Immediately before noticing the wee beastie I took a basket of clean laundry Joe just brought in from the garage, and dropped it on the floor. I then grabbed  something off my dresser and turned around and saw the wee thing ( Read more... )

We have this infestation of ROUSs in our garage (so we thought). We put out traps, no dice. After a week we called a professional. He put out traps and sprayed a couple of things outside. After a week he came back out to see how things were doing. No ROUSs caught. He re-baited the traps and left in a cloud of cigarette smoke (no he didn't smoke ( Read more... )

I have this wall in my entryway. When we moved in I attempted to create a wall of initialed hooks. Cool idea. The hooks were too wimpy for the job and fell out one by one over the last few years, and in addition I had left several test holes in the wall when I installed them. The plaster was even falling off in some places. It looked awful.

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After waiting 6 weeks (!!!!!) PG & E finally came out and took out the e-meter and installed the one that can run in both directions...and I got to turn on the solar panels. After being on for an afternoon...its in the negative!!! This is so cool!

Hanging pictures and artwork? I have empty walls and lots of pictures and needlework to hang up, but I have no talent in making it look good ( Read more... )

I was outside playing with the kids today for most of the afternoon. Between 4 & 5 I noticed that it was getting hazy, and the sunlight was turning orange....it felt more like fall sunlight, than height of summer sunlight. By 7 it looked like this


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Last night while Joe was taking a turn at kid wrangling, Ike and Gwen threw all the books on the left side of our paperback bookshelf on the floor. (Joe was putting Elli to sleep ( Read more... )

I have beautiful couch cushions!

But no couch.

Must look into this.