Not exactly fighter practice, but progress anyway

Frostheim's fighter practice, when it happens, is traditionally Sundays. This week a number of people expressed interest, and I volunteered our yard for it. As of Saturday evening it was still looking good for the expected turn out on Sunday, and O. asked me to pick him and two other students up at 10:30 so we would be well back to my place before the 11:00 start time.

However, this morning, one after another, people started posting their regrets to the FB group. I did go pick up O., but he was the only one to make it, so we did some much needed armour maintenance. He pounded out dents, and we both polished away rust.

Once that was done it became time for house projects. C. worked on removing moss from the roof while lord_kjar, O., and I filled in dirt and rocks behind the earth cellar walls and prepared the landing space for the really big rock that we will put into the corner

Then O. and I cleaned and organised his pile of project stuff in the guest room, after which he started shaping the hilt ends on his new swords so that he can attach the aluminium cup hilts he bought at Visby.

Worth the extra hassle

It had been more than a year and a half since last I pulled the upstairs shower stall forward and opened up the plastic pipes which drain it to clean out hairballs. Therefore I wasn't so surprised to discover upon retuning from Visby that the shower wasn't draining so well anymore and one stands in a puddle while showering.

During our house meeting on Friday we agreed that the person whose week it is to clean the bathroom would be responsible for noticing if that pipe or the one inder the sink was getting clogged up and in need of cleaning. However, since the whole house is starting the cleaning rotation a bit dirtier than normal due to lots of travel this summer, and since I enjoy doing that sort of extra task, I decided to do it myself, even though it is C.'s week to clean the bathroom.

Therefore I started the job directly after my morning situps. Step one was easy: pull shower forward and lift the end of the plast tube from the drainage hole in the floor. However, once that segment was clean again and I went to remove the other, flexible length of tubbing I found that it was stuck on one end, and attempts to extract the other caused the tube to split. Therefore we went to the store to buy a new length of the flexible tube. Since we were going out we also stopped by the other store to buy that nail gun which will make building the pantry much easier. Alas, when we got that tube home we discovered that it wasn't the same sort of attachment as the old broken one, and so we had to return to the store to buy a couple of plasti
c bits to attach it to the drain and the outlet area. It was bothersome to have to go to the store twice in a row like that, but it was also nice to shower in a cabinet that drains.