Okay, so I haven't posted anything since mid-May. Yikes.

Let's see. What's been going on...
( Knitting things... )

 ...at least MONDAY. Yes, MONDAY. The plumber was supposed to come back in 45 minutes and so we made a mad dash cleaning the cat bathroom and the other bathrooms, and rearranging cats so it didn't appear like we have 10 cats in the house.  We then got a call from Richard telling us that it would be at least Monday before the plumber could come back ( Read more... )

So we now are having issues with our plumbing. Orange crystalline gunk is coming out of our pipes. One toilet's supply line has been completely blocked by it, and more is coming out of Mom's bathroom faucet. My google fu is saying it's to do with our water softener (that mom says we don't have, but I KNOW we do) not filtering correctly. Mom doesn't ( Read more... )

So, Thursday night, Richard the Landlord decided that it was just ridiculous and he would rent us a motel room for the night so we wouldn't die of heat exhaustion before they could install the new(er) condenser unit Friday morning. I ended up being the only one to go, because Mom didn't feel safe leaving the house open (if we had closed up all the ( Read more... )