Between us, Jane and I can lift, plumb, kneel, shove, and whatnot—-and we replaced the kitchen water heater. Which is pretty good for a new hip and coming off chemo.
We’re being thankful this year for being here in one piece and making progress. Which in 2020, is a win, no qualifiers, eh?
Good for you girls, I am dealing with a leaky faucet in my kitchen which needs replaced, I think I could do it though I am too worried the one I have to replace it with will need some adjustment to line up with the outgoing pipe. My can-fix-anything Bother in Elk is isolating until things get better so I am just turning the hot water tap off after each use. It is a bit of a hassle but at least I still have hot water. Happy Solstice, Christmas and New Year! I hope the clouds go away so we can see the conjunction! Take care!
P.S. I am impressed you said water heater most people say “hot” water heater, which my x husband, a plumber, said is incorrect since you would not need to heat hot water…
When I was in HS, we moved into a house with steam heating – we don’t know why – and the system was designed for the water to be heated by passing through a coil in the boiler. I think that counts as a “hot water heater”.
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My week started rough: I went out Monday mornign to do errands, and found the car had a flat tire. Got the auto club to send a truck – a tow truck, not the pickup they send for keys and other small stuff. That’s one giant step for a 6-footer, and Too Big short people. Fell getting out the first time (I have to be there so they can get through the parking gate), and leg muscles are still complaining, but much less, this evening. Two new tires, because radials, and lucky that they had two of a kind in stock.
The two of you are my heroes.
Merry Christmas!
(applause and cheering!) I agree with BGrandrath. You guys are my heroes! We are nearing the end of this annus horribilis, and it can’t happen soon enough. So happy to hear the both of you are winning through. Hang in there!
I would love to have an “instant hot” water heater, but chez moi is sitting on a great big slab of recycled inland sea floor (limestone) here, so you can guess what our water’s like (hard as a rock!). Unfortunately, unless you’ve got some kind of water demineralization gizmo ahead of it, they don’t last long here — a couple years at max.
Season’s greetings to all the salads here at the Salad Bar. Hope you and yours make it through this mess OK, and have a safe, happy, healthy new year!
My parents had one, and it made it through 10 or so years before needing to be replaced. It wasn’t getting the softened water – that went through the water heater, and the instant heat was for drinking water, filtered after coming out of the well. Tasted good, even if you needed a cold chisel to get it out of the faucet. (My parents’ hard-water joke.)
Yay! I’m up next. Where’s the line?
S’pose it’ll be after my Moh’s surgery for a squamous cell carcinoma over my left eyebrow Thursday. But in a way, the two go together.
Oops, Wednesday, not Thursday.
What next? Kilauea is now erupting on the big island of Hawaii.
Yeah; we just discovered that this morning. Apparently with very little warning a vent opened in the old crater last night and began filling it with lava, immediately followed by an earthquake (only 4.4, shaken not stirred). All the webcams the park service has set up to monitor the crater area seem to be offline, and all Big Island residents have been asked to stay inside, as the lava produced a big cloud of steam and ash. More on this breaking story as it develops. 🙂
eta: It looks like most of the cameras have defaulted to static images after being overwhelmed by people wanting a look at the activity. The one camera I was able to access showed a big steam or smoke or ash plume coming up from the crater, but no views of the lava lake that is supposedly forming.
Because 2020 wasn’t done with us yet 😛
I think you two could get the dinner out of the air filters!
Have a very happy holiday season, and a wonderful new year!
How are the koi doing? Did you get some help winterproofing the pond?
Happy Solstice, the solar year is actually over even if the calendar year has a few weeks to go.
It always impresses me what the two of you manage to do. I just have to look at a screwdriver and things break. Have a great holiday season.
I found this little article about books that grab you: https://www.tor.com/2020/12/23/list-books-that-grab-you/?utm_source=Feedburner%3A+Frontpage+Partial+RSS+Feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torcom%2FFrontpage_Partial+%28Tor.com+Frontpage+Partial+-+Blog+and+Stories%29
In the SciFi section, her seventh selection. Couldn’t agree more.
Good link, WOL, I picked up two more books for the TBR pile from that post.
As some people “jump the gun”, as my sister & I have done, Let me wish all the salads as merry a Christmas as one can have in 2020, under the circumstances. We do have vaccinations and a new Administration to look forward to.
I too hope everyone has a lovely set of holidays of their choice, filled with peace, health and relaxation!
Paul: hope your procedure Wednesday went well.
Indeed! Mele Kalikimaka and Haouli Makahiki Hou! (other rubbish of 2020 notwithstanding)
Merry Christmas, or the holiday of your choice, to all!
Happy Christmas to all.
merry Christmas to all the salads who celebrate it, and happy Friday to all!
May we all know peace and celebrate with joy!
I don’t suppose either you or Jane have time and could be persuaded to post holiday pictures? Your decoration always beats ours hollow, and you have more cats to contend with knocking over things (and an occasionally mischievous house elf!)
Turkey and stuffing has gone in the oven for later consumption, with a recipe for potatoes from Diane Duane’s blog and a green salad (not to be confused with the salads in residence). FiL sent a chocolate filled panettone for dessert, so we are well stocked.
Oh, yes, it would be very bad news if the salads in residence became green! (G, D, & R)
My dishwasher sounded broken so I’ve taken it out of the rotation and been washing everything by hand the last month. I have various nagging plumbing that needs seen to outside of the toilet which I managed to youtube my way through somehow. But I’m not having people in my house at the moment so I’ll just have to be ok with the waiting. I’m not too far removed from a kitchen flood during a prior attempt at doings something that was supposed to be simple. Anyone who can pull off indoor repairs on their own has my admiration right now.
Hope yall are having a happy Holidays amongst all the Things going on.
Mikey and I hope you had a marvelous holiday with hope for a stellar new year.
CJ and Jane, you ladies are amazing! A few things got fixed while Walter was in hospital this summer … very unorthodox repairs LOL, but … the E600 is still holding inside the toilet tank, so … 🙂 After 6 weeks of some horrid swelling, giant red itchy and oozing welts that stumped 3 doctors, Walter is much better, and we spent a quiet peaceful Christmas with plenty of phone and internet company. Our best presents: Vaccines on board for our ER PA in NM, and for our beloved son-in-law who got his Christmas eve morning. Wishing everyone here Holiday Light and Love and Blessings, with peace, safety and Joy for the coming year.
That reminds me: CJ, I hope you and Jane are towards the top of the rotation for the vaccine!
For anyone wondering, I got a letter from BCS. He’s had a lot of problems since COVID knocked his plans for a new house galley-west; his subsidies got reduced to the point where they were no longer covering his living expenses. Most of his utilities got shut off at one point or another (he has no internet, which is why he stopped posting) and he’s hoping federal assistance will keep a roof over his head. He’s trying to connect with various local charities for help, but relying on other people to help him run errands hasn’t been very successful. Poor guy!
Thanks for the news, Chondrite, I was very worried about him.
That also explains why he’s not reacting to emails, if he has no Internet.
If you answer him, please let him know I thought and worried about him and wish him well.
Thinking nobody would miss you if you dropped out of touch would be very depressing, on top of all the other difficulties – he doesn’t need more reasons to feel depressed, so he needs to know some people here did miss him.
I can’t think of much else I can do to help from this far away, with no digital communication routes. I’ll try to think harder, and see if I can find his paper mail address.
Hanneke, he said he sent you a copy of the letter I got, but it is probably hung up in COVID-related postal snerls. If I could be sure he would get it, I’d send him an Amazon CARE package, just so he would get some nice things for the holidays o_O I have his phone number and tried to call, but his cell was one of the things that got cut off. I wonder if a prepaid cell phone would work as a gift.
I received my letter from BCS today, and I’ve tried to send him some Instacart groceries and cat supplies from the nearest Kroger. I’m not sure that’ll work, as my credit card is registered in NL for euros, not for dollars in the US: I got two order update messages in the same minute, the first one saying my order delivery was cancelled, and the second saying my order was confirmed for today… I’ll have to wait and see if I get another update that they’ve collected it and are delivering. If not, I guess it didn’t work. The Visa card app says they’ve reserved 0€ for Kroger supermarkets in the US, so that’s a bit strange.
I’d thought before about sending him a bit of money over PayPal as a last chance to reach him, but without Internet access he wouldn’t be able to access that either.
I’ll send him a letter over the post myself. He said he’d misplaced Joe’s address, and didn’t have Tommie’s or WOL’s or Raesean’s, so without a phone and without Internet access he can’t let anyone else here know how he’s doing, so those he can send letters to will have to relay the message.
I think getting him a prepaid phone (for a carrier that works in Houston TX) would be a lovely gift!
Being able to contact social services, the doctor and the vet himself would make a big difference in not having to depend completely on the aid of strangers.
Chondrite, thank you very much for posting what news you have from BCS… sounds like grim news and tough going for him. I hope he indeed can connect with a local, social services agency. Texas is a tough place to get services as the state has rejected many expansions permitted by the federal government and consciously implements others in a non-helpful way. My day job is being a specialist in public benefits for Boston’s community action (social services) agency. I wish he lived here in (yes, liberal=”helpful”) Massachusetts but most benefits are implemented/interpreted state by state.
Thank you, Chondrite!