Home improvement

Must be feeling OK again since yesterday I decided to take on a long delayed home improvement project. We had a kitchen faucet knob that had a very slow leak. I thought it needed a new washer but it turned out to be a washerless faucet so there was no way to fix the the thing. I ended up picking up a whole new faucet set only to discover that our sink had apparently been salvaged from elsewhere and installed in such a way that I needed to remove the entire sink to change the faucet set! That was OK since we needed to do a counter top repair anyway -- turned out to be a bigger repair than I supected but I got it done, replaced the faucet, added shut off valves, and re-installed the sink. Looks pretty good but now I have a bit more work to do on the countertop repair. A satifying project with lots of assistance from James.

Speaking of James, we took him out to Ruttger's this afternoon for a swim. He just can't get enough of the water and has lately taken to swimming underwater in the bathtub. We thought/hoped it might tire him out enough for a nap but to no avail. Let's see, what else is new? We did managed to get our "Christmas cards" done today so they should go in the mail tomorrow.../dps