home appliances will be working again. (Knock on wood!!)