At home, I like to keep it simple, quiet and sweet, “lion” around with kitty, catching some local surf, and feasting on local cuisine whilst concocting me some fresh new mountainy music.
But on this layover between action adventure sessions, I feel the effects of having been gone for nearly two years by this empty old house having issues with my sleeping over.
Deferred Maintenance is the sad and sorry term and from it I do learn, therefore to my house I grovel in the gravel near its robust and rotund feet. Things like: how to fix a busted screen door that someone so cleverly created by walking through it while it was closed, how to probe, discover and uncover a septic system, and what to do when everything you repair inside a toilet still doesn’t work – are fun projects that I would rather pay someone else to do. Yet, I am embracing my inner plumber, flexing generously my fancy crack, pulling out my collection of mismatched tools, and taking responsibility for the property like a natural born Schneider. By doing this, I finally get to live by the Repair Manifesto! Check it out.
Unfortunately, the toilet is too old and is doing nothing to improve my water conservation efforts at home, so I bore the wax ring and installed a new, more efficient toilet. No, I will not be auctioning off the old toilet or sending it to a landfill. I have plans to make it a charming flower planter and seat to go near the garden Sasquatch.
What are you going to repair next?