Day Two of the Toilet Tank gear replacement:
I've remembered what the difficulty is with this setup: when they plumbed the toilet they didn't use a standard size water outlet on the pipe that comes through the wall that has the on-off handle. The flexible replacement toilet water line is too small to screw on. I'm heading out to Lowe's with the old nut and the new line and will either exchange the line for a regular sink water line (I suspect that's the size they used) or see if I can get an adaptor. The goal is to not have a plumber come $weat off the old valve and put on a new one.

Otherwise, that job is going fine. The instructions are clear and once I get past this it's only a couple of more steps to finish.

This morning a friend came by for a few minutes to drop off plants thinned from her garden, so while I waited for her I planted a new small rosemary near where the last big one was that died. I suspect that old one was unusual in how large and long-lived it was.

I hear lawnmowers running in the neighborhood, the March Canadian cognate would be snow blowers. :)