Geek Survival Skills
[Geek Alert...] I’ve been on a roll fixing up and beautifying the front and back yards here at Casa del Garrett. Among other items, I bought four solar powered Tiki torches for the backyard. They’re...
View ArticleAdventures In Home Ownership…(continued)
Came down a few moments ago to find the washing machine had not spun my load of shirts and wouldn’t open the door (it’s a front loader). Crap, thinks I…considering I might have to call for service and...
View ArticleI Can Fix It!
Today’s backyard task is getting the water fountains running and mow the expansive Casa del Garrett lawn. I have two small illuminated water fountains for the backyard, one shaped to look like a small...
View ArticleStaff…That’s What I Am…Staff…
They say cats don’t have owners, they have staff, and the same might be said of little Baltimore rowhouses…like on days like today when the sky is blue and the air is clear and clean and crisp and your...
View ArticleWhen Mr. Fixit Is Done With You, You’re Done
I learn some lessons the hard way, usually by way of stubbornness. I hate the idea of just throwing things that break away, even if the cost of buying it in the first place was cheap. But I have spent...
View ArticleOld Enough To Remember When TV Came Over The Airwaves
And perfectly willing to go back to it. I finally got around to cancelling my DirectTV service today, after years of hemming and hawing about it. My viewing habits have declined a lot since I was...
View ArticleLike A Good Neighbor…(continued)
Came home to find a letter from the Maryland State Insurance Commissioner’s Office, telling me that they’d convinced State Farm to cancel my car insurance premium hike and refund the money Plus...
View ArticleWhy I Never Get Any Work Done Outside
I keep waiting for spring to happen here in Maryland, and I keep forgetting that central Maryland is one of those places where the weather gets squirrely this time of year. One minute it’s finally...
View ArticleThe Bidet…A Couple Weeks Later
So…the bidet… And if you think this is oversharing feel free to change the channel. But some people expressed interest in how well the thing actually works. Just to recap, I bought one of those bidet...
View ArticleMust Be November
Ummmm…sixty-three degrees in the living room this morning. Must finally be time to turn on the furnace. Ah…the smell of the first gas fired furnace heat of the season…
View ArticleAdventures In Home Ownership…(continued)
So it seems my central AC compressor has failed beyond repair now and it’s time for a new one. No worries about my situation…I have two window units I can depend on to keep the critical rooms in the...
View ArticleDealing With A Heatwave And Mosquitoes
I’ve taken to putting out a bowl of ice next to the water bowl on the porch when it gets this hot. The calico won’t have anything to do with the ice, but when it’s halfway melted she’ll drink from that...
View ArticleOh What A Lovely Day To…Stay Home And Do Housework…
Well…lawn and garden work. It’s another lovely day outside and I’m strongly tempted to take a drive somewhere with one or more of my cameras because I don’t know how many more of these we’ll have...
View ArticleThe Dead Birds That Saved Lives…
Sometime after I bought the house the furnace that was in it suffered a cracked heat exchanger and my CO detectors went off. Since just then I didn’t know for certain what was causing my CO detectors...
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