Saturday, September 5, 2015
Gay Sept-4-15
6:56 AM | 
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
We got an early e-mail
from Pam and Mike saying that she had an early doctor’s appointment and wanted
to know if we wanted to meet them for breakfast at the Village Inn after her appointment.
Of course we were ready as Cheri has been telling me she wanted to go out for breakfast.
Pam’s doctor appointment lasted longer than she thought it would but ended up
having breakfast at 9:30 am. After breakfast Cheri wanted take Pam to a new art
and craft store that opened a while back here in Zephyrhills. The shop has the
catchy name of Bug Splatter. They had a lot of neat and interesting things.
When we got home Cheri did her Friday house cleaning and I went next door to
remove seed pods from the palm trees and pull weeds around the neighbor’s
house. I was going to work on the motorcycle but after I got done at the
neighbors I was soak and wet with sweat and decided it was too humid and hot to
be out. So after getting cleaned up again I worked on the can light lay out for
the kitchen, having a hard time figuring out how many I need and the placement.
Late this afternoon I took Cheri for a massage and told her I would take her
out for supper after the massage. So we went to Sonny’s BBQ. Cheri had a pulled
pork sandwich and I had the lunch half rack of baby back ribs. All was very
good and came home happy and ready to settle in for an evening of TV. I know
that fall is here as we saw a camper pulling a car. The snowbirds are starting
to arrive. Which means our traffic will start increasing making it hard to get
around town.
Friday, September 4, 2015
Gay Sept-3-15
6:41 AM |
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
I took Cheri for her 8:50
am appointment this morning and then when we got home we were both exhausted
and rested for a bit. Then I finished with the water heater which took me all
of about 20 minutes. Cheri headed for her sewing room in hopes of completing
her wall hanging today. Oh last night Cheri said that the garbage disposal
wouldn’t work and the sink was backed up. She did use the plunger and got the
drain working again. Well this morning Cheri checked and we had a leak under
the sink. So you know what my next job was. Good news I got the garbage
disposal working, bad news we still had a leak under the sink and the water was
coming from the garbage disposal. So I headed over to Lowe’s to get a new one
and found one just like the one we had so the install went smoothly. When I was
all done I found Cheri sitting in her recliner and asked her if she got the
wall hanging done. She said yes and I asked her to show me and she said look at
the wall beside your recliner. Yep there it was hanging on the wall and I didn’t
see it when I sat down. Just goes to show Cheri could do all sorts of things
and I wouldn’t know it, maybe I should be checking things more carefully. I got
all my water heater figures together and if I would have used the plumber the
total cost would have been $836.00 plus I had to pay them $125.00 to come and
check it out. My total cost was $57.57 and the insurance company so going to reimbursed
me for my cost of the water heater. So if I add the cost of what I paid the
plumber to come my total out of pocket is $182.57 which isn’t bad for a new
water heater.
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| Cheri's latest wall hanging |
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| Good job |
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Gay Sept-2-15
6:32 AM |
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
I didn’t have a good night,
think I was over tired and woke up a lot. Cheri had an OK night. This morning I
went to work on dressing up the electrical wiring for the water heater. I was
ready to plumb the safety valve and see I needed a couple of PVC fittings. So I
needed to make a trip to Lowe’s but decided to wait until this afternoon as I
had to take Grandma for her 1:00 pm eye appointment. After dropping Grandma off
at her place I went home and got Cheri so we could go to Wal-Mart to get her
medicine and groceries. I dropped Cheri off at Wal-Mart and I went to Lowe’s
for the PVC fittings. I must have looked for half an hour and couldn’t find
what I needed. So it was back to Wal-Mart to pick up Cheri. After getting
Grandma’s groceries and medicine to her we decide to go to Home Depot for the
PVC fittings. I also took back the water heater installation kit I had bought
and didn’t need. Within a minute I had found the fittings I needed and headed
home. It was after 4:30 pm and I didn’t feel like doing any more today. Cheri
fixed pork chops in the crock pot for supper, really good. Cheri did get to
spend some of the morning working in her sewing room.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Gay Sept-1-15
6:50 AM |
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
It was a busy day in the
Sharp house as we had a lot going on. I took Cheri for her 9:00 am dentist
appointment and were back home by 10:00 am. OK it is time for Cheri and me to
get the new hot water heater out of the back seat of the car. It took a little
work but got out and into the sunroom. Cheri headed for her sewing room and I
started removing the old water heater (just thinking why they call it a hot
water heater? If the water is already hot there is no reason to heat it.) The
first thing was to get the old one drained, which took a long time and gave me
a chance to do my Bible study. Getting the old one out was quite the job. I got
a tarp and put it down on the floor and worked the heater onto it then with
Cheri pushing and me pulling we got it out the back door. Then it was time to
get the floor where the old heater was setting cleaned up and ready for the new
drain pan. I had to make a quick trip to Lowe’s to get a couple of pieces of
PVC pipe for the drain pan. By 3:30 pm we had the new water heater in place and
ready to hook up. But that had to wait as I needed to take Cheri for her
appointment at 4:00 pm. I had told Cheri I would take her out for supper after
her appointment. But it didn’t get over until 5:30 pm and we were both tired
and decided to come home and have some soup for supper. Also I wanted to get
back to work on the water heater. By 7:00 pm I had everything hooked up and by
7:10 pm we had hot water. I still have all the clean up to do which will take
me about an hour or a little more and that can wait until tomorrow, too tired
to do any more today.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Gay Aug-31-15
6:49 AM |
Posted by
Sharp's Travels
It was an interesting and
upsetting day. The plumber was only twenty minute late but did call which impressed
me. It took him a while in his mind that we actually had a water heater that
was leaking. He said that he couldn’t hear any leaking and where it was coming
from. My mistake I guess the wet floor wasn’t enough proof. He finally said
that it must be an internal leak. I am not sure what the difference is between
an internal and external leak is, why does it make any different. Well he said
that he would have to go out and call the insurance company. Before he came back
in I get a call from the insurance company telling me about additional things
that are not covered by the insurance like extra plumbing, expansion tank, and
a drain pan all for an additional $425. Plus the $125 to have them come and
check it out but there wasn’t going to be any charge for the new water heater
as the insurance company was going to pay for it. I thanked him and told him he
could take his tools and leave. Grandma had a doctor’s appointment this afternoon
with a new general practitioner because the one that she has been seeing for
years left. Grandma needed a new prescription for her pain medicine and this
doctor said that the government has change the rules and a GP can no longer
give out scripts for pain meds. He said that she has to go to someone that does
pain management. We did drop off the other scripts that she got at Wal-Mart. Then
we headed to Home Depot to check out hot water heaters. I bought a new water
heater, drain pan, and installation kit for $378.66 plus I should get cash out
from the insurance company for the water heater. I also got the kitchen cabinet
ordered. What a day plus we even got a little rain this evening.
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