After Tackling some Hefty Tasks

It was time for some well deserved knitting

A brand new day in the new-to-us house.  Murphy is still a little turned around and figuring things out.  While Chris and I looked out the window at the newly fallen snow on our front yard, Murphy jumped up on the hamper to have a look too.

Today we decided to tackle some of the more pressing projects.  Chris finished the work my dad started on the powder room sink and got that working – now we can put that bathroom back together and put away some more of our stuff that has been waiting in limbo.

If you’re working on one sink, why not throw in another? Our next task was to replace the large, vintage and very heavy concrete laundry tub in the downstairs “work room”.  This thing has to weigh over 300 pounds.  Not only was it pretty dirty and grimy from the many years of use, it was cracking on the one side, and the pipe that connected it to the wall had about a quarter sized piece rusted out.

How do I know how heavy said sink is? Because yours truly helped to move it.  Thank God for those harness straps that make lifting heavy objects safer and easier – without them, the two of us wouldn’t have been able to remove it!  Well, we were barely able to remove it with them too.

Chris got the thing detached from the wall and all unhooked while I started on dinner, cooking on our brand new AlClad Pans.  Then he yelled up the stairs not to use the sink….while I have brand new, really nice cookware, covered in grease – and a pot of egg noodles on the stove…So I strained the noodles in the bathtub and poured the grease into a beer can, plugged said sink and cleaned them with spilling as little water as possible.

Then we were ready for the move.  I didn’t have faith in my ability to help him and started to get really nervous.  Chris talked me through it and I Girl-ed Up and was able to help him.  Together we moved the really heavy and cumbersome sink to the garage.  Like I said, those straps were a life saver – from all of the lifting during the move, my right shoulder has been really sore and I’ve been trying to take it easy, (Which means limited knitting) so that I don’t make it worse.

After all of the work that we did today – I gave myself the reward of some Leinenkugel Pomegranate Shandy and some knitting.  Then we sat down to watch the Steelers game in our new-to-us basement…which is also going to need some work.