Trouble

I’m in Dutch with the wife. I tried to tell her otherwise, but she’s convinced that I am--I hardly know how to say this--a competent plumber.

It’s my own fault. Over the course of the year to date I have replaced the drain and faucet in the kitchen, the valve in the downstairs shower and now, much to my detriment, I have done what I never thought I would even have attempted: I replaced a water heater.

I couldn’t help myself. I was seduced by the lure of easy savings. Lowe’s wanted $340 to install the thing, three days’ pay. And the more I thought about it, after Karen suggested it, the more I had convinced myself that I could do it.

The problem is that I could. And did. And worse still, it works. Sigh.

So remember that we are soon building a new house. I already have been stupid enough to let my wife know that I can wire a house. Now she gets the idea that I can plumb it as well.

It’s not true! Really! Sigh

Rush, Rush, Rush!

Haven’t been keeping on on this blog so much because I’m spending the time working on other online pursuits. Updating the galleries (just added four new ones), for example, something which is long overdue, and overhauling GSBrooks.com to reflect what I’m actually doing now, as opposed to what I had hopes of finding the time to do.

“Pajama Game” is coming along very nicely. The numbers look spectacular, and I am actually holding my own as a dancer. We still have a lot of work to do in a short amount of time, but we’re quite used to that at The Village Players!

Meanwhile we’re scrambling around to find contractors and settle on final details for the new house. We’ve decided not to go for the modular option. It doesn’ t save so much money, and it would force us to come up with too much cash up front. And besides, we get much more opportunity to do things our way and do things ourselves with stick building.

It’s keeping us busy, along with the jobs and the kids and, well, life. But it’s also giving us something very special to look forward to.