The Final Push

Through some small miracle, we might get this house on the market by the end of the month. This weekend we focused on the kitchen.

Mark, our home repair expert, otherwise known as "Mops":


Milt changing a light fixture:


Our new granite countertops (and the hole where the sink used to be):


We did have a classic home repair moment. I turned off the water supply to the house to remove the sink and to replace the broken water shut off valve at the sink. After we installed the new valve, I went back to the basement to turn the water supply on - and nothing happened. No water flowed to any faucet in the house. This was disconcerting. For an anxious half hour we investigated and tried to determine why the water pressure wasn't coming back on. We have an old system - so finding replacement parts would be difficult. Also, it's hard to sell a house without water. We removed the flow valve in the basement, looked at it, determined it still worked, and reattached it. Then the water started flowing again.