Awesome Help

I received AWESOME help from TJ yesterday. He spent part of his Saturday helping me bring wood into the garage. I have a good supply inside now so won't have to get it out of the wood pile during bad weather. We worked 3 hours with one short break. It sure is great to have a grandson willing to help!! The money I paid him for the job didn't hurt either! We had a nice day together and topped it off with a late lunch at Dairy Queen.

Emergency plumbing training

Yesterday I was trying to blow out the sprinkler system. To do that, I had to take a cap off the pipe at the top of this other pipe (but it would not come off) so put all my weight into twisting the cap and all of a sudden I was DRENCHED from head to toe with COLD water. The pipe had broken off at the bottom of the "T" and water was gushing out of the pipe. Took me a few seconds to figure out what was going on and then how to shut the water off. Had to "dive" down into the gushing water to get the big red lever to turn to shut the water off and it was really tight so had to "dive" a couple more times before I got the water off. So, then had no water in the house. I am getting better about handling these mishaps because I did not cry!! I just assessed the damage and called Terry (who was on his way to Indiana) and asked him what to do to be able to get the water running to the house again. I sent these pictures to him (what would I do without cell phones?) I thought at first I would have to get brother Jim to come out to help me but with phone calls to Terry and Jim, I was able to find a cap to cover the break. It was harder to find the tools and plumbing things I needed than actually glueing the cap on. I waited 2 hours and then turned on the water and after 24 hours there is not even 1 drop of water leaking. It was a nerve-wracking way to get plumbing training!! Still need to figure out how to blow the sprinklers out and Terry will have his work cut out for him next sprink when he has to figure out how to hook the sprinkler pipe back up to the system since I really did a "good job" at breaking it!!