In addition to the Bull Moon Ride, Cary and I spent this weekend doing house work. First, we replaced our kitchen sink faucet:

New Faucet!

The old faucet was somehow hampering water flow…I had initially wondered whether there may be a problem with the water pressure in our house, because the kitchen faucet produced a pretty weak stream, and the sprayer was all but useless. It appears that it was the faucet all along. The new faucet works great. After replacing the faucet, though, I found that we had a new leak. I think it was caused by the old hoses under the sink. One of the hose connections was rusted, and moving it around probably loosened up a corroded rubber seal. So a quick trip to the local hardware store fixed that problem:

New Hoses = no more leak!

That was the big project for the weekend, but I also managed to buy a bench vise for the garage along with the hardware for mounting it to the workbench:

17 pounds of thumb-crushing metal

This will come in really handy the next time I need to, y’know, squeeze or bend something.

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