I was doubtful. Based on what???? I have far less plumbing experience than the plumber. Happily, we replaced the faucet, and lo and behold, good water pressure.
I dread plumbing fixes for all sorts of reasons, chief among them, of all the projects we do, plumbing is most likely not to come together the way it should. There's often unexpected leaks and trying to do the same fix over and over again, along with much cursing and bad feelings. The kitchen faucet project did not have any of these issues.
Then we moved on to the next project: painting all the walls, except for the kitchen, which we will probably cover with beadboard. If you haven't painted the walls of an older house, you may not know how much prepwork is required, primarily filling in the holes with "mud" and then sanding them smooth. Yesterday we finished the sanding.
We won't be doing the painting until the rewiring is complete, and we've got the HVAC in. It was good to sand without having an HVAC system running to suck dust into the system. But the painting will go more smoothly with an HVAC system working.
We headed back to our Lutheridge house after getting the sanding done. In some ways, it was a short day, with 4-5 hours of work. But I was just as exhausted as if we'd been working double the time.
Here's where I might say, "But exhausted in a good way." I'm not so sure. I did an hour or two of sanding--and that wore me out. Hmm. It's work that I never do on a regular basis, so in some ways it makes sense that I'm tired. But it's not like we had to build a wall first: no heaving lifting.
I am trying just to accept my body where it is, day by day, instead of trying to understand so I can outsmart it. I am trying to give my body good nourishment and exercise each day, and it's important to remember that rest is an important part of both good nourishment and exercise. Some days, I'll need more sleep than other days--and if it means I'm falling asleep by 6 p.m., that can be just fine.
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