davidd's A Doll A Day 2019

[davidd]

The Flairies do sound like handy little souls and they do it all with a cheerful smile.

Their good-natured smiles helped keep me sane during the annoyance of this inconvenient episode. Of course, depending on toys and dolls to maintain my sanity probably speaks to at least some level of insanity.

Well, WD40, duct tape, glitter and, uh, magic words do seem to be perfect solution for any and every situation! I hope the pump will keep on pumping and no more adventures in The Halls of Gloom will be needed. Although, those mouse bones are actually quite cool!

There is a certain disturbing fascination to encountering animal skeletons in the wild.

Also: it looks like the two in the back are nattering about how the one in the front isn't doing any work at all, just posing.

They're possibly wondering why the doofus isn't spending more time trying to fix the well pump and less time playing with dolls.

Auwe!!  This sounds like the kind of thing I'd get into, and I'd be spending more time having tantrums than injecting dolly good cheer into it....

The tantrums were a-plenty, believe me. And after appearing to work properly for nearly 24 hours, the pump motor had another "episode" where it failed to start and the water pressure dropped to zero. There are now only two possibilities remaining: an intermittent problem with the well pump pressure switch (a $25 part and maybe an hour to replace), or an intermittent problem with the pump motor itself (a hideously eensive part that is well beyond being a DIY project).

A great way to "cheer up" an annoying but necessary home repair.

And its true - pretty much any home repair can be done with either duct tape or wD40 - and a liberal helping of "helpful" words.  And in this case, fairy glitter!

I had high hopes for the combination of fairy glitter and WD40. If I could figure out a way to work duct tape into the equation I would. 

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11 May – Waiting for Adventure

No adventure for Bratz Selfie-Snaps Yasmin and the boys today, thanks to more pesky "real world" priorities intruding on the real priorities like playing with toys and dolls.