Labor Day 2025

I would like to wish everyone a good, fun and happy Labor Day. I'm not really much of a beggar, but I would appreciate if you could wish me the same. When you are retired, every day is Labor Day. I can fire up my grill, lay around, watch television, hang out, pretty much do anything I want to do. But not this Labor Day. It is looking like I will be actually laboring.

I will be replacing a toilet. After a day spent in town with Elaine, I snuck into the downstairs bathroom to, well, use the bathroom. In what should have been an everyday, normal function I gave the toilet a quick flush. Nothing happened. There was no water exchanging in the toilet. Why? Because there was no water in the house.

That's one thing city folk may not understand about living in the country. If something is leaking over a period of time the water well will become void of water. Something drained our well. We found that the downstairs toilet has been running water past the main seal and wasting our water.

In my construction life, I have watched literally thousands of toilets being installed. But I have never installed one myself. As a pre-teen with a mild interest in construction, I made myself a promise. I would never install a toilet. Looks like I'm breaking my promise. Toilets are heavy. I have lifting restrictions. Oh, I could call for help, but it is Labor Day. We do have a fully functioning toilet, but it is upstairs. All the way upstairs.

One advantage I have over people in the city, is that my neighbors are far enough away that they can't tell what I'm doing. I wish I could convince Elaine of that.

Enjoy your Labor Day, I will be "enjoying" mine.

God Bless, Love ya, enjoy your bathroom

Our crazy lives!

Monner