Right now I am looking at two approaches for patching an 18x18 inch hole in our 2nd floor hallway ceiling ( Read more... )

Dave fixed the truck. It is fine now. WHAT A RELIEF! I am ecstatic ( Read more... )

Somehow, this morning, I feel re-born ( Read more... )

To-day I bring my truck back in for service to investigate and, I hope, resolve the problem with the truck engine stalling ( Read more... )

I am definitely less worried about my truck. The folks at Madison Automotive put in a new fuel pump and it starts nicely. They also did an oil change. I don't think I will have to endure the terrible starting issue I had two weeks ago ( Read more... )

Sunday I repaired the half-bathroom toilet. What a mess! Cost was just under $20: the new-fangled non-ballcock valve certainly (as the plastic arm of the old ballcock had broken--it was more than 16 years old sitting over and in water!), a new flapper which is chlorine resistant (the old one was black rubber which was sort of a black goo, caused ( Read more... )

* Delbert is getting better. Less boney and more animated, he is less prone to do his thing in the house now, but we still worry about that ( Read more... )