Gardening Disaster
Sunday morning revealed a gardening disaster — some dog had come along and dug up all of the sprouting green beans. No more green beans in our garden. Damn dogs better stay away from my f’ing peppers, is all I… Continue Reading
Soffit House
My Enemy
The tests this morning proved that most of my allergy therapy back in Tennessee did me a lot of good. I do not show up as having a significant allergic reaction to pollens, grasses, and other plants up here —… Continue Reading
Sitting Outside
The Wife was watching a TV show on her computer, and the volume was really loud. With lots of people shouting. And I just wanted to go out and write, and think about my presentation Wednesday, and so I took… Continue Reading
Happy Anniversary A Little Bit Early To TL And Wife, Signed, The Next Generation Of Taxpayers
With our economic stimulus payment from the government set to arrive this week, The Wife and I decided to go get our anniversary present to ourselves a little bit early, so that we’d have time to enjoy it. Our stimulus… Continue Reading
The Fix Is In
A service call from Time Warner Cable came out to Soffit House Saturday. The guy was very nice and he took a lot of time to look around and figure out what the problem was. Eventually, he decided to swap… Continue Reading
Just A Few Minutes
I moved my computer station from the office to the kitchen yesterday, mainly to catch up on the nearly 100 posts in the various blogs that I read which had accumulated over a couple of days while I ate breakfast.… Continue Reading
I Can Haz Caulk Instead?
While working on the house over the weekend, The Wife found cracks in the seals around the windows. So our double-pane seals are all gone — and we may be leaking heat into the environment, and come summer we’ll be… Continue Reading
Impromptu Attic
The Wife finally shamed me into working with her to clean out the garage. It was an all-day project but we got the job done. There is now an immense pile of trash and stuff we’re purging out on the… Continue Reading
Weekends Are Light
The past couple of weekends, I haven’t blogged at all. Too busy, then too lazy. Mowing the lawn consumes energy and time. Then other stuff has to get done that there’s no time for during the work week, taking care… Continue Reading
Look, Honey, We’re Suburbanites Again!
Happily, the replacement lawn mower worked. By the time I got to the front lawn yesterday, most of the grass was a good nine inches tall and some of the neighbors were no doubt wondering if we’d abandoned the house.… Continue Reading