Today was meant to be a nice day to go get some firewood home to split and ready up for burning, but it was not meant to be. Today was also meant to be a day to get the car loaded on the trailer to get a diagnostic done to see what kind of repair is required to get it to stop leaking water into the cylinders and causing it to overheat repeatedly. But alas, that was not meant to be. Last night I got a message that one of the boys was having trouble with the back wheel of his car making a grinding sound and it not driving well. So today was meant to be a day to go help him instead. Then the water heater at our house went on the frtiz. That would have to wait. I started off taking our grandson to school with his dad since their car was out of service. Then we got parts and tools and then some penetrating oil and some more tools and got at the job of changing his back brakes, pads, rotors, and all.
That would be a fairly easy task, but his car has wheels on it that don not quite fit right, and they will not let go properly when the lug nuts are undone. Getting the wheels to come off is a hell of a chore. But we got it in the end, and the brake rotor and pad changes were dead easy.
We ran to get the kids in the afternoon and then he took them to my house while I went and got an element for the water heater. I came back and sat down feeling so tired by this point that I wanted to give up, so I got up and got at it instead. I got a hose and drained and flushed the water tank, then changed the element and went out with our son to tighten his lugs again after he has driven it for a while. I came back in to realize I should have shut the pressure release valve on top of the water heater to stop it overfilling and flooding the pantry. Oh well. But since it was full, I cleaned up and put on the power and the water heater is working again just fine! So, happy days.
On top of it all, I was very tired today as I could not sleep last night. I was watching a lot of videos of a singer that YouTube rudely stuffed under my nose about a week ago. I finally gave it and watched a video, and it was plain to see she was an amazing opera singer. Her name was Patricia Janeckova, from the Check Republic. I say was because five weeks ago she got married, and four weeks ago she died of breast cancer. I’ll say this: she was a truly gifted and amazing singer! Sadly, she was only 25 when she died. All death is horrible, especially when someone is so young.
I could have gotten into opera to hear her some more. Instead, I’ll leave it for now. It wasn’t meant to be.