What are you doing today?

Alli said:
Having company for the first time today. And it looks like the weather is going to cooperate, so we’ll be able to sit poolside, or go swimming. Got plenty of chips and dips, and I made lasagna for dinner.
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Chips, lasagna and a pool? What time should we all get there?

Gardening all morning. Tree stump removal for a change. Difficult as it’s right in the fence line.
Watched the F1 highlights this afternoon.
Work later. Dinner first.
 
Was planning to head to the Botanical Garden. It was a madhouse despite the cool, windy weather. Skipped for now.

Went on a small walk to Dunkin' and thought maybe I was overdressed. The wind makes it seems like temp is only in the 30s instead of near 50. After laundry and some reading, planning on getting in a long-ish walk to make up for loss time this week.
 
Figuring out what I want to do about a Delta 600 shower valve that won’t shut all the way off anymore. Probably going to try and install a renovation kit and keep my fingers crossed that I don’t end up in a situation where I can’t turn the water back onto the house because I don’t know what I’m doing.
ronntaylor said:
Went on a small walk to Dunkin' and thought maybe I was overdressed. The wind makes it seems like temp is only in the 30s instead of near 50. After laundry and some reading, planning on getting in a long-ish walk to make up for loss time this week.
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When I moved out here there was one Dunkin’ Donuts in the area. It never occurred to me that they don’t exist here. It shut down. Years later , now we have them again. BUT, having been away from DD’s for so long, I didn’t realize they don’t actually make donuts in the stores anymore. So we go once or twice a year, but I really miss when DD had that second D in the name, and actually had fresh donuts most of the day.
 
Cmaier said:
Figuring out what I want to do about a Delta 600 shower valve that won’t shut all the way off anymore. Probably going to try and install a renovation kit and keep my fingers crossed that I don’t end up in a situation where I can’t turn the water back onto the house because I don’t know what I’m doing.
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This exact thing happened to me. Weekend plumbing can be extra dangerous, because of availability of "backup" if you get to a bad situation.

What are you doing today?

Been trying to get hold of my Dad all day. Just heard from him. His power has been out for 30 hours. Lost some fencing. Power is back on now.
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o_O
 
DT said:
This exact thing happened to me. Weekend plumbing can be extra dangerous, because of availability of "backup" if you get to a bad situation.

What are you doing today?

Been trying to get hold of my Dad all day. Just heard from him. His power has been out for 30 hours. Lost some fencing. Power is back on now.
talkedabout.com talkedabout.com

o_O
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You probably just changed my mind - i think i may call a professional, even though it looks like it should be an easy job
 
Cmaier said:
When I moved out here there was one Dunkin’ Donuts in the area. It never occurred to me that they don’t exist here. It shut down. Years later , now we have them again. BUT, having been away from DD’s for so long, I didn’t realize they don’t actually make donuts in the stores anymore. So we go once or twice a year, but I really miss when DD had that second D in the name, and actually had fresh donuts most of the day.
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I go to DD despite the donuts. Haven't been good in forever. I usually get their hash browns and a chai. Their so-called coffee is as bad a McD's.
 
ronntaylor said:
I go to DD despite the donuts. Haven't been good in forever. I usually get their hash browns and a chai. Their so-called coffee is as bad a McD's.
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I don’t drink coffee. My wife was a Starbucks manager for awhile and has terrible things to say about DD coffee. She also hates Starbucks coffee, though. Peet’s is apparently her minimum acceptable coffee.

When I was in college in upstate NY, a bunch of us crowded into my friend’s old Chevy Nova at 1am to look for donuts. I was driving for some reason (i may have been the only sober one). I drove to the nearest DD, and it was closed for some reason. So I drove to another. It was closed. I happened to see a cop car and joked “I’m going to follow this guy. He’s gotta go to a donut shop.”

So I follow this guy toward Vermont for a few miles, and sure enough, he stops at a DD. We are all hysterical. I go inside with my friends, and the guy behind the counter looks at me and says “are you Cliff?”

Now I’m freaked out. Turns out that a couple of friends who had stayed back at the dorm had figured out which DD was still open (this is in the days before everyone had the web, so he must have used the yellow pages and called around), and had phoned in additional donuts they wanted us to bring back.

Not the world’s funniest story, but it’s stuck with me for a lot of years. :)
 
Cmaier said:
Figuring out what I want to do about a Delta 600 shower valve that won’t shut all the way off anymore. Probably going to try and install a renovation kit and keep my fingers crossed that I don’t end up in a situation where I can’t turn the water back onto the house because I don’t know what I’m doing.
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First thing I did when I bought this place after looking more critically at the plumbing in the kitchen (which is over a crawlspace, with the pipe feed to the kitchen laid along inside of a northfacing wall), was have a plumber put in an extra set of shutoffs in the cellar to the kitchen pipes. My nightmare before I did that was imagining what it would be like to be changing out a kitchen faucet and have the hokey-looking and ancient shut-offs under the kitchen sink just fail. Ditto if a pipe froze along that wall at the juncture of main house over the cellar and that cold-vulnerable kitchen.
 
ronntaylor said:
I go to DD despite the donuts. Haven't been good in forever. I usually get their hash browns and a chai. Their so-called coffee is as bad a McD's.
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Some years ago I was with friends in Connecticut and one of them, the local resident, insisted that before we started out our day doing things that we had to stop at DD, that they made the BEST coffee.... So we did, and each of us got a coffee. I took a couple of sips, thought, "eh?" and shrugged. It certainly was not my idea of great coffee! For that matter, I am not a fan of Starbucks, either.
 
Clix Pix said:
Some years ago I was with friends in Connecticut and one of them, the local resident, insisted that before we started out our day doing things that we had to stop at DD, that they made the BEST coffee.... So we did, and each of us got a coffee. I took a couple of sips, thought, "eh?" and shrugged. It certainly was not my idea of great coffee! For that matter, I am not a fan of Starbucks, either.
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When I was drinking coffee black I sometimes liked DD because it seemed like a light, maybe Central American coffee and I can be in the mood for that even today.

But generally these days I do put nonfat milk in and 2/3 milk, 1/3 coffee... so I usually prefer a more robust brew, which unfortunately in fast food terms means like when traffic is slow and the brew is on the "bold but OLD" side. I quit buying McD's coffee years ago around here for that reason.
 
Cmaier said:
You probably just changed my mind - i think i may call a professional, even though it looks like it should be an easy job
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If it was just a simple remove and replace, it wouldn't be too terrible (though sometimes the location can be tough), but depending on your water content and the age of everything, you might get into stuck/frozen/corroded pipes, fittings, etc., wind up spending hours on something that should take 30 minutes. I've also noticed plumbing tends to be fixing problem A, that winds up creating problems B, C and D that involve water. o_O

Of course, then if you do totally F- something up, then you're likely left with the water turned off to the whole house for a day - or longer - and that is not pleasant. :confused:
 
DT said:
If it was just a simple remove and replace, it wouldn't be too terrible (though sometimes the location can be tough), but depending on your water content and the age of everything, you might get into stuck/frozen/corroded pipes, fittings, etc., wind up spending hours on something that should take 30 minutes. I've also noticed plumbing tends to be fixing problem A, that winds up creating problems B, C and D that involve water. o_O

Of course, then if you do totally F- something up, then you're likely left with the water turned off to the whole house for a day - or longer - and that is not pleasant. :confused:
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In this case it’s not a cartridge. I need to remove the handle, remove a collar, a gasket, and a ball with a rod on the end of it. Then remove two springs with rubber gaskets from little holes. Then reassemble with slightly different (and simpler) parts. Hopefully nothing too bad in there, since not a lot of friction fitting parts, but my eyesight may cause the spring/gasket thing to be a pain.
 
Finally after 4 months after my wife's shoulder replacement Surgery she was able to ride the beast again. she could only handle three miles one mile to see our granddaughter then to the trek store then the grocery store and back. today she did 5 miles we rode to a Chinese place for lunch and then home 3 miles. she was really worn out but I was pretty proud of her. I had already done 30 so she was lazy today :D Hope to take her riding every day and she will improve. I put some soft tires on the bike so it is not has bumpy and kept the speed down and watched all the small bumps as they can hurt her shoulder.
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Put out an Easter egg hunt for the kids and building Lego from their Easter presents. Nothing religious about today in our house, just a nice family day. I’ll probably cook a roast later and eat loads of chocolate.
 
Cmaier said:
Figuring out what I want to do about a Delta 600 shower valve that won’t shut all the way off anymore. Probably going to try and install a renovation kit and keep my fingers crossed that I don’t end up in a situation where I can’t turn the water back onto the house because I don’t know what I’m doing.


When I moved out here there was one Dunkin’ Donuts in the area. It never occurred to me that they don’t exist here. It shut down. Years later , now we have them again. BUT, having been away from DD’s for so long, I didn’t realize they don’t actually make donuts in the stores anymore. So we go once or twice a year, but I really miss when DD had that second D in the name, and actually had fresh donuts most of the day.
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How did it go? Shower valves, at least the ones I have messed with are made to be slightly disassembled and parts replace on the front side, without having to do anything drastic, like ripping up the wall or soldiering.

Had a valve in the shower in our basement (previous house) where with a single valve for both hot and cold water, no hot water would come out. There was a kit to repair it, but it would be highly advised to have a decent manual, set of instructions or find a YouTube how to video.
 
Huntn said:
How did it go? Shower valves, at least the ones I have messed with are made to be slightly disassembled and parts replace on the front side, without having to do anything drastic, like ripping up the wall or soldiering.

Had a valve in the shower in our basement (previous house) where with a single valve for both hot and cold water, no hot water would come out. There was a kit to repair it, but it would be highly advised to have a decent manual, set of instructions or find a YouTube how to video.
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I got it working. The trickiest bit was getting the tiny little springs and seats back in there - hard for me to see what I was doing. Luckily the dome came off easily - that was my main concern. I kept reading horror stories where people would rotate the dome and the valve would rotate with it, tearing the tiny little feeder pipes.
 
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