Not a good sign. One outlet in our livingroom just started sparking and quit passing electricity. There's another one in one of the bedrooms that also quit a while ago.
I have Duke Energy's electrical service contract, I think I'll call them.

Bah. I love my house, but I've known for a long time that wiring problems are going to be a perpetual

(oh my?)
We worked on tigersfan's resume ALL morning, and when I say we, I mean me, nikulai and skippyclese as well as tigersfan. It was actually surprisingly fun, and we spent a great deal of time joking around and picking on each other, and at the other end we got a pretty good resume' out of it. I'll do what I can to put in a good word ( Read more... )

Their Excellencies' party was fun - mellow and fairly low-key, with lots of small children around (three- in that tiny house, three unrelated small children is a LOT), plenty of yummy food and funky beers and fun people to talk to ( Read more... )

Septic tank backup ( Read more... )

A. and I spent the day working on the bathroom. I do have pictures, but I'm too fried to put them online right now. We started with bare wall and wound up with a lower shelf and most of the vanity/sink/counter up. The bathroom walls are not square, which makes for some odd gaps and problems here and there, but we managed to make pretty good ( Read more... )

Ok, now that the table saw is 3/4 complete and the bathroom is 2/3 complete and the mud room is complete except that the floor needs to be re-redone and Nate and I painted the porch steps, it's time to think about painting the house! We should have done it last year, but we had major attacks of life. The house is covered in vertical wood siding, ( Read more... )

I FINISHED MY TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 9:15 am today. Refund on its way within 10 days, probably less. Refinancing to follow shortly. Bathroom to follow soon.

So, what do you do with drywall that's left over from tearing a hole in the wall? You use it to patch the ceiling, of course!
( big pictures here, of my ceiling. )

While I was at work today, my husband knocked a hole in the wall of our living room.

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I hope this is mostly fiction, but somehow I doubt it. I think that next year is going to be very nasty for the average joe in this world ( Read more... )