The phone rings.....

I love when my phone rings and my daughter starts the conversation with "I was just in the bathroom, this isn't going to be a health question...." 

It could go either way, or should I say it has gone either way...but this time it was a leaking toilet question.  I hate doing plumbing jobs!  But hey if you can avoid the cost of a plumber, I'm all for it.  Turns out it was a simple "smell the water and see if it is rust or something else".  Turned out to be rust and within a couple of minutes we had traced it to the bolts holding on the tank.  Sometimes we have to email pictures for our repair projects, but not this time.

We're going the half-assed route on this one, turned off the water, drained the tank and will try some sealant on it before we decide that the bolts have to be replaced.  Rusty bolts can be a pain, so sealing them off and postponing the job sounded good.  Yes, we know it's not the best thing to do...

Life is good and sealant is cheap....

I love you honey!

Some Things Are Just Never A Good Idea.

Even in a relatively close style of living, some things are just not a good idea. Take for example using a leaf blower to clean under the refrigerator.

Even though you can definitely get the dust bunnies out from under there with one swipe of the leaf blower, the amount of "fly" that the bunnies get out of it just make it a bad idea. Flying dust bunnies are not ever a good thing. And it is really difficult to explain how you got them on the blades of a ceiling fan without admitting that you were nuts enough to use the blower in the house.

Things We Love.

I love the ocean, sunrises and hermit crabs. What is the world coming to when even a hermit crab goes disposable? Yes, that is an old 35mm film canister. And no, I have no clue where he got it, I don't have a 35mm camera.

Life is good in the islands. It's slow and breezy and just a bit crazy.

Life's too short to waste it trying to be perfect!

Why waste time and energy on perfect when one man's crappy is another man's snappy?

Instead of driving yourself and everyone around crazy trying to get it all perfect, learn to live the hand grenade lifestyle of relatively close, it's a lot more fun.