Visitor!
If you haven’t been to the local international airport in a while you forget how to get into the parking lot. Signage could be better. Ah well. Eventually my aunt and I found each other. I get to cook for a new audience!
Archive of posts filed under the Around the House category.
Bedclothes
Just got some stripy microfiber sheets. I wonder how “microfiber” sheets compare to the “zillion-thread-count” variety. The test will be how they feel after they’re out of the dryer and on the bed. Wish me luck. Update: Good grief, the stripes are horizontal! I didn’t bargain for that! Update: Picture of the sheets on the …
Nap indicated
Going to the grocery store and coming back with 15 bagsful is exhausting enough. Then they gotta be put away too. Where’s the couch? I e-filed my taxes this morning too, though, so I’m ahead of that game.
Plumbing revisited
When I removed that aerator the other day some of the threads on the thing got left behind inside the damned faucet, and they couldn’t be removed even by a plumber. He said “get a new faucet and I’ll install it.” So I did. $59.99 plus tax for a kitchen faucet and spray hose. Worse, …
More plumbing with bonus parcel post
Curses! There’s some kind of metal ring still contained within the faucet. That’s why the new part won’t fit. I’m going to have to lie upside-down in the sink to see if I can pull it out using needle-nose pliers or something. Meanwhile, watch this nifty demo of a parcel’s trip through the mail from …
Plumbing, pfui
Aerators. I hates them. My kitchen sink aerator has been failing, squirting water at a 45-degree angle. This has been going on for about a week. Today I went down to the local hardware store without taking the thing apart first. That was a mistake, but how was I to know there were both male …
Shriek!
The miserable water flow I mentioned yesterday turned out to be a leaking hot water heater tank. We have two 40-gallon tanks and one of them was burbling its contents away on the ground (it’s down under the house, not indoors). Called the solar guys yesterday evening and they said they’d be here in the …
It finally happened
I used to read about people who’d stepped off curbs and broken their feet, twisted their ankles or otherwise injured themselves and thought “there has to be more to it than that.” Not anymore. I heard water running through the pipes in the house over the weekend even when there was no water running anywhere, …
Gray and gloomy Eeyore weather
It’s a good thing we’ve got a dryer. If I had to hang clothes outside today the humidity would keep them wet for another two days. It’s been pouring since 9:00 PM last night. The dog made it through the night in my bedroom with the door closed without incident. That’s a relief.
Christmas Shopping in March
Or that’s what it felt like when I was done, anyway. I thought Abby was done with this, but two of the last three nights she’s left calling cards on the carpet. That’s a pleasant thing to wake up to, believe you me. Then I turned on the computer and the keyboard connection was no …