liz's laundry

• tunic/dress: uniqlo
• earrings: icing
• belt: h&m
• legging shorts: f21

plumbing like a boss

people tell you when you buy a house, "it's always something..." as in, always something friggin going wrong.  this week's issue - the cold water pipe under my bathroom sink decided to spring [past tense: sprung? sprang? springed?] a pinhole leak in the screw-on joint.  verrry silently hissing a mist spray down the inside of the cupboard, down the pipe, along the rafters, and straight onto the basement floor.  now fortunately my basement is unfinished and pipes are accessible and visible. 

but holy crap it must have been leaking for at least 2 days.  cos how did i find out?  i opened the cupboard in search of more hand soap at 9:45pm and water dribbled out on my foot.  cursing commenced.  when does home depot close?  10pm.  how long does it take me to get there?  about 8 minutes.  how long did i spend looking at a plumbing book/the internet/freaking out?  about 30.  needless to say, i went to bed that night knowing the pipe was leaking and there wasnt a damn thing i could do about it. 

after work the next day i drove my unhappy self to the depot and said help help!  armed with the appropriate stuffs - a "sharkbite" valve [self-sealing so no soldering needed...which was very disappointing], a copper tube cutter, and some sand paper, i returned home to tackle the project at hand.

i managed to find the water shutoff valve after only ..several minutes of tracing pipes along the basement, cut the copper pipe [somewhat neatly] and sand down the edges.  covered in slightly sandy miniscule metal filings and water i discovered... even though the guy told me the flexible portion should be long enough to reattach, it was about a half inch shy.  back to the HD i went, tubing in hand, and stomped down the plumbing aisle.  minutes later, reequipped with the appropriate length flexible tube with the correct ends... i went home, finished my project, and celebrated my small but very cheap plumbing victory! 

fleurs

the snowballs have bloomed!  eat those aphids little lady bug.  but if you bite me, i will not hesitate to smash you like i have your erstwhile brethren. 

happenings, aka the haps

i stumbled across a delightful blog awhile ago, harper's happenings back when mandy was doing hott - high on thrifting thursdays.  even though she stopped the thrift linkup, i keep reading.  mandy's writing is pretty delightful and entertaining [she swears much less than i do] and she manages to keep the OMG MY BABIES ARE THE BEST EVER to a minimum.  also, no religious propaganda shoved in your face.  check it yo.

but my haps.

i gots a new boiler and converted my heat and hot water from oil to natural gas.  i dont necessarily believe in and support the ways that natural gas is harvested/collected/obtained... but its the lesser of two evils at the moment.  slightly.  and its cheaper.

deer isle

two weeks ago i went home for father's day.  in between eating delicious foods and lounging about the house [inside and out] i helped my pops launch his sailboat for the season.  this involved some tidying of the boat, towing it allllll the way around the cove, futzing and putzing about while the boat folk raised the mast and the rigging, and then finally rollin the old girl into the agua.