What May Very Well Be The Best Valentine’s Gift Ever

Yeah, that’s right. I’m talking about the cooler above. Just hear me out. You see, our megatastic top-of-the-line, barely-two-month-old Samsung fridge fully crapped out on Sunday. Up and died. It doesn’t refrigerate. It doesn’t freeze. It doesn’t make ice, but it sure melts it good. Yep, this state-of-the-art appliance is now just a state-of-the-art piece …

Down The Drain

For as conscientious and proactive about the environment and resource conservation as I like to think I am there are things that happen that just make me scratch my head at what a lazy dummy I can be. Case in point: this spigot, which in the picture below you’re seeing in its deaththroes as a …

I’m So Proud Of Our Garage I Thought I’d Take A Picture Of It

(click for the bigger picture) Though our house was built in 1906, the garage that you see above wasn’t added until 1916. Not that the original owners didn’t have cars prior to that, it’s just that up until then I’d guess the north side of the house was probably a driveway that climbed up from …

We Was Framed!

When you last saw our beloved 1954/55 O’Keefe & Merritt Model 535-2 With Grillevator and Hi-Vue oven periscope, she was enjoying a new oven safety valve and functionality to all her burners, but was short a couple cosmetic elements in the form of the frames around the Grillevator vent and periscope window and that left …

Prison Break

In the small bathroom off our second bedroom, is a window. It’s about, I dunno… maybe a foot, foot-and-a-half wide; two, three feet tall. It opens outward, so the screen’s on the inside. At some point in the 104-year-old house’s history when the sketchiness of the neighborhood may have been the factor that led to …

The Great Backyard Grassacre Of 2010

If we haven’t reached (or maybe passed) the second anniversary of  the firing of our gardeners then it’s probably fast approaching. We shitcanned them after I caught them violating our adamant ban of gas-powered leaf blowers — whose residential use is against civic ordinance anyway, but it’s a mostly unenforceable statute most every corner-cutting sumbitch …