John the Plumber

Every basement needs a spigot where you can hook up a garden hose. Well, maybe not every basement, but ours does. Despite, or perhaps because of, the bewildering array of plumbing peculiarities in Our Old House we have had no provision for such a connection. That is until today! I jury rigged a couple of sill cocks to what were the water supplies to the old vanity where the basement bathroom once stood. Mind you, I tackled this on a Sunday afternoon when the hardware store in town was about to close. It involved shutting off the water to the house and sweating copper pipes! Hot and cold no less. Impressed? You should be. Especially if you know of my somewhat dubious history of working with water pipes. And I didn't even need to make an emergency run to back to the hardware store. This is one for the record books.