Here are just a few things I've learned about smoke detectors this week ( Read more... )

Sometime after we moved in, they paved our walk. In the middle of the walk was a drain. The walk sank and the drain was floating above the path and was less than useful. We also have a low point in our driveway, so I decided the best way to remedy this was to get someone to dig up the asphault walk and for me to dig out the drain, replace it with a ( Read more... )

Been a little busy with the trip to Pittsburgh to help my mom buy a car and then Black Ships ( Read more... )

finally got around to using the extension on the power wash. Not only was it not tall enough, it was very hard to control and the tip kept spinning on me. Huge fail. Much disappointment. I think it's time for professionals, but so much wasted money invested in the machine and extension.

Since I undeniably live in suburbia now and, more importantly, because my house is growing green stuff, I bought a pressure washer ( Read more... )

Just some quick notes ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd jot some quick notes ( Read more... )

Grr... the pavers broke the sprinkler system and the builder has been such a pain in the butt that I'm likely just going to fix it myself.

Oh well, minor annoyance.

EDIT: scratch that. Woo! i have paving and a sprinkler system that can be broken!

It's been about a year since we moved in. (We moved in several waves and apparently I didn't document exactly when we first slept here.) And so far, very good. The house cracks that scared me at the start haven't gotten much bigger, if at all. Most of the work the builders were supposed to have done got done and G has mostly adapted to driving ( Read more... )

So avacon happened to be getting rid of a over the range microwave, that happened to be the right size and he just happened to being going north today, so he kindly dropped it off ( Read more... )