You Asked!!

Okay....so you said I never told you the toilet story.

Here you go!!!

Back in the summer, my parents asked Ryan if he could do a project at their house. They have a half bath {a tiny half bath} off one of the bedrooms, and Mom wanted to put in new flooring and a new toilet. So Ryan decided to do the project while my parents were on vacation - to cause minimum inconvenience. {Because, you know, having an entire bathroom torn up messes with the whole house.}

He started one Monday evening and the next day, work was so slow that he was forced to take a vacation day. He chose to take his unexpected day off to knock out the project. This was right after I left work at the station, and I was trying to get into a routine at home. We decided it would be most advantageous for me to stay home and work while Ryan went to my parents' house and worked.

In the early afternoon, he called and said that he had shut off the water entirely, but about a half hour after he did that, a geyser of water started shooting up from the exposed toilet pipe. The only thing that would keep it under control was if he sat with his thumb over the hole. Could I run to Lowe's and buy {insert plumbing part name here that I don't remember}?

So I ran to Lowe's and found what I thought he wanted, took pictures and texted it to him...but no, that wasn't it. {Any day when you find a woman taking pictures of plumbing parts in Lowe's...be afraid. Be very afraid.}

So I gave up and drove to my parents' house. And I found Ryan:

Plugging up the geyser.

So we switched places. I plugged the hole so he could go to the store and look for parts. He set me up in the hot little bathroom with a fan to keep me cool and a book to keep me entertained. Because there's not a lot to do in an empty bathroom.

I took some selfies:

And about an hour later, he came back with a cap to cap it off. I was relieved of my duties and permitted to go home.

The setback meant he had to spend another day there, so the next night, he stopped on his way home from work, and I decided I'd had enough time apart. I showed up with treats:

And Ryan finished his work.

He's nothing if not entertaining.

Don't you guys wish you got to live with us all the time???

PS - Here is the before and after of all his hard work.

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