Falling dominos.....

 8:23 am - Tuesday - December 23rd - TWW - 42° F, humidity 31%, wind 9 mph out of the south by southeast.....cloudy today with a forecast high of 62° F.  On this date in 2015 TLE and I were attending 'The Festival of Lights'......

at The Mission Inn in Riverside, CA.

When we were in SoCal a few days ago I walked over to the Home Depot (about 1/2 block from the hotel) to pick up a few plumbing fittings to fix a persistent leak on the water pump in the pump house.  There is an inlet, and an outlet on the pump, and the threaded PVC fitting on the inlet had been leaking since we got here in late October, and has been getting worse.  When the new (current) pump was installed last winter Teflon tape was used on the 1.25" diameter, threaded PVC fitting that screwed into the pump inlet, and I believe the vibration weakened the tape.  I bought a four inch in length, 1.25" diameter steel nipple, pipe dope, and a 1.25" compression sleeve to make the repair.  It was too late to mess with in when we got home Sunday afternoon, so first thing Monday morning I was on it.  I had to cut the 1.25" diameter PVC pipe feeding into the inlet to unscrew the threaded PVC fitting, and found that due to the deterioration of the Teflon tape it was only hand tight....no wonder it was leaking.....

1.25" diameter Compression sleeve

......I was able to unscrew it by hand, then screw in the new steel nipple with ample pipe dope, then reconnect everything with the compression sleeve, and with that the main leak was fixed.  Of course, you fix one leak, and another appears.....

.....on the outlet fitting.  I did a temporary fix on that one with some 'Flex Seal' tape, and a hose clamp.  Charles bought the parts for this new leak Monday afternoon at Home Depot in Phoenix, and will arrive Tuesday with those parts so we can fix that one last leak.....we hope....lol.  Right now it's dripping at a rate of 1 drip every 10 seconds, and overnight there was only an inch of water in the bucket we use to catch the leaks.  Soon there will be NO leaks.

Additionally, TLE helped me finish the water catchment system for our shed....

.....I need to cut a piece of plywood to be the lid for the barrel, I'll then cut a round hole in it for the PVC pipe to enter the barrel, then extend the PVC pipe downward into the barrel.  Done, just in time for the rain we expect over the next 4 days.

TLE and I are both still getting over the travel lag from our 700 mile round trip drive to SoCal, so by the time we finished with the shed water catchment setup we were both ready for a nap, or at least I was....lol.

On Tuesday, when Charles and Phyllis arrive, we'll begin attaching rain gutters to the greenhouse eves to also catch water from the advancing storm.  Things are coming together, and the dominos are slowly falling into place here at The Wilson Wilderness.

Thanks for stopping by!