Miss Thing came back and picked up some more of her things. Still some left. She had a huge attitude and ran into hysterics. Claims some of her stuff is missing. Gave me back my busted computer without a word. I am never doing this again.

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Water is still coming in my basement. Now I suspect that dorking around with the downspout has made it leak at the top where it connects to the gutter ( Read more... )

I did some more plastering in the downstairs bathroom today. Yanno, for the fan/light we got about a month ago ( Read more... )

When a house is as old as mine, 1917, you figure about 15 people have owned it and worked on it. Some of them were complete idiots ( Read more... )

Today, I took a couple more of the itty bitty, haphazardly installed 2 footish long shelves from the garage and put them in the old coal room in our basement. Most of the houses here have had that coal room taken out. I'm glad we still have ours and most likely would have put it back in if it was gone. I love tools, and love having a tool room. I ( Read more... )

I have been trying 2-3 weeks now to get Meatball to use his paw to push open doors that are partly open. The idea is starting to get on his last nerve.  Tonight he wasn't standing close enough to the door for me to get his paw and use it to close the door so when I tried to scoot him closer he laid down on the floor and began sliding backwards, ( Read more... )