Everything and the kitchen “sink”
First off I apologize for the lack of posts, no real excuses, everybody is busy, so chalk it up to being too lazy to sit down and write something.
Let me start with the recent and work backwards. This weekend we decided to replace our leaky kitchen faucet with a new one. The old one was leaky, cheap and ugly. It could have probably been repaired and saved, but why when we can have a nice new faucet in it’s place.
After shopping around at Home Depot, Lowes, and Menards we bought a Moen Torrence edition brushed nickel model. Looked nice except the sprayer was cheap looking, but we did not care as we have a better sprayer that I would just hook on.
After getting it home and the old sink taken off I took an inventory of the parts needed.. Two hose extensions.. Oh and I needed to hook up our old sprayer. Well that is the hard part I guess. Moen faucets come with a quick connector for their sprayer, however the Kohler one we have has a compression end. So first trip to Menards and I picked up what I thought would work.
Getting home I had to use the hack saw on the new faucet to remove the “quick connector” and was left with a 1/4 MIP male pipe fitting. The same connector as the Kohler sprayer! But alas the inside diameter of the pipe was too narrow so the sprayer did not fit. Back to Menards for an extension.
Second trip to Menards for the extension coupler. Well I forgot that I needed a Male – Female coupler and just picked up a Male – Male one. Doh! Third trip for the right connector and 30 minutes later we had a new kitchen faucet.
Other news.. Brandon had his friend Hunter spend the night Friday, his first sleep over at his house. It went very well other than the occasional melt down where he wanted to do something and Hunter wanted to do something else. Typical 6 year old stuff.
For Easter Aiden got a new big wheel. He loves it but is not big enough to pedal it yet. I will get a picture of him on it shortly. Brandon got new roller blades from the bunny, again a picture will be coming soon.
Summer sports are starting this week for Brandon… Tee ball Tuesdays and Thursdays and Swimming MWF. In May he is starting Golf lessons and Dad gets to come with to dust off his rust.. Hopefully in time for his Golf weekend on May 28th.
Danith is scrap booking again, so time to print out more digital prints!
Spring *break*
This week is Brandon’s spring break, so he does not have school. We decided to keep him out of his normal Kids Club so he could enjoy the warm weather and play with his neighbors. Well long story short the weather has been in the 30-40s, so no outside playing has occurred.
I was originally planning on working from home M-W and then Danith would take over Thursday and Friday. Monday started off well, but after only a few hours of being cooped up in the house Brandon was bouncing off the walls. This of course made it hard for me to get any work done.
For a break I took Tuesday off of work and along with one of Brandon’s friends we went to the Water park of America.
Brandon enjoyed all the smaller water slides, and went down them all by himself. They played in the wave pool many times, even though at times they went too deep and had to hurry back before the next wave came over them. It was a fun 4 hours in the water and a great diversion.
Today, Wednesday, I am again trying to work from home and Brandon seems to be doing better to stay occupied. Cross your fingers for me!
In other news, one of my trusty laptops decided it was time for spring break and decided to break. A few years ago one hinge broke but it was still usable. This past weekend the other hinge stopped turning and the screen broke completely free.
Well in true Macgyver style I quickly took a metal L bracket and screwed it to the laptop bottom. Now if I am careful I can open the screen, balance it on L-bracket and the laptop is still functional. Although I will have to replace it soon and dismantle this one and perhaps turn it into a WiFi picture frame.
Have a good week everybody!
