Rats. Mr. B. and I were just at Lowe’s to pick up a replacement flapper for the one that’s leaking in the toilet in the guest bathroom, causing it to run and run. Now I discover we’re to have a freeze tonight and a deeper one tomorrow night. Don’t think I have enough covers for the outdoor faucets. Could have bought more at Lowe’s. Come to think of it, they had several big boxes of them arrayed up and down the center aisle near the registers. I wondered about it. Now I know why. Will have to use a towel for one or two faucets, I guess. Curiously enough, there’s also a possible brush fire warning from all the wind today. But, having little brush around the rancho, I believe we can just let that one go.
UPDATE: The freezes went okay, but I couldn’t get the toilet’s inflow shut off to fix the flapper. Something tells me something worse is going on. I called a plumber and await his ministrations.
MORE: He came, he tinkered, he resolved the problem with a new fill valve, wall shutoff and water hose. Said the flapper was okay all along. Problems that start out small have a way of becoming larger at the rancho. Sigh.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
what I want to know is this: why do the red ones cost twice as much as the gray ones at Home Depot? they are exactly the same except for the color.
what I want to know is this: why do the red ones cost twice as much as the gray ones at Home Depot? they are exactly the same except for the color.
Beats me. I never go to HD anymore, Lowe’s being so much closer. Maybe because you could see the red ones through the snow drifts? Except, when was the last time we saw a snow drift around here…
Beats me. I never go to HD anymore, Lowe’s being so much closer. Maybe because you could see the red ones through the snow drifts? Except, when was the last time we saw a snow drift around here…
Well, this is one worry we are spared here 😉
Well, this is one worry we are spared here 😉