We spent the morning at a garden sale at our local arboretum. In the rain. I found a couple things but Patrick didn’t because his garden is pretty much fully planted, and he doesn’t care about the extra stuff, like I do. On our way home, we passed by an oddities store I’d never seen before, so of course, we stopped. I found another hand trinket dish to add to my collection. Yay!

I also read up on our new appliances and we broke them all in today. We discovered the dryer wasn’t vented correctly, so that required a trip to the hardware store and some cussing. Patrick got it repaired well enough to finish laundry but it will probably need a complete redo at some future point. Much like our kitchen plumbing. When I went to put away everything under the sink after the dishwasher install, there was a puddle of water. I removed the trap to make sure it wasn’t just plugged up and the water from the tap kept running, even with nothing turned on. There will be a plumber visit in our very near future. Ugh. It’s always something.

On the upside, the rain let up, the night was cool, the new appliances work well, and tomorrow is Sunday. I’m grateful for that.