Just catching up on some notes...we received the itemized claim from the insurance adjuster for damage to our house from August's hailstorm ( Read more... )

Sometimes you just need a little space for posting your wins!

So, as most of you know, IKEA furniture isn't meant to last or be moved around too much, and it is certainly not meant to be disassembled and reassembled more than once ( Read more... )

Just logging a note about Monday's hailstorm. Calgary famously gets one or two massive hailstorms every August. It's not a sign of climate change--it's something that just happens every year and I've lived here 30 years. Many a homeowner can credit a hailstorm for a new roof :D ( Read more... )

The junk truck made it's annual pick-up of household hazardous waste, e-cycling and donations. I wish I could get hubs to budge on some of the e-cycling. We have at least three Rubbermaid totes of cables, dongles and doo-dads taking up space. I have my own stash of cables for e-cycling hubs doesn't know about :-D ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in my previous post, the motor on the furnace conked out. Even though it's not winter, it was getting down to 66 F and that's a bit chilly for the birds ( Read more... )

We had a surprise faucet installed on Wednesday. Since we had a few leaky points, we hired a plumber to come out and fix the outdoor valves and the kitchen faucet. The kitchen faucet was drippy and despite attempts to demineralize it, it kept leaking. I guess plumbers just drive around with fully stocked vans because he had one available right away ( Read more... )

The junk truck came today and I'll remember when I book them next year that they do crawl spaces. I was going to give them some really large boxes in the crawl space but I hit my head on the crawl space door and decided it was too much of an effort for a Monday morning ( Read more... )

LOL this is what gets one excited in middle-age--glide-out ShelfGenie drawers so you don't have to bend or reach so far ;-D


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Mostly just a note to myself to log we had the ducts cleaned and it was $278. It's been a while since we had it done--I want to say at least five years. I'm sure the truck had a rainbow of feathers in it :D

We were blessed with a new city sidewalk on the side of our house. Being on a corner has its pros and cons and it was delightful to get a new sidewalk. Our neighbourhood will be 30 years old in 2028 and a lot of things around here are showing their age. The neighbours are great about keeping up their yards and houses, but there are literal cracks ( Read more... )