Oh, right... Back to plumbing?

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I am getting there.  That might actually go forward today, since it is cool and I have the time.  Maybe.  But as I consider it, I had some questions.  One of the things, after the bathroom is completed, that I want to do is to change all of the water cutoff valves, begin considering installing a pre water softener extension 't' to begin creating another outdoor faucet, this one on the garage side... for washing the car, perhaps for watering, and just to have an extra source of water for outdoors.  I just think it should be there.

I simply wasn't sure where/how to cut the pipe for installing new valves.  Replacing old valves is different, as I have to cut out the old valve and work with what is there.  I think the valves that are installed are a lot more compact, so I think the replacements will work as if new.  Either way, I know how to deal with that.  An extension fitting and some extra pipe will work with that.  Now I know, thanks to YouTube.

As well, with regards to the extra outdoor faucet, I had been wondering about a specific fitting.  I didn't know the name of it, but a very short search lead to the name, a saddle valve.  I had some wonder if they made them big enough to actually handle a faucet.  My suspicions were well founded.  Saddle valves are only good for little things, like certain types of air conditioners, perhaps humidifiers, refrigerator ice cube production units, and the like.  Well, at least I was thinking, twice.  Still, the next reefer I buy I would like to have an ice cube maker in it.  Now I know how to do that so it wasn't a total waste.

Sure, it isn't sexy, exciting, or artistic (to most of you).  But to me it is a beautiful thing to know, and tinker with these things.  It is owning one's domain, learning, doing.  It is quite artistic, more so when you use logic and metal to create a function that simplifies life, and can repeat it ad nauseam.  Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, nyet?  Uhrm, later.

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Another hour or three in the garden.  I did a bit more thinning, on the full row of bulb veggies, while weeding, then cleared, cleaned, and deepened around all save a few more plants while weeding there as well.  I can't have that many more plants to weed around?  I suppose I only have four or five, including the ones I didn't create a water basin for in the first run.  Then weeding through the corn, if that is light.  And, finally, back to simply removing weeds from the common areas, where no crop plants grow.  That will keep me as busy as I wish to be kept for the rest of the summer.  Pulling weeds out by their roots means nothing to seeds waiting to germinate.

A cooling down period, a good long one.  Today isn't, technically, a work day.  And I don't quite consider this, or plumbing, work.  It's just stuff.  The bending gets to me, but doesn't stop me.  Being on my knees, flexing at the waist, out in the heat.  All pretty rough but getting easier.  The sun came out, mostly, but the wrap sunglasses are doing there job and then some.  I was a little surprised.  Then again, it is not full sun, more mostly sunny/partly sunny, moment to moment.  Well worth the notion.  Thanks for the push foam.  Such a simple thing, and it was on my mind/in my calculations.  I just had to... hear/read it before I would do it.  

Yeah, not bad.  Three, four if you include the trip to SLC and all the doings that day, days of nice little bits and pieces.  Work.  Not heavy, not hard, but with real results.  And it isn't over yet.  Tomorrow might be a light day, for some, with shooting.  But that's not easy for me.  It does wear me out.  I guess I should call it an active play day.  Hmm, I'm going to see if I can get the target together and take that.  If so I will call my friend and have him bring the pistol(s) he wants to sight in.

Like I said, plumbing.  That is for this evening I do believe, as well as setting up the hoses for the last automated part of the system.  I did adjust the garden hoses, for a bit more coverage on the ends, and will run it again tonight, just for half an hour though.  Some of the plants, especially the new ones, are struggling.  With their root soil loosened and a pit for water retention, I am hoping a little extra water on off days will bring them back.  Some of the plants are absolutely wonderful.  Big, bushy, branched strongly and thickly.  I'll get some peppers and tomatoes, barring some other type of problem.  Pork chops sound really good right about now.  I didn't have breakfast and I am getting hungry.  Later.