I also replaced the shower head. The original stem on the shower has a ball end shower head adapter. There was a few profanities thrown out after I removed the old shower head to find this THING there that wouldn't accept my standard 1/2" water-saving shower head. Eesh. The adapter for that was $7. A bit steep, but I'm trying to avoid Walmart as much as possible and keep the money as local as possible. The Main Street hardware store is as local as one can spend their money in this town.
The garbage disposal is proving to be useless, so we may be replacing that after all. We're sending very little through it since starting the compost pile. Speaking of which, I plan on making a compost bin this weekend. Some 2x4's, some hinges, and hardware cloth, and I should be good to go. However, getting the wood home from the lumber yard in my Ford Focus might prove interesting. I should be able to sweet talk the guys there into pre-cutting it for me - we'll see!
