When I first moved into my house, the ceiling of the kitchen had extensive water damage. I got the roofed fixed, and then patched, but I didn't get the dry wall repaired. Later on plaster in the dining room and stairwell started to crack, and there was the water damage upstairs this past winter. In other words, it's been on the list for ages undone ( Read more... )

As foretold some years ago, and as foreshadowed even more clearly by the leaks this past winter, I had to get a new roof on my house this year. The roofer's finished up last week, so now I have a new roof, plus new gutters and gutter guards, as well as some new attic venting ( Read more... )

I learned that the water department in my town is really on the ball last week, and it's probably only going to cost me an enormous water bill.

I went to a ball game a few Mondays ago (the A's beat Cleveland in a game that went to the last pitch), and with the 6:10pm start I went straight to the stadium from work. As such, M was the one to return ( Read more... )

Way back in 2012 I got some estimates for having central air conditioning installed in my ductless house. At that time, the estimates were far beyond my ability (or at least desire) to pay, so I stuck with a single window unit instead ( Read more... )

Back in 2015 I was told that I'd most likely need a new roof in 4 or 5 years. I had originally planned to get some estimates this spring, but that process was accelerated when M woke me up to report that water was coming dripping down the bedroom wall. Upon examining the other rooms, I found that the dry wall in the blue bedroom had some water ( Read more... )

After I assessed last year's resolutions, I was frustrated with how little decluttering I'd done. I therefore found a new way to break up the work into smaller pieces and to put those pieces into focus. Having done that, in the intervening three weeks I ( Read more... )

Last weekend was apparently so exhausting that it took most of this weekend just to write this recap!

Friday night M and I used a gift card for Sweet Melissa that I had won in an a raffle late in 2017. The restaurant was nearly completely empty, which was totally at odds with how it was when I went there back in 2016. My salad was still good, but ( Read more... )

11 years and a few months after I transferred my landline to this house, I have turned it off. With last summer's acquisition of a cell phone, it rapidly became apparent that spending the extra money to have two phones made no sense. Frankly, there were only reasons that the landline lasted this long. The first was that the service desk that ( Read more... )

I'm not sure this quite the bucket list stuff I had in mind in my resolution, but here's a list of stuff to do to my house. Some were more M's idea than mine. It should also be noted that I did at most two of the things from the last time I did a list like this for my house. I'll try to keep this to small obtainable things instead of giant items.

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Last January there was a hole in my house that allowed squirrels to enter the covered porch. One exterminator later five squirrels had been removed and the whole was closed ( Read more... )