Cold? I sneer at cold!
It’s below 70 degrees, but that doesn’t seem to bother Abby. From Events
Archive of posts filed under the Around the House category.
A holiday ritual
Our microwave ovens seem to break around the holidays. Ten years ago one died in the midst of Thanksgiving dinner preparation. More recently we had to replace one around July 4th. I don’t know why. Anyway, last night I pressed the push button to open the door of the thing to reheat a cup of …
Cold water worked
On what? On the tablecloth which had several cranberry relish stains on it. I soaked the spots in a bowl of cold water Thanksgiving night and it appeared I got it all out then, but running it through the washing machine with the matching napkins was the full test. And they came out. Phew!
Roaster marketing
Hey, look! A commercial for the roaster I plan to cook turkey in this afternoon! Yep, we still own one from the 1950s. It still works fine, although I think the “On” light doesn’t come on until the desired heat is reached rather than during preheating. I’ll find out a little later if that’s right.
Applause for a cleaner
Way back when I got a stainless steel hot tray for Christmas. I tried my hardest to keep it clean, but it got stained pretty badly from all the bottoms of thousands of pans and Pyrex microwave dishes and platters and stuff that have rested on it. I tried Comet, I tried liquid soaps, I …
Pricey Sunday
Our home water pressure has been a little above normal for quite a while now, although I didn’t know that that’s what was causing me to hear water running anywhere in the house at a specific corner of the playroom. Over the past few days, though it got really really loud. So I called a …
Post-Halloween chores
Trick or treaters noticeably absent
Once again, we have had very few ghoulies or ghosties or Sith Lords or Power Rangers or princesses or much of any visitors at all. It’s 8:00pm and we have had one neighbor bring over her son, a 6 or 7-year-old ninja. We moved into this house in 1970 when my sister was ten. There …
“Estimated” bills
You could say. For the third month in a row our water/sewer bill is $157.88. There has not been a penny’s worth of fluctuation from month to month. That’s nonsense. The local water company admits that it estimates bills if it can’t get out to read meters, but this is ludicrous. I’m pretty sure I …
Boids!
From Events These are Java Sparrows. I got a new feeder to replace the old rotting one a couple of weeks ago, and they took an hour or two to get accustomed to it. Now they’re happy because more of them can fit on the rail than could on the old one. The picture was …