Saurday

This weekend saw the swap to Standard Time, and also the first time snowflakes showed up on the long term forecast. This as also a weekend where I got Ian's almost undivided attention for a day to try to figure out what to do about the mudroom. This cued a frenzy of Doing All The Things.
Friday was a long day of driving and delivering beef, but when I got home, I painted the ceiling of the guest room.
Saturday morning I woke up and tried to tidy the house - cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed, etc. Ian showed up and we discussed the mudroom floor. We thought we were going to do a false floor on top of the pre-existing floor, and kind of planned for that. After determining that the drop was only 1.5/.75", and wandering around Home Depot for supplies, and due to the fact that I wanted it tiled, we decided to do pour on leveler instead. It will be a much more solid base for tile and refrigerators.
Got all the stuff, as well as a new light for the Mudroom and a new handle for the toilet and came home.
First you need to prime the floor with special stuff, and make sure all the holes were leveler can escape are sealed. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. All holes. Even holes that you don't think will be a problem. Seal everything.
While we were waiting on the sealer to dry (2 hours) we replaced the light in the mudroom that is now more "utilitarian" and less "unfinished basement". Then we loved on to the toilet handle.
When Ian lifted the lid off the tank, I remarked about how rusty the water was. It surprised me, because the water coming into the house is extremely clean. Plus now due to the radon unit, I have a whole house filter. One thing let to another, and he asked, "well, what's up with the water supply hose?"
The water supply house was one of the last great mysteries Ms Mary left me. It was a wadded up mess of paper towels, rubber bands, tape, and band aids (hey, it's like bathroom tape.) I figured the pipe had been dripping due to condensate, or she didn't like the ugly cold water shutoff handle and covered it up.
Well.
Yes, it did cover the shutoff, which worked! But also the braided supply hose, which was suspiciously rusty. After I cleaned of the paper towel shroud, Ian got down there with a pair of pliers and gave it a strong look. He all but grazed the line with the pliers when somehow the hose cried, "At last! the Competent People have gazed upon me and thus to I breathe my last - Goodbye, corrosive world, I am undone!" and collapsed into a pile of rust on the floor.
Ian and I looked at each other in surprise. There's no reason I shouldn't have had a fountain spewing gallons of water into my bathroom for months in the condition it was in. Another trip to Home Depot, a few bits and bobs, 10 minutes and a SharkBite Hose/shutoff combo later, and it was all better.
I still don't know how this ended as "amusing story" and not "panicked emergency."

By this point it was dinner time. After finding a locally recommended Indian Place for take out, we came home and started mixing up the leveler.
It was... an experience. That leveler will find any way to escape where you are trying to put it. The floor is more level though, the cat only needed to be extracted from the crawl space once, and theoretically there are some voids under there now full of liquid cement.
I'll get into Sunday's festivities in another post.
Blogger's photo uploader seems to be broken, I'll try to come back and put pictures in later.

Pretty (clean!) new handle and a new water supply line.
Much less likely to fail at any given moment.

Leveler doing it's leveling thing.

It's still not pretty, but it's a lot better than the naked basement light bulb action that used to be there.