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bathroom remodel: day 4

One phrase describes today and that is “plumbing disaster”. Of course the way plumbing projects usually go around here, I’m probably being redundant with my phrasing. Actually things went pretty well up to a point–all of Brian’s soldered joints worked, so that was definitely a plus. When he turned on …

bathroom remodel: day 3

Get used to it. I suspect you’ll be reading these posts until the end of October. Today wasn’t as productive as I’d hoped. Of course, I’m always way too hopeful about getting stuff done. Plus, we slept in this morning, so we got a later start than we should have. …

bathroom remodel: day 2

Today went so-so. Brian had an appointment to go to in the late morning, so we didn’t really get started until late afternoon. And by started, I mean we mostly pondered how to accomplish certain tasks that need to be done. We also managed to finish up the tub stuff …

bathroom remodel: day 1

Today started the remodel of our main bathroom. Brian and I are off work for about the next week so we can work on this project. Being the only bathroom in the house with bathing facilities, this required that we accomplish a few things today–namely installing the new tub. We …

peppers

I have found pepper nirvana and it is called ground chipotle pepper. It makes everything taste good. Especially bean dips. This evening, Brian and I consumed a recipe of hummus containing some of the aforementioned ingredient. Any time Brian eats a half a recipe of bean dip, you know it’s …