35F and cloudy @ 18:30, heading down to around 30F for the low in the overnight. Highs in the 30's/40's for the rest of the Ten Day ...
Helo - sorry the kid had to witness that tragic incident.
Went to bed around 22:00 on Friday night and slept around 4 hours until around 02:30 or so when I woke and got up. Made a double helping of oatmeal. Was up until around 06:00 and then went back to bed until 14:00.
Woman had made plans to go out with neighbor lady to some kind of Riverdance-type thing @ the Goodyear Theater last night. Neighbor lady brought her new squeeze along so She got to meet him. Woman wasn't hoping for much but ended up quite impressed with the performance.
I took the opportunity of Her being gone to do the gas line work that involved shutting off the main valve coming into the house. First order of business was vacuuming all the cobwebs around the main electrical panel so I could put its cover back on. Main gas valve is directly above that panel and I wasn't going to mess around getting up there with the cover off. Long overdue.
Valve hasn't been turned in probably 40 years and was a little stiff but I used a combination wrench as a cheater and got it shut off no problem.
Then I shut the water heater off.
After that I started removing the gas lines. The first was the supply going to the downstairs fireplace. That yielded one 93" piece of 3/4" pipe, two 66" pieces of 1/2" pipe, two 1/2" gas valves, one 1/2" union, one female 3/4" ---> 1/2" reducer and a number of shorter 1/2" pipe pieces and 1/2" 90 elbows. The line feeding that got plugged with a 3/4" pipe plug.
After that I removed valve/capped stub line that fed the incinerator before we removed and junked it. That yielded a 3/4" ---> 1/2" reducer, another 1/2" gas valve, and some 1/2" nipples and a cap. Swapped in a 3/4" 90 street elbow ---> 3/4" nipple ---> 3/4 gas valve ---> 3/4 plug.
All joints were doped and sprayed with leak detector to check for leaks. then I went ahead and turned the main gas valve on and checked all the joints for leaks. Even sprayed down the main gas valve while I was turning it back on ... just to make sure ...
So now I can finish running the rest of the hard pipe for the gas line to the garage without having to shut off the main gas valve for the house.
At that point I decided I'd take a stab at replacing the water heater anode (finally !!!) ... no soap ... the B&D impact driver wouldn't touch it even with repeated attempts. Will have to give it a try with the 1/2" air-operated Craftsman. So I went ahead and turn the water heater back on and relit the pilot.
Got the shelving at the northwest corner of utility room moved and got the cobwebs in the area up in the floor joists where the gas and electric will pass into the garage vacuumed while I was at it.
Woman was relieved on Her return to see there were no explosions and the house was still standing.
With that all handled I headed back up to the garage later and went back to untangling and sorting through the 6 gauge wire to feed the sub panel. There is plenty enough to run the feed, although there some nicks in the outer casing in spots. But nothing a little heat-shrink tubing can't handle.
Also got the drop leg doped up and assembled, coming down from the gas line on the ceiling. Still need to install the manual gas valve and automatic safety shutoff on that.
Went to bed around 08:00 this morning, got up around 15:00 and caught the second half of the Browns/Jaguars game
Woman made a pot of beef stew this afternoon, was very tasty ...
Not sure what I'll get into this evening.
Torpedo heater is down to around 1/4 tank.
Hope everyone is having a decent Sunday ...
I was always getting into some type of mischief!! Some how I still have all my fingers ! 
