Three Faucets in Three Days, and Stinky Crabs

If you ever told me that we would go through three shower faucets in three days I certainly wouldn't believe you.

But it happened.

First the original faucet that came with the house just wore out. It was filled with some kind of some kind of sediment and was just past it's time. It was a pretty cheap faucet to begin with.

Barb was just about to jump in the shower and all she got out of it was a trickle. She called me upstairs to try to address the problem.

Fortunately Barb thought of a hand shower faucet that we had bought but never had used. We just never got the right plumbing connections for it to be connected properly.

So I hooked it up and it worked. It had four different settings for the water, including a pulsing massage. You could hang it up for a typical type shower experience or pull it off and use it as a hand-held spray.

Barb had already used the other bathroom for a shower. So the next day she got ready to jump in the shower and then all of a sudden I heard her calling me to the bathroom for help once again.

Somehow this faucet had suddenly "exploded" and fell to pieces, spraying water around the bathroom.

Jeesh, two days in a row and Barb still can't get a simple shower. She took one in the second bathroom again.

I try to fix the second shower head in two days, but it was beyond fixing. A critical ring which held it all together had snapped. We head out to purchase a new one.

Yesterday I installed that shower head. Barb is trying it out this morning. I'm sitting here blogging and anxiously waiting to hear the news. Wait...here she comes...

"How'd the shower work Barbie?"

"Oh it worked fine, thanks."

Woohoo. Three shower heads in three days. Let's not make it four.

In other household weirdness - we planned on making crabcakes last night for Alyssa and Charlie, who come over every Thursday evening for dinner. We got a pound of crab meat from Henry's outside of Wrightsville.

Henry's is a large distributor of seafood in this area. They have a little retail business with limited hours. Wholesale is their main business. We've found there seafood to be the best in the area.

But last night was not good. The crab gave off a smell, a terrible smell, like nothing either of us had ever smelled before. It quickly filled the house. It was enough to make you sick.

As soon as Alyssa and Charlie stepped in the house they were stunned by the horrible smell, stunned and sickened.

We got together for a quick pow wow and decided that we would order out for sandwiches and still salvage the baked potatoes and fresh sweet corn.

We quickly worked to remove the crab cakes from the stove top and get the crabs, the can it came in, and everything outside in the trash. We lit candles and turned on every fan in the house to remove the horrible smell.

This had never happened to us before. It was beyond what you could possibly imagine. Barb called Henry's to warn them this morning.

Sometimes life can be anything but normal.