De-Winterizing

Tar, I hate to see what a really bad one looks like!

If the only concern was maybe screwing off a screen to flush out a faucet I wouldn't care. But I think I can safely bet the bank that it was flacks from this anode rod that plugged up my cold water supply at the bathroom sink while on an outing this past season. I ended up having to remove the faucet valve and blowing out the water line with compressed air to clear the obstruction of what looked like little whitish/silver flakes. Which is very suspiciously similar to my eye to this corroded anode rod. Maybe its just a coincident, maybe not, so why not remove, inspect and replace every so often, they are cheap enough.