Shower & Shed

Last weekend Mike and I finally got an outdoor shed. We had found the one we wanted on sale at OSH over the summer but had to take a rain check. Weeks and weeks later after calling them we finally caught someone who said "We have one, come quick." When Mike got there he ended up getting an additional discount since they didn't call him which was nice. We had had the same brand before so we were able to get it up fairly quickly. Its a smaller one than before since we have such a big garage. It only has to fit the lawn and gardening supplies, not the camping supplies, irrigation fixing supplies, camping gear, spare tire for offroading, etc. It looks pretty good and means our lawn mower can finally leave the patio. Of course the baby thought it was a playhouse so we'll have to get a lock.

After that Mike worked on the media closet door. You'll remember we tried to paint the initial door to save money. It ended up not coming out well and when Mike looked up the price of replacement doors he decided it wasn't worth trying. So he ordered a replacement bi-folding, pre-painted door that arrived pretty quick. The door molding though, needed an updated from the 70s wood trim. With a new miter box (our old one is missing pieces, presumed to be in a box somewhere) Mike hand cut and pieced all the door trim for the media closet so it matched all the other doors in the house. He has to paint them still but at least their up. We still have the door off though because the boys are still working on the media set-up.

With the start of the school year and a bunch of overtime we haven't been able to do as much to the house as we would like. But, it still requires our attention from time to time. The shower in our bathroom for instance, made a protest on the morning of Back To School night. I tried to turn the water off, and it decided to stay on. I tried to crank the handle over farther, which diminished it a little bit, but it decided to stay on. And when I say "on" I don't mean a trickle. It was flowing about half strength which was not something you could leave going all day. So I called Mike and he said, "Yeah it does that now," and suggested really trying to crank it over like I was going to break it. I could push the handle a little bit farther but it would never fully shut off and when I released the handle it went back to half flow. So at 6am I had to go outside, towel on my head and in a robe, to turn off the water to the house. Fun times. Mike's dad came by during the day and fixed it. Apparently a screw and washer had come loose.

We're hoping to take another crack at the media stuff this weekend....