I used to like the rain.
It was a fun treat in a desert. And then my porch got even funkier.
Keep in mind this is after some repairs. I know.
Racing the clouds today, like a globophobic avoiding balloons (the most terrifying thing a certain brother-in-law could click on), I made some makeshift repairs to my porch.
Aluminum – What can’t you do? You hold soda, you case laptops. Now you can be applied like a Band-Aid to a leaky roof.
Sure, it looks horrible. But it keeps water out a lot better than housing development signs. Yeah, the previous owner built a porch out of scrap wood. It started out great, but it didn’t last long.
While up on the roof, I noticed more shingles that had broken off. Tomorrow morning holds even more promise. My wife bought a bundle. Why didn’t anyone tell me these things were so ruttin’ heavy?
Today also brought the repair of a toilet. We went through a certain hierarchy to prioritize the work today. I always get nervous around water repairs. I hold my breath until I forget that I worked on it. It’s not like a shelf – you put something on it and if it breaks, then it wasn’t a good shelf. But water can leak subtly.
I love summer because I can finally catch up on repairs that sit during the school year. My wife and I started to repair the handle system to our guest bathroom. Some readers may remember that over a year ago a bestia imparable crushed the handle by just resting a pinky on it. We’re now getting around to repairing it.
With this work I feel blessed. Through previous stuff breaking down my wife and I have added to our repair repertoire. We learned some of these tricks from helpful friends. The bathtub no longer leaks. It’s not quite where I’d like it. While having the ‘H’ turn on the cold water is quirky and may lead to some comic mischief, I think we can do better. Many in the world don’t have running water, so today was a reminder of what I do have.
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Just wait until transparent aluminum is invented…any decade now.