Hot water

For the past couple of days, we've had a few issue with our hot water heater.  I found out on Thursday that it wasn't heating up the water to full "scald your skin" hot.  Hubby got COLD water (snicker!).  The pilot light on the heater was out, so we re-lit it.
Friday morning, part two of the hot water heater saga.  Pilot light was out again.  A friend from work came over, showed me where the thermo-coupling was and re-lit the pilot light.  About two hours after he left, the pilot light was out again.   Now we're fairly sure we're going to have to replace the thermo-coupling.  Fortunately, it seems to be a fairly straight-forward fix.  We can do it ourselves.  It's just a copper tube to screw into the control on one end and put down near the burner on the other end.  Should be about a 15 minute fix.  We can hope it is, anyway!!