Axe Man
The Wife and I took out some bushes from our front yard over the weekend and replaced them with flowering plants. Taking out the bushes involved me chopping them out with an axe and then digging out the taproots with… Continue Reading
Soffit House
No More Fire
Thanks to all the well-wishers during the Crown Fire. The fire line wound up coming very close to the aqueduct near my house, but firefighters stopped its advance just shy of the structures there (including two houses where people who… Continue Reading
Crown Fire
At our usual Thursday night dinner tonight, one of the partners in the firm got called home early by his wife. A good thing, too, since the fire line for the north end of the Crown Fire has by now… Continue Reading
Guidelines For Dinner Parties At Soffit House
If you aren’t invited to dinner this time around, please don’t be offended. We can’t have everyone over all the time. We try to bring together interesting people interacting with one another. Singles are welcome to, but not obliged to,… Continue Reading
This Never Happens When I Play The Sims
Three in the morning comes and my bladder tells me it’s time for a short interruption in sleep. This problem is easy to solve. But the dogs hear me moving about and come in, demanding food. It’s earlier than their… Continue Reading
Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That…
How come when I get up in the middle of the night to pee I always step with my bare feet on the last remaining tack strip on the edge of the only carpet in the entire house?
Inspired By Hit Coffee: A Good Local Government Story
Inspired by this post over at Hit Coffee, I should point out two things that are good about the two municipal governments that I have noticed recently. First, Soffit House is located on the very edge, but still within the municipal… Continue Reading
Rear Bearing
When the rear bearing on your washing machine goes out, that pretty much means you need to replace it; it can cost nearly as much to fix that part as to replace the unit. Which pretty much sucks. When it… Continue Reading
The Covey In My Front Yard
Last year, a covey of quail moved in to my front yard. There were at least six chicks and at least two adults. Both had drab coloring, so they seemed to both be females. Then, a neighborhood cat was seen… Continue Reading
New Stuff
New oven. The Wife had several bad experiences with the old one — it never got hot enough, then it got too hot. The window cannot be cleaned. It doesn’t fit in with our decor. And the cast-iron spiders that… Continue Reading