What a day!

Today was just beautiful and warm too.  I did a lot of little things, one of which, was trying to locate a sealed bearing for the wind sock.  I have a wind sock down by the beach that I use to determine wind direction and for just the plain enjoyment in seeing movement down there.  Previously, I used a bearing from an old hard drive but it froze up almost immediately – did not even last two weeks.  I ordered a sealed bearing from NAPA today and it will be in on Monday.  As I write this, I just finished adding a little aluminium vane to help keep it pointing into the wind.  The new bearing will probably have more friction to overcome so the extra vane may help point it better.  We shall see.

We went to Menard’s today.  As usual there were two agenda’s and mine was to find the Christmas present that I wanted for myself.  I found one and it is only $7 so perhaps I will get it.  Of course SAM has a different agenda and that is to replace the bathroom counter in the downstairs apartment.  I must admit it is getting a bit long in the tooth and is a yucky blue 1970’s countertop.  The cabinet is ok but the top definitely dates the room.  This will probably be a $500 changeout which is not too bad but I dread changing the  shutoff valves.  Installing the two new shutoff’s will be a repeat of the apartment sink fiasco.  At least I have the RTV Blue on hand this time.

SAM found a integrated countertop / sink arrangement at Menard’s which is sort of off white with a tinge of grey.  If it matches the color already down there that will be great.  If not then I guess a room redecorating is in order.  The biggest problem I see is the bathroom mirror.  The silver on the present mirror is coming off near the edges so we need a 48″x40″ mirror and I do not know if these are a standard size.