In other news, I fixed as much of our broken kitchen faucet as I could, but it needed to be replaced. We had a plumber come Tuesday morning to replace it, as well as fix a bathtub leak. When one goes without a kitchen faucet, one really appreciates it more than ever. When one struggles for many hours with trying to fix a mechanical thing, one has a much greater appreciation for that mechanical thing. I will never look at a faucet the same way, or take one for granted ever again. Luckily we have a bathroom downstairs, so another water source was not far away, but it’s fantastic to have running water in the ktichen again.
Here’s what it looked like when I was in the middle of trying to fix it (this is the old one that’s now been replaced with the same model Moen):
