And again....

DH went to flush the tankless water heaters with vinegar Monday and realized the one in the house has a small leak. Apparently the way it is set up, is that if it leaks it just goes down into the crawl space, so not over the closet floor. Anyhow, he said the brass fitting must have a hairline crack and wanted me to run into town to see if I could get a replacement one. First he tried to call the propane guy (who installs these things) but he didn't answer. So, I went to the propane place first, but the gal in there said she would be of no help because she just started 3 weeks ago and the head guy (who dh called) was out on calls. I said, ya, my dh tried to call him first, but he didn't answer. She said let me take a picture of it and I'll ask him. I thought she was going to text it to him, but no, she just wrote out a phone memo note, for when he got back in the office and then he could look at her phone picture, I guess.

So, I tried the hardware store and lumber store, but no luck, of course. Then I decided to go back into the propane place (all this is within a block of each other, LOL) and see if she could try calling the guy again, so he could at least say if he had the fitting or if not, then I'd know I needed to drive all the way into the city to get one. When I went back in, one of the propane delivery guys was there, but he wasn't much more help either. He tried to call the guy but no answer, but he said he had just talked to him a little bit ago and he was on his way back to the office, if I could wait a bit. A few minutes later he showed up and looked at my fitting. Went in back and brought out a new one. Apparently he had the whole piece that the fitting goes on, it is going back to the mfg as it has a different bad part on it, but the fitting I needed from it was good, so he just pulled it off that, LOL. All fixed now.

I'm not really liking this new blogger format for comments. Used to be, for the spam comments, I could check the box next to each one and then click on spam once and get rid of them all at one shot. Now it appears I have to do each one individually. Ugh.

DH has an old 32inch tv out in the shop. I hooked my old Firestick up to it, but this Firestick will not find the YouTubeTV app, so he can't watch live tv on it. I've been waiting for Amazon Prime Day, to see if it goes on sale, so I can get him one. They have the newer 4k Firestick, regularly $50 for $29.99. I was hoping they'd have the next cheaper model on sale, but they don't. I'll probably put this newest one on the house tv and give him the firestick from that tv (which isn't very old, I bought it because the first one I bought in 2015 was so slow). In checking out, I saw a "trade-in" option. It even knew I had bought 2 firesticks previously and I checked the oldest one. It gave me $11.21 credit towards the new one, if I mail it in by 11/3 and will email a shipping label. Plus, I remembered I have a $3 Amazon gift card from Verizon up rewards. All applied and the $50 Firestick cost under $15. 

Yesterday we had a quarterly conference call with mom's investment guy. His assistant had called me a week or so ago to set it up. I have a feeling last time he talked to her he realized she's probably not remembering much about it all, so she asked if I wanted to be in on it. Seems like a really nice guy and he started taking care of my parents investments about 30 years ago! She is still hovering at a total value of just under $1 million. I want to see it over a million just to take a screen shot, haha. Basically, he just kind of gave an overview of how he thinks the market is doing. Then talked about how her portfolio has been doing. Last year was great at 21% increase and this year has been better than he expected, at 12.29%, so still in double digits for her, while the S&P is up 9% this year.  He wants to sell a couple of stocks she owns. I didn't catch the purchase price of the first one, but the 2nd one, Intel, he said they bought at $9600 and now it's worth $37,000. So, he's going to sell those two stocks and put the money in her cash reserves. Overall he thinks, for the short term, it's best to reduce her investments in stocks by 5%, bringing her down to 44% of her money in stocks. He said she has quite a bit just in cash, but that gives him money to buy stocks cheap during the down times. Sounds like a good conservative plan.

And while I'm on that call my phone is getting texts. I hang up and it's Bank of America and her credit card has yet again got a fraud charge on it. I give up! As soon as we can close the BofA checking (I have to wait until SS transfers her deposit) I'm just closing the credit card, too. We'll just use her debit card with her new checking and see how that goes. 

My friend in town, who sometimes gets food to distribute, texted me last night that Thursday morning she will have frozen turkeys to give away. I was planning on going into town tomorrow or Friday anyway, to drop off our ballots at the courthouse, so I will stop and get a free turkey :).  Usually her free stuff goes pretty fast so I'd better get there when she starts at 10am, LOL.

DH has been a crab lately. I think it's because he's been out in his shop, still trying to figure out what to do with all his "stuff". I'm sure it's overwhelming, much of it brings back so many memories of our son, and I think he gets frustrated with himself that he can't get rid of anything. But, he has been hanging pictures and emptying those bins, so it's progress, even though small. He's always trying to get my opinion on where should he hang this picture of that picture. I swear to God, no matter what I say he will have a reason it can't go there. Honestly I could care less where he hangs any of them! If you have wall space you are designating for pictures, then just start putting them up! If it's wall space that's for future cabinets or whatever, then don't. 

It's been drizzling rain all week. I'm tired of wiping 8 wet/muddy paws off all day.