You're not going to believe this. I think I've heard of something like this happening, but I've never experienced it, until now. I woke up this morning and took a shower about a quarter 'til 7. I noticed the water wasn't very hot, and it seemed to run out kinda fast. Usually, I'm the only one using water at this time and I can take a long HOT shower without problem. Didn't think much of it. I figured maybe somebody beat me to it and used up a lot of hot water.

I've been very busy around here and just now thought about blogging all of my progress. Here's what I've done so far.

In our apartment (I had to make this liveable before doing much else):
1) Textured walls and ceilings
2) Painted
3) Installed ceramic tile in living room
4) Installed linoleum tile in kitchen/dining room
5) Hung entry door
6) Hung two ceiling fans
7) Troubleshoot electrical problem
8) Installed hardwood laminate flooring in master bedroom
9) Hung light in kitchen
10) Framed built in base cabinets and installed sink and counter top
11) Built solid pine wall cabinet with raised panel doors for kitchen
12) Installed tile in master bath
13) Hooked up shower and stool in master bath
14) Hung drywall in master bath

Things are going great here in Chapultapec, Mexico. As most of you probably know, I've moved here for about a year to work on an orphanage that is in great need of repair. This building was started some 16 years ago and the place was never finished. The owner died and so there was no one to do the work. My family has moved down here to get things fixed up so that they can house more children and poor families.

There are several apartment style rooms in this building. Most of these have only drywall hung. There is also a lot of water damage due to a leaky roof.

There's a couple of things about drywalling, and I wanna make one thing very clear. I get a lot of questions and I see a lot of mistakes about this. Number one, when you finish drywall, when you mud it, you're gonna need to put three coats of mud on that drywall. Don't think that you can go through there and just put one thick coat, it's not gonna work.

Drywall mud shrinks when it drys and when that happens, you might get little cracks and especially if you do a really thick coat like that.

This week I've got a little bit of helpful information on your garbage disposal.

This is another one of those things where a lot of times people will make a call to a plumber, and that's usually a call that does not need to be made and you're going to spend a lot of money that you can probably just keep in your pocket. So let's get right to it.