March Madness

                      

   March is nearly gone and spring hasn’t sprung.  It’s cold and snowy.  Still finding a few things to do.

  

     The little under-the-sink water heater developed a leak.  Note:  when doing leak-detection exercises, follow the wet UP, up until you get to dry.  That’s easy to say after you have fixed the leak twice and it still leaks.  I thought the leak was in the fittings.  Note the clever way of handling the leak—cottage cheese container with two small holes punched near the rim, paper clips, thread and safety pin.  Undo the safety pin to take the cup out to empty it.  Just remember to empty it.

     The leak was in a diaphragm inside the heater.  Unfixable I think.  Two water heaters later, I installed a new one.  The first one I ordered did not have an adjustable thermostat.  A water heater is needed here under the kitchen sink because the big water heater is about 50 feet away.  You waste a lot of water trying to get warm water.

 

      The new heater requested an electrical disconnect.  So the fancy $20 box at upper left is the disconnect.  The big box to the right is the heater. The disconnect takes up more space than the heater.  The heater works great.

 

     Here it is in its new home with all the under sink impedimenta.

 

      When the weather is warm enough, I take on the nasty task of painting louvered closet doors.  With a brush.  Should have used spray cans.  Lesson learned, don’t use louvered closet doors. 

 

 

 

      Hanging the doors should have taken two or three hours.  It stretched over two days because I had to stop and go to barbershop.  I finished on Friday in time to go to McCook and sing.

    Here are the McCook guys with their “Lida Rose” singing the “Will I Ever Tell You?” counter melody.

     The feature quartet, scheduled to land in Denver from Kentucky /Ohio at 10:30 a.m., landed at 4 p.m. and got to McCook at 8:20 p.m.  They took the stage at 8:35 p.m. 

     Well, we were to put the show on twice more in Colby on Saturday.  Mother Nature arranged to have I 70 closed from Denver to Colby on Saturday.  Snow, blowing snow, cold temperatures, led to the cancellation.  How to do a make up performance?  It’s pretty expensive to ship four guys from Ohio to Colby.    

 

    But then we can’t just call it quilts.