The Plumber

Meet Mez...Mez is our plumber and now.. our friend.

Because with an 80 year old house you better like your plumber, you're going to see him ALOT.

Mez Mezera is originally from Chicago I believe.. something I asked him the first time I met him over a year ago.. "Remember Tim the tool guy's friend. Al??" I was like, that voice.. who is that???"
Here are three things I like about Mez.. Number 1.
He's a kick ass plumber. He's like the John Wayne of plumbers..He answers his phone AND he works a hundred times faster than the average plumber. I think that's three things in one..

(notice the red and blue plumbing in this picture, the thing that looks like hula hoops)
Apparently it expands and won't freeze. IN LOVE WITH THIS IDEA.
Number 2. He's such a calm person.
Me:(arriving home from trying to run with Mia and almost dying I'm so out of shape)...
Mez: Hey Robin, have some things to show you..
Me: oh I don't know anything about this mess..
Mez: Sure you do.. let's take a walk..
See this, this and this... and this pipe out here has totally burst and needs to be replaced as along with what we're doing today. It's going to cost a million dollars and I don't want to have to dig that mess up, but it's a huge leak and running up your water bill..
Me: I guess you'll have to tell Shawn...we have to do it though..
Mez: He wanted me to tell YOU..(he laughs)
ME: of course he did...

Why you ask? Because when Shawn and I have something thrown at us like that.. we close the door and Sid and Nancy appear, and it's so much easier when a nice sweet person like Mez breaks the news to you.. like when people go to a public place to break up with someone. Good move Shawn.
Number 3. He has the coolest family.
His wife Audrey, a wonderful singer songwriter, this shot is from a shoot we did together.
She's from?? guess?? look at the globe....

AUSTRALIA. Too cool.
Mez travels to gigs with his good friends Cora and Gypsy.. They are something else.

Look at this girl.. it's safe to say that she loves pretzels and cheerios..

This is Gypsy.. she is not as willing to let me get up in her grill like I do Cora, but SWEET all the same. They just hang with Mez and Kurt.. oh here's Kurt.

Oh that's not Kurt, that's Shawn and not his butt crack.. as he so eloquently put it. He's prepping the tub to apply a new liner and then later paint texture onto the walls that is so strong you can smell it in Little Rock. Or maybe that's just my PMS nose.. you know how that goes.
Me: Shawn I can still smell that stuff, I'm tasting it!!! and I was only in the house for three minutes..
Shawn: Stop calling me!
Me: I'm calling so that you will put a fan in the studio so the poor boys staying there tonight will live to see another day and survive these deadly fumes.. I can taste it Shawn!
Shawn: I can't smell anything...
Me: Or hear anything but that's not the point. Love you. Bye.
Shawn: Bye.

Here's Kurt.

with this plumber's rubik's cube thing after working all day.
And here...

is our old nasty plumbing from olden days. I am very fond of the colorful hoola hoop plumbing. I don't feel like I'm being poisoned for one, and two it's so bright and shiny.
AND after all that, Mez capped off the old broken pipe in the front yard and connected it to some secret hidden pipe that was in the ground (I know.. a giant pain in the ass diverted) it was like he handed me $1200 dollars.
Thank you Mez. And I'll see you on Monday for more Plumbing Adventures.