Sunday snippets, slide through to Monday

What is different in this picture... The outlet is no longer directly behind the faucet. Yes, the former owners did some very very odd things to Acorn Cottage, things that will take years to discover and correct. (remember the sink plumbing held together with putty?) For some reason they also placed the bathroom outlet literally directly behind the faucet at sink level, which seemed really unsafe (water+electricity= bad idea)...

I'd opened up the wall a while ago, when dealing with the soggy bathtub trim, and enlarged the opening to see if the outlet could be shifted. Not only did they leave no slack in the wiring, but the protective box had the entire back sliced off and was wedged between the sheetrock and the black iron vent pipe. (now I'm not an electrican, but somehow that strikes me as completely wrong!). At the time, all that was possible was to carefully tape up all the connections and seal it off behind a piece of plexiglass to create a water barrier...

Thanks to help and some supplies from my dear friend B, there is a tidy junction box holding conduit that extends wiring to the edge of the stud beside the sink area, a much more appropriate location, and a GFCI outlet encased in a proper housing. Now, it will be possible to seal off the area between the sink and the medicine cabinet, hmmm, mosaic tile might be a pretty option, must think further on the desired effect...

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As there were organic "Cherry Bomb" peppers at the store Saturday, a new batch of Awesome Sauce is in the works. My supposedly brilliant new idea was to put it all in the crockpot to cook overnight. Cook it certainly did, but not cook down - the lid being on precluded any evaporation, so currently there is a deep red-brown savory/sweet sauce that is thin as syrup. Not sure whether simply cooking it down would be best, or adding in more peeled diced tomato. Decided that adding in additional ingredients would be the best option for a save, so another 400g peeled chopped tomato, more ginger, more garlic, about three T lime juice, and another cupful of sugar. Cooked down properly on the stovetop, but it still is thinner than the last batch - 'tis okay, it is a condiment, and need not be precisely the same each time.