Suddenly I’m Bob Villa? Not hardly.
I wanted to stain this vital component of our home security system (A stick that goes in the window frame) but it’s a dowel.
Grey Gardens West
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Let’s talk about toilets!
My family laughs at me because I am always singing the praises of our Kohler Cimmaron upstairs toilet. It truly is a “throne”. We bought it several years ago, and except for the time Teresa knocked a box of bathroom junk from the shelf above into the gaping maw, it has worked flawlessly. The trick…
Don’t forget your birds
I keep thinking we are all done moving out of our old house, but today I was upstairs, and happened to look up. THE BIRDS! I almost forgot the (paper mache?) colorful parrots we got at a yard sale so many years ago. The idea was to put in some jungle background sounds, and lots…
Do I smell gas or are you just glad to see me?
So apparently when I opened the furnace one evening, it blew out the gas light?
There’s something wrong with my Kit-kat.
I was trying to 3D print a funky little bin, with those bars on the SIDE, but it kept printing layer after layer. I got tired of waiting for it to start in on the walls. The result was something you might find behind an old vending machine. I need to find a better hobby….
A smooth mouse is a joy forever
Whenever I encounter a problem, I apply Hoarder’s Razor. This principle states that among competing hypotheses, the one with the most disgusting assumptions should be selected or when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the nastiest one is the better. Case in point; there was cat hair and/or some other…
Urban Coyote sounds like a poorly maintained box truck
There is a field behind our house, recently there is a new member of the coyote family, or maybe they are becoming urbanized?
My shovel dug up his own granddaddy
Clearing some sticker bushes in the way back of our property, and dug up this HUGE shovel head. It must have been for moving… coal? sand? gravel? I don’t know… It would take a bigger man than me to use a shovel like that. Maybe it had something to do with the Green Giant….
What is this thing, dad?
My father passed away a few years ago. He had a lot of neat old tools. A master craftsman, he was also a problem solver. My question is, what problem is this widget solving? It’s a little wedge shaped thing with an attached short dowel that can easily be rotated, but will stay in position…
