Minor progress, but progress nonetheless
Mar. 26th, 2014 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Last night, after I changed the sheets, I burped my waterbed. When I got into bed, my bottom hit bottom, due to a combination of natural water loss from the bed and increased mass in me (alas). The extra air in the bed had been masking the problem, but once it was gone, something needed to be done quickly.
Today, I finally did something I should have done years ago: I went to the hardware store with the cap from the faucet in my kitchen, and purchased the adapter that lets it connect to a garden hose. This garden hose stays indoors, and is used solely for filling and emptying my waterbed. (Yes, I still have a waterbed. I like it. So there.)
When I moved into this house in 2003, I didn't have the right adapter, but we managed somehow. I can't remember if we used the outside faucet or if we borrowed someone else's extra-long hose and used the basement faucet, or if Greg had an adapter he lent me, but in any case, when I looked today at all the bits and bobs that live in the kitchen utility drawer, the appropriate sink-to-hose adapter was definitely not there, though the hose-to-waterbed one and a couple of wrong ones were. But it turned out the lovely people at Diamond Lake Hardware had exactly what I needed, and now I have a topped-up waterbed to go with the brand-new sheets.
After they dry, all of the adapter bits are going to go in a Ziploc bag in the utility drawer, and I hope next time I have to do this won't be such an undertaking.
Also, I have been sorting the fiber in the living room into dyed braids, single-colored (or mostly) top and roving, art batts, batt makings, and washed natural fiber. I don't yet have places to put it all, but that's next on the agenda.
Today, I finally did something I should have done years ago: I went to the hardware store with the cap from the faucet in my kitchen, and purchased the adapter that lets it connect to a garden hose. This garden hose stays indoors, and is used solely for filling and emptying my waterbed. (Yes, I still have a waterbed. I like it. So there.)
When I moved into this house in 2003, I didn't have the right adapter, but we managed somehow. I can't remember if we used the outside faucet or if we borrowed someone else's extra-long hose and used the basement faucet, or if Greg had an adapter he lent me, but in any case, when I looked today at all the bits and bobs that live in the kitchen utility drawer, the appropriate sink-to-hose adapter was definitely not there, though the hose-to-waterbed one and a couple of wrong ones were. But it turned out the lovely people at Diamond Lake Hardware had exactly what I needed, and now I have a topped-up waterbed to go with the brand-new sheets.
After they dry, all of the adapter bits are going to go in a Ziploc bag in the utility drawer, and I hope next time I have to do this won't be such an undertaking.
Also, I have been sorting the fiber in the living room into dyed braids, single-colored (or mostly) top and roving, art batts, batt makings, and washed natural fiber. I don't yet have places to put it all, but that's next on the agenda.