Got him. Second attempt.
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vicious garden raiders
Vicious raiders invaded the front garden. They forced their way through the electric fence barricade then stood brazenly outside the house, ruminating, without remorse. Untold amounts of fodder was stolen from the property.
what? a sham
I was reading through our community newsletter this morning and found an ad (redacted).
I had to ask HFT what a sham was. It apparently is a decorative cover for pillows – not a pillowcase, but a cover for them.
Is that where the phrase, “What a sham!” comes from? Something useless but pleasant to look at?
The only sham in my house is the state of my housekeeping skills.
cleaning the bathtub
Our Christmas dinner guest (TF) is coming so it is time to get the house cleaned up. The last item on the cleaning list: the bathtub. After coming home covered in dust, the bathtub gets a little grotty. But my shoulder and wrist is tired and sore from work. So how to clean?
Allan cleaning bathtub with nylon brush on drill 20241225_123846.mp4
Don’t judge me.
plugged up heat vent
It all started when someone forgot to turn down the heat at night. Usually Floyd does, but sometimes it is me. I woke up with a headache.
The conversation turned to how cool it is in Floyd’s bedroom (the north end of the house). Mom & Floyd had a dresser left over from another bedroom set. Mom has been gone for a while now, but the cabinet remained there. It had been reorganized a few times but essentially remained there. The issue is, it covered a heat register.
I said, “Why don’t we just drill holes in the bottom of it to let some heat out? So last night Floyd and I did that.
There are holes on the side, too, closer to the window.
What do you mean, I’m miserly?
green mystery
This is weird, almost as weird as the hidden receptacle (see hidden power). For the past several years, there was a green tinge of … well, a kind of goo, stuck to one of the receptacles in the kitchen. I often wondered, “Where is this green coming from?” I wracked my brain (but not much of a brain wrack – just a things-that-make-you-go-hmm kind of wrack), wondering what would cause it.
I finally figured it out. My Mom must have dribbled a little green food colouring on the end of the cord to the mixer. The mixer is about 45 or 50 years old – a Sunbeam, I think. Every time I beat some whipping cream, I got some green on the outlet. Duh.
The funny thing is, Mom hated the colour green.
Frigidaire freezerless fridge
Our new refrigerator came yesterday.
Floyd has a hard time stooping over to see what is crammed into the back, stuffed into a corner, or relegated to the bottom of the old fridge. He can’t get down on his knees to see under the freezer level. Food that gets forgotten gets rotten. But all the freezerless fridges out there are right-hand swing (hinges on the right) and does not fit out kitchen. This Frigidaire was the first and only all-fridge model that had a reversible door that wasn’t six thousand dollars. So, after a few years of looking and thinking and comparing, I found this fridge at Home Depot.
flooring
I was going to put “new flooring” as a heading and realized that the flooring I’m using at home is not new. It’s rejected pieces from 520. They just need to be scraped and scrubbed clean of debris to stick to the floor.
We had a sewer backup. It seeped into the bathroom and entrance flooring layers that were put down over time. It all had to be taken up. There was wood laminate with foam cushion, then linoleum, then more linoleum. Out it came.
That was about 1.5 years ago. Yes, it’s taken a long time! I’ve been busy.
work bench work
While Floyd is in Saskatchewan, I’m here. I delivered him there but found I had nothing to do, so I drove back again and started this project.
Whenever I try to do something heavy, like using the vice, the bench hops around and prevents any serious work being done. It wasn’t fastened to the walls – it was just sitting directly on the plastic shelving (see pics).
So I pulled it all apart.
