The First 10,000, And My Chirpy Little Plumber's Helper

I noticed this morning when I opened my journal that my sitemeter count was 10,001.  Wow!

Our weather today was gorgeous!  Sunny, breezy, and in the 60s.  We're expecting showers tonight, though, but I can't complain.  We really do need the rain.

Had a very nice day at home.  Eler Beth was chirpy all day, and Andrew came home with a 17-page assignment that he has to do on Access.  None of our computers currently have Access (although I could have sworn that one of them used to!), so I downloaded a free trial.  I hope it works for him, or he'll have to just do it at school.

I visited a dozen journals this evening, reading and commenting.  I will get to more tomorrow. 

I had to get a piece of pipe-thingy-with-nuts-and-a-ring on it to replace one that was leaking, for our bathroom (where the water pipe connects to the faucet in the tub).  I made the mistake of going to Lowes first because I came to it first.  I have always said that Home Depot is better than Lowes for everything except lumber, but I thought I'd give them a try.  I found a Plumbing Dept. person (a lead person, no less) to ask her for help in finding what I needed, and she had no idea what it was.  She did look...and look...and look, all the while wondering what size it was.  I kept thinking, "why don't you have a tape measure attached to your belt or in a little apron like the Home Depot people do?"  Usually I would know the size because I or Thomas would have measured it, but I guess neither of us was thinking right last night when he removed it from the wall.

Well, anyway, I left after thanking her and telling her that I'd just let my husband take care of it.  Not.  I went to Home Depot.  I asked the first guy I saw near the plumbing area.  He took a look at it and told me that it was homemade.  Then he found out what size it was by screwing it onto a 5/8" piece of pipe.  He found what he thought would work, then he consulted with two other employees who agreed that it was homemade and that we'd have to duplicate it ourselves.  He got me everything I needed and then told me exactly how to cut the pipe, screw on the nuts and the ring, and even advised that I'd need to make sure not to leave any burs when I sanded it down.  I didn't bother telling him that I wasn't going to do it, my husband was.  I rather liked being talked to like I knew something about plumbing!

I sincerely and fervently thanked him for his help.  As we walked off Eler Beth said, "Looks like I'll be cutting some pipe tonight."  (She always does that type of thing with/for Thomas.)  I saw the salesguy smile.  Then she said, "You were right, Mom, Home Depot is better than Lowes!"

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