Today was a productive day for house work. Due to yesterday’s long travel hours back from the west coast, my manager told me to take today off. So after getting some needed extra sleep I began work on a couple of projects. The first was my first attempt at replacing a sprinkler head on my own. The actual work of digging out the failing head and physically replacing it with the new one was rather simple. The part I struggled with was properly aligning the left and right edges of the watering area along with the height and distance of the spray. I previously had a head replaced by someone else who ran a side business performing this work and he made it seem a lot simpler than I found it to be. However, after some struggling and a bit of googling I was able to get it configured properly. If I ever need to do another one, which seems likely all things considered, hopefully this experience will make it a little easier.  The second project is something that I am getting good at, that being patching holes within the garage. This particular one was a bit tricky because it was located above the cabinets above the sink to the left of the house door. Additionally there is a wire conduit that runs directly over the area that needed to be patched. I was able to loosen the conduit enough to get the patch piece in place though, and then put everything back in its original location. I now only have one hole left to patch and that is over the back door. I’m getting good at this….