Steve and I celebrated our forty-eighth wedding anniversary on Tuesday, January 31st. We actually celebrated on Monday, the 30th, too since I had a cello lesson, a meeting, and an orchestra rehearsal on Tuesday. We had dinner Monday night at Sam's Steakhouse and I ate filet mignon for the first time. Wow, it was amazing!
Emily took this photo on Saturday. She still had the background up for Valentine mini-sessions. Since we had a Valentine theme for our wedding reception, it was perfect. Steve's mother worked at J.C. Penney's and she enlisted the store window-dresser to do the decorations in the church's cultural hall. He did a lovely job.
Our "romantic" gift to each other was an electric air pump with gauge that will allow us to fill our bike tires to the proper PSI much quicker than our hand air pump can do. Whenever we want to ride bicycles, we always have to check the tires and sometimes, getting them filled can take up to fifteen minutes which takes away from the time to ride. We didn't get to try it out until Wednesday because the temperatures were so cold most of the week. In fact, we had a light skiff of ice covered with snow Monday morning that was actually was MORE slippery on Tuesday.
Sally got groomed on Wednesday. It has been so cold I just hated to have all her warm fur removed so, on a whim, I asked for a poodle cut. I think she looks so cute and silly at the same time.
Our twelve year old water heater started acting up (again) a week ago causing us to have to take bucket showers with water heated on the stovetop. I called a plumber early Monday morning and the earliest someone could get out was Wednesday. Because this isn't our first time with water heater issues in this house and, because the heater is so old that most plumbers won't even look at it, I determined that we better get a new one. Thankfully, we had just made our last payment on our HVAC system so monthly money was freed up. The plumber checked things out and reported that new water heaters are wider and we will have to bump out the wall to fit the new one. He was also able to re-light the pilot light. He left with us needing to find someone to take out the wall before he could start doing anything.
There is an older man in our ward who Steve grocery shops for and his son, Ken, is a handyman by trade. I texted him and he not only can bump out the wall, but he can also install the new water heater and haul off the old one for $500 less than just having the plumber install the heater! Needless to say, we are going to go with Ken and he will start tomorrow. In the meantime, Steve has been able to restart the pilot light so we have had intermittent hot water throughout last week. It is pretty incredible how much markup the plumber was going to charge on a heater and how much he was going to charge for his labor.
We watched "Groundhog Day" on Thursday, of course. And we watched "Glass Onion" last night while we ate pizza - Steve some homemade meat-lovers and me some enhanced (with meat, onions, mushrooms, more cheese) Costco gluten-free puzza And that is all, folks.....
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