It’s Finished! November 29, 2008

Thanksgiving day Granny Grumps and I finished the construction and paining of the sunroom and screened in back porch, and it is wonderful!

We are now “decorating” the back porch,  we have decided on a fishing theme.  We plan to dress it up by using the old rods, reels and lures that I have plus the gray boat bookshelf that I built.  We have hung a shadow box with some old wooden lures that belonged to Evelyn’s daddy and today I built a matching one for some of my lures.  Overall the back porch is gonna be sooooo cute.

A First for PaPa November 10, 2008

At almost 65 years old and I thought I had done everything, but today I did something I have NEVER done before.

Last night Granny Grumps noticed a wet spot on the carpet next to the refrigerator.  After investigating, I found a pin-sized hole in the plastic tube running to the icemaker.   I had been wanting to replace the plastic tube with copper so this seemed like the ideal time.  When I turned off the 1/4inch saddle valve to the icemaker I noticed that the saddle valve had crushed the 3/4-inch line, so I decided to replace all the ¾ inch service lines.

Today I purchased all the supplies and went to work.   The ¼ inch line to the icemaker was a booger to work thru the cabinets, but with Granny Grump’s help we got it finished.  Then I went to work on the ¾ inch line.

No problems as I cut the sections and did the dry fitting.  It was looking good until I tried to solder the joints.  Every one of them leaked, so I re-did them.  They leaked again, so I redid them…………they leaked again.  I then clobbered the pipes with a wrench and for the first time in a long time I  used the “P” word……………..POOT.  Well really I used some much stronger words.

THEN I CALLED A PLUMBER!