[mini] Mission Accomplished!

Acomplished today a little project that stemmed from the great gutter cleanout of 2005. This was one of those made-for-TV moments that comes with owning a decrpit old house. I got the garden hose to wash out the gutter and went to turn on the water at the spigot. What, the spigot is already on? But no water. Hmmm... must be turned of inside. I turn off the spigot and go into the basement, find the valve and turn it on. The valve starts spraying water all over the basement. I manage to wiggle the handle a bit so that the spray stops. I go outside and the water is gushing from the spigot going all over the place! Turns out the outside spigot was bad. The washer was cracked and brittle. I cleaned out the gutters and got everything turned off. The following weekend I spend my 2 hours of weekly free time on this mini project. A quick trip to Ace by bike, followed by a return trip to Ace, about 1 hour total (I had to go back because I got the wrong size spigot at first), we had a nice new spigot in the back yard. Now about that valve in the basement...


PS - I hope the White House doesn't charge me for using their trademarked phrase (see post title).