May 11th - Visiting and Projects in California

Kelly and I flew out to California on Saturday to see the kids, grandkids, and new granddaughter. Originally Kelly was flying out to be there for the birth in April and I was flying out later in April after my treatments. Both trips had to be cancelled because of Covid19. Wren Margaret was born on Easter Sunday. Here is a picture of Grandma holding her at a month old.

She watches everything around her. A really good baby with a lot of hair.

Yesterday for Mother’s Day Erin and Kellen drove in and we all had a nice visit and nice lunch. Kellen at thirteen is now only about an inch shorter than me and wears an 11.5 shoe. Crazy. He will fly back with us on Saturday. He will have to do his school work online from a Perryville for two weeks.

Today Adam and I tackled a couple of maintenance issues around the house. The first was the garage door. It was going down to within a foot of closing then going back up. At first we thought it was the electronic eye but it checked out fine. Then we thought it was the limiting switch. I looked up online how to adjust it and moving it only made things worse. We checked that the rollers were free. They were except for one. Adam noted that the door appeared crooked. I then checked the door alignment and it was an inch from the track on one side and rubbing on the other. Also one roller bracket was loose from the strain Being put on it. I noticed that the track was much narrower at the top On the right side than the bottom. I took the two brackets loose on the side, moved the track over and it operated properly. Here is a picture of the track and two brackets I moved almost two inches to solve the problem.

We put a bolt through the loosened bracket to reinforce it as well.

We then turned to the faucet in the Master Bathroom. The handle had broken off the hot water side and there was no fixing it. There also was no getting the cold faucet out of the sink without the reciprocating saw. Here is a picture of the old faucet after taken off.

The new faucet did not come with the pull lever to stop the drain. It had a new drain to install that you push down on to close and push again to open.  Of course the old drain was in the pipe too far to just come off so I had to saw it off as well.  Here is a picture of the new faucet installed with the new drain.

A nice improvement and a way to keep me busy.