Well greetings to one and all, children of all ages and whomever the unfortunates are enough to have stumbled on to this link and decided to try reading some of this!!!!!!
It has been some time since last I wrote, but then what is time but a relative item in the grand scheme of things, well not really relative since I always thought that a relative was a brother, sister, cousin, aunt, uncle and I could go on and on but I am sure by now you are getting the idea?????
So since it has been a while there have been a few things I have done or not done or should have done that have been redone, undone, done for fun and so on and so on!!!!!!!
To begin with or not to begin with but at least I have to start someplace and I guess this is as good as any place so I will start here!!!!!! Whew am I glad we are here, well not really here as I am here and you are someplace else, but that is OK because if you were here then we would be talking and I would not be writing this and who knows maybe that would be a better thing?????
But I dally when I should be telling the story....... so the week before fathers day I went to Vancouver for a plumbing job. Seems as though my nephew had a small plumbing problem, well not really a small plumbing problem, more like a major one!!!!! He had no water pressure and the whole house was galvanized pipe. Now galvanized pipe was great in its day, but that day has come and gone. The house was built in 1928 and the plumbing was original which makes that plumbing OLDER THAN ME!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it?? Something older than I am???????
So we started installing new pipe which is all PVC and CPVC, for those of the old school, I do not use copper any more. For me and my temperament it is better if I use glue and cleaner, especially on a hot day as it definitely makes me more mellow!!
After a day and a little bit we were finally ready to turn off the water and connect to the meter. Well it was about this time that MURPHY and his law showed up!! For those of you who don't know about Murphy, Murphy's law states that at any critical time "if it can go wrong it will go wrong" which is exactly what happened. I went out to turn the water off at the city stop at the street and could not get it to move, so my nephew tried and we actually twisted the T-BAR!!!!!!! Well that is not a good thing because that meant if we tried much harder we would break the stop!!!!! and then we got to buy a new meter!!!!! So I called the city of Vancouver water dept. and explained that I was trying to fix the plumbing and could not shut the water off at the meter and could not use my stop. The lady said that somebody would be out with in an hour which meant sometime around noon and I figured that the way most cities work that meant sometime around 5 in the evening..... WELLLLLL the guy was actually early and brought out his "CONAN" T-bar and gave the stop a twist and guess what, well even if you don't guess I am going to tell you. He broke the stop and gave me "THE LOOK" which means OOOOOPS and said well I guess we have to replace this one to which I replied "Yup, if we had broken it we would have bought it" and he just smiled and called and said the crew would be out by 2 and again I said to my self "yeah, right"!!!!
Well, I gotta say that if you ever have a water problem, have it in Vancouver as those guys were there in an hour. They put in a new meter and just for your information, the old meter had been there since 1930 and that is even older than me!!!!!! Well, they put in a new meter and also ran a piece of copper under the side walk just to make it easier for me to tie into the line. So I will say KUDOS to Vancouver water dept. as these guys are really good!!!!
So I started to tie in and finally around 7 I had the bathroom and the water heater done so we could all take showers and do whatever else was required.............
The next day I finished the kitchen, the laundry room and the outside hose bibbs. The funniest part was when one of the kids was taking a shower and the other flushed the toilet and they got all excited because the water in the shower stayed the same temperature and nobody got scalded!!!!!!!
So about 5 PM Friday I left with every one happier than when I had showed up and I headed for Washougal, WA. to see some friends, have something to eat and then head out. Unfortunately I had a little to much ADULT BEVERAGE and ended up spending the night which was actually great because I had breakfast, a great time and then left........
Now I am back where the next story takes place and all is well..... Unfortunately there are no pictures and I should have taken some but I must have had a senior moment so pictures will come with the next story.......
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