Tales of Home Maintenance
Two tales, one trivial and one a little weirder, to relate for today's activities:
First, the hinge on my toilet seat snapped in two this morning. The lid fell and it just broke on impact. I would say that it scared the piss out of me, but I had already finished before it fell. I had to buy a new seat & lid this morning and I replaced it this afternoon. That was the trivial one.
Second, as I was mowing the back yard, I decided to mulch some of the leaves that had built up under the deck. As I was doing that, I noticed my blades were encountering an unusual amount of resistance in one area. By the time I pulled my mower away, I noticed a cable of some kind, with white insulation/coating, sticking out of the ground there, and chopped into three pieces: one coming out of the ground, one going into the ground, and one lying nearby that had been bridging the gap between the others. I wasn't sure if this was some bad electrical work. So, I had to get my multimeter and measured that whatever it was, there was no danger of electrocution. I dug it out, and it seems to have been some kind of hanging plant holder that had fallen and been mostly buried way before I owned the house. My lawnmower blades seem to be in OK shape despite trying to mow metal instead of grass. I, however, was so delayed by this that I only had time to finish the back yard before it was time to watch the NHL playoff games tonight. The front yard will have to wait until later this week.
First, the hinge on my toilet seat snapped in two this morning. The lid fell and it just broke on impact. I would say that it scared the piss out of me, but I had already finished before it fell. I had to buy a new seat & lid this morning and I replaced it this afternoon. That was the trivial one.
Second, as I was mowing the back yard, I decided to mulch some of the leaves that had built up under the deck. As I was doing that, I noticed my blades were encountering an unusual amount of resistance in one area. By the time I pulled my mower away, I noticed a cable of some kind, with white insulation/coating, sticking out of the ground there, and chopped into three pieces: one coming out of the ground, one going into the ground, and one lying nearby that had been bridging the gap between the others. I wasn't sure if this was some bad electrical work. So, I had to get my multimeter and measured that whatever it was, there was no danger of electrocution. I dug it out, and it seems to have been some kind of hanging plant holder that had fallen and been mostly buried way before I owned the house. My lawnmower blades seem to be in OK shape despite trying to mow metal instead of grass. I, however, was so delayed by this that I only had time to finish the back yard before it was time to watch the NHL playoff games tonight. The front yard will have to wait until later this week.