Thursday, April 09, 2026

The plumber was right.  The drips stopped by late morning.  He did still come through and I got to spend some cash to get the hot water expansion tank replaced along with the seal for the valve on the hot water tank.  I managed to get rid of a lot of stuff that was gathered and put out for whoever wanted it, but of course I had to deal with people saying they were coming that never showed repeatedly.

School transport has been a crap show for the past few weeks.  I think we'll see some of that normalizing now that we have an official van driver (as of yesterday).  Kid isn't happy because "she's mean" (translation:  she doesn't want them eating in the van and told Avery to not sit by the door).

My first mow took place last weekend whilst I had taken time off for Easter, but it's ready to be mowed again -- the main drawback to spring if you ask me.  I took my chances a few weeks ago and put some potatoes and onion sets into dirt - same with carrot, beet, cucumber, bean, and basil seeds.  The potatoes, onions, and one pot of beans are already doing their thing well enough that I had to cover things up a few nights ago when it dropped into the 20s over night.  Here we are back up to 70 today.

Work has been a bit crazy.  I ended up working 20 hours when I had 16 planned out of office at the beginning of this week.  Now... I sleep.