The Tap incident

This is a layout I did for my DT work with Scrapbooking Swede. (I have to figure out the links thing! If anyone can help me please do!)

{The Tap}
When you purchase your first home you’re eager to get out and start doing things around your “new” house. Well on this particular sunny afternoon we had just returned from town with a shovel, hose, and some fertilizer for the front cedars ( the guy who owned the house before us never kept care of them) So I dug every one of them out…yes ALL 10, My first yard job ever in our new home. When they were all fed and happy it was time to water them. So we hooked them up our fancy new hose to the outside new tap. Sure that went fine without a hitch, no problem. But when it came time to turn the water of it wouldn’t!

It just kept on coming out, not fast mind you but fast enough to cause a big problem. So Brodie shut off the water to the entire house and went into town (first trip) to buy a new tap. Well when he got home out came the tools (what little we have – we are new at this you know) the hammer, and a utility knife. Except the utility knife was MIA so he reached for whatever sharp serrated tool he could find - that would be my bread knife!

So he proceeded to put a hole in the wall where the tap needed to go. After many curse words and hair pulling later he managed to get the 1X1 square cut from the wall. Would you believe the tap was incorrectly installed…at this point no! Well it was and so that was call for another trip (2nd trip) into town to return the newly purchased tap and rent the proper tool to detach the old tap from the water line.

Well it was quite the afternoon, and Brodie still had to go to work at 3:30pm!
I was put on drip patrol for the remainder of the evening. He did a great job and to this day the tap turns on and off just like it should have done.

This incident goes to show us as new home owners that the “landlord” is no longer a phone call away.