egellia

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No matter what they tell you, fixing up old houses is not fun! After a certain number of disasters, though -- for us it was when our electrician wound up in rehab -- you can learn to laugh about it. Provided that you keep the cocktails coming...

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Day 44: If You Can't Stand The Heat...

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So I wrote before about this window in the kitchen. How Johnny changed the sash already but it keeps slipping off the pulley. How we spent 45 sweaty minutes together trying to make it right, but four times it slipped off again until finally we said “Screw it, we don’t need no open window in the kitchen anyhow.” Well, it’s almost August, and it turns out we do. I’ve decided over the intervening months that the problem is Johnny used nylon clothesline cord, which is slippy, and if I just replace it with good cotton sash cord it will work... »MORE

July 25, 2007

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Day 43: Window Mistreatment

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I actually didn’t feel like doing anything today, because I’m sunburned and I’m tired and it’s a grand, soft day outside, and it just feels like a good day to crawl back in bed with the newspapers I never got around to reading yesterday… But I didn’t do anything yesterday, and I didn’t really do anything on Saturday, and I didn’t do anything on Friday either, and – yeesh, now that I’m looking I really haven’t done anything much around here since the joint compound incident last Tuesday. Phone calls, furniture pick-ups, poetry – none of that counts as work... »MORE

July 23, 2007

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bruno

July 02, 2007

Thanks for all your posts! Always a good read...

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