It Wouldn't be a Party Without a Project

With this being the holiday season, I wasn't really working on any projects.  We've had something going most every night, so there really wasn't time to devote to the house.

Thursday night we had some friends over (Hi Mark and Rhonda!) for a lovely evening.  At that point everything was fine, but it wasn't to stay that way...

Yesterday (Saturday) was going to be a relatively lazy day so we could get ready for hosting a family gathering of 20-25 people on Sunday

Yeah, right...

Late in the morning my daughter came into the kitchen and said, "Dad, the bathroom floor is wet.  Did someone plug the toilet?"

I went to check it out and indeed the floor was wet.  But it wasn't from a plugged toilet.  The tank had cracked and was slowly dripping onto the floor...

If you look closely at the picture you can see the crack.  It runs from just above the flush lever down to the lower left corner of the tank.  You can also see the discoloration in the base tile where the water's been drawn up into the tile.  We'll have to see what happens to that when it dries out...

Needless to say, my lazy Saturday turned into a project day.  I had to quickly do some on-line research to see what toilets were in stock locally, pick one up, and install it before we went to my mother-in-law's for the evening.

I managed to get it all installed and one of the guests got to "christen" it this morning...