Day 1916

 We got up about 8, did the pet stuff and had breakfast.  Normal weather has returned, today was 80.  Yesterday the house pipes thawed.  There's no evidence that they are leaking and it's nice to have clean clothes again. 

After breakfast it was out to the apartment to take it apart.  We removed the siding panel above the place I'd marked for the leak.  My mark was 4 inches from where the leak was.  When we removed the insulation it was copper pipe.  It looked like I'd need a plumber.  Good luck getting one before mid March.

It turns out that one of the neighbors is a retired plumber.  He's been going around the neighborhood fixing people's problems.  He came over and fixed the leak.  He used something called a shark bite.  Even I can use those to fix copper pipe.  I'd never heard of them.

Unfortunately when we turned the water back on there was a second leak.  The neighbor left while I loosened two more panels and removed a corner.  This problem was harder.  He didn't have the 1 inch coupling he needed to fix it and of course no stores in Austin have them right now.  He left.

About half an hour later he texted to say that another neighbor had the coupling.  He came back and fixed the second leak.  We left the panels loosened overnight to give things a chance to dry.  We'll button the panels up tomorrow.  Hopefully that's the end of things except for getting the rugs cleaned and putting everything back where it belongs.  Now if Spectrum would just fix the internet.

When the pipe was fixed we went to Home Depot to get a board to put the ammo on.  I also needed bricks to place it on.  They didn't have any.  We stopped at Sonic for dinner.

After dinner I played games and read.  Ellen watched chick flicks.

I'm kind of interested in what our power bill for February will be.