I noticed on Tuesday that the fence between our house and Whiskey Tango-ville had a big gap. Well, since I did not want to recreate the scene from a Christmas Story where the Bumpeses’ dogs were running rampant over the Christmas dinner I had to shore up the gap. The problem was that this time it was because of the tree growing at the end of our garden. It started growing there when we moved in and I let it go. It would be nice to have a nice new healthy tree giving us some privacy. The tree, however, found the fence to be in the way so it moved the fence. The ground is too hard to go digging any new post holes so for now I have a spare piece of wood spanning the gap with a bungie cord keeping it in place. We’ll have to see what we can do once the Spring comes around.
We’ve been in our place for almost 8 years now. When we moved in the dishwasher should have been replaced. It was not. Each year we said that we should replace it. We did not. The racks started falling apart and we should have replaced the dishwasher. We did not. Finally, it began to leak a few weeks ago and so Dad and I went to Lowe’s and picked up a new one. We went from a cream colored one to a stainless steel face and now there are two more appliances that are stainless steel and two that are not. When it comes time for us to put it on the market then it will be time to do the other two so that everything matches.
I did not get a photo of what the pipes under the sink looked like before our plumber re-plumbed the whole thing but they looked terrible. Now they are nice and new and much better looking. We had him do that because we also replaced the garbage disposal. Here is a bit of the before.
This is the piping that was taken out from beneath the sink.
