house 3 - team reid 0

this sunday chris and i attempted to embark on several home-improvement projects.

1) fix a leaky toilet

2) put a wheel on our heavy fence gate

these seemed like manageable goals for a sunday afternoon.

so both chris and i spent a good portion of our day attempting to remedy these 2 seemingly easy problems. but, alas, it was not our good fortune to be so successful this time. unfortunately, the thing i thought was wrong with the toilet was, apparently, not the thing that needed fixing because by the end of the day it was still running. and after chris spent many an hour and lots of *choice* words, the poorly-constructed gate broke where the wheel was attached leaving us with not only a still-heavy gate, but a still-heavy gate with a big chunk of wood missing from the bottom.

we should've just walked away 2 and 0, but we rounded the day off by trying to do some laundry. in this house, that almost always leads to disaster. the problem that i thought i'd fixed weeks ago really wasn't a fix and now it's only getting worse.

so sunday night was not a happy night in the reid household. urghh. but we'll get you, house. team reid will win in the end.