Where have I been?

So no posts from me for a while. I knew it would be like this. We took an impromptu vacation to the Florida Keys. Had a great time. Very relaxing and fun too. The photos are here.

Ellyn has run off to Texas to go to her cousin's Bat Mitzvah and Brian and I spent most of yesterday afternoon buying and installing a new garage door opener after the remaining 18 year old one decided to stop working. It was fun and the new one works great. It also has a much smaller transmitter for on the visor than the old one.

We are still waiting to hear back from TV Guide about the job for Brian. They keep telling us it is going forward positively and I am praying they do not keep him holding on for this long and then dash his hopes by saying no. Also, he has been holding off looking for anything else because he wants that job so badly. Ellyn has been trying to get him to starting looking elsewhere or getting a temp job until they decide but he has not been heeding her. When it comes through, there will be a big celebration. If not, there will probably be a big depression.

My Uncle Dick has apparently upgraded the Lynch Family Gathering Place website on MyFamily.com to allow more photos and posts to be made. I have put a few out there and sent out invitations to people to come back and use it. It is going slowly so far but I am hoping intrest will be rekindled. I think the internet is a great place to communicate with others. I have had more contact with my brothers over the internet lately than in most of the last several years. I shold make sure they have access to the gathering place too. I am not sure they do.

Huh?

How could it be that within a few hours of installing a new toilet, both of the other working toilets in the house would fail? Both developed a problem with the fill valve where it would not stop filling the tank, even when the float was pulled up.

I repaired one with the valve out of the toilet we are discarding and the other with a new valve I had in the garage, which I purchased a while back but did not use, for some reason.

But the new toilet is working fine and there are no leaks I can find so the old toilet is coming out today and then we can get started with the shower work. Ellyn wants me to delay as long as possible tearing out the old shower. I guess the idea of having to share a shower with two other people is not what she wants to have happen. Perhaps she is thinking Brian will move to Boston with his new (hopefully) job and then it will be just the two of us in one shower. That she can handle.

Another plumbing success

Our new bathroom toilet is now in place. I took me about 3 days to do all of the plumbing and about 3 hours to install the toilet itself. Now it is in place and ready to use. Next I will remove the old toilet and start removing the shower.

All of the pictures from the remodeling project can be seen here.