Spring Has Sprung For Now, and I Have Photos To Prove It
I experienced something very odd the other day: I tried to get the lawn mower started, and I did. First time. It took all of twenty minutes to fill the gas and oil, check the […]
Tag: home maintenance
Nice Fall, Have a Good Trip
It was a strange day, in that I did home maintenance work, but didn’t get hurt. Not exactly. I closed all the storm windows, and replaced some screens. I still have creases in some of […]
Revenge of the Water Heater
The thing about a water heater is that it’s supposed to heat water–hence the name–and then hold aforementioned heated water until you let it out. If the water gets out before you want it to, […]
Worst Home Maintenance Fail Ever, Explosions Excluded
When I opened my blog this morning, I found that all my visitor stats had disappeared. (They popped back into existence a few hours later, having apparently undergone some kind of existential crisis. I’ve been […]
Water Heater Mayhem
A certain percentage of the population will insist that if they can do something, it’s easy for anyone to do. Example: I take a woodworking class in high school (because an industrial arts class was […]
Holy Hole, Batman
The short version is, a sinkhole opened up in my back yard. More disturbing, it was only a few feet from the side of my house. Not to worry, though—it was just a small sinkhole. […]
How I Ruined Winter … For Almost Everyone
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK I love January! Said no one, ever. Okay, some people actually do love winter, which just goes to show you: Northern Indiana needs better mental health screening. I used […]
The Fall of The Conservative Lawn Mower
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK With the purchase of a brand new lawn mower, only the third new one I’ve ever bought, I said goodbye to my conservative lawn mower. (So named because it stopped […]
Working up a sweat trying to get warm
Trying to get my forty year old home heating system up and running for the season. Very nice, even heat from hot water radiators, when and if I can get it to work. Fire and […]
Doctor Who and the dry humor
Matt Smith came to my house to help figure out why my clothes dryer isn’t running—he even used his sonic screwdriver on it. He discovered it is indeed getting supplied with power … but it […]