Jim: Ladies and gentlemen, I’m here today with the Snake Lady Librarian. Snake Lady, can you tell us what’s happened?SLL: Well, Jim, it’s something of a miracle. I’m not really sure how to explain it. Jim: Please try, Snake Lady. This is important. SLL: Well, all right, Jim. It all started when I found myselfContinueContinue reading “Toro Blower/Vacuum/Mulcher”
Category Archives: Home Ownership
Cataloging
In his workshop, hubby keeps the tape and the sandpaper on the same shelf. The SAME shelf. He keeps Mason jars of screws one shelf down. My librarian soul cries with pitying wails.
Overcoming House Fix-It Fear one project at a time…
Me. I caulked that.
Fashionable Window Treatments
Remember that time Hubby and I bought a lawn mower and I gave up after three tries and insist we sell it? Yeah, that time. Well, we just got our check. We have spent the money on MUCH NICER His and Her House Things. For Him, an extension ladder. For Me, new curtains for theContinueContinue reading “Fashionable Window Treatments”
My Long and Profitable History Anthropomorphizing Bathrooms
You may think that my glee over having three bathrooms and purchasing veritable window treatments for them is odd. You may even think it started recently. You would be incorrect. When I was in college, I lived for a year in a student co-op (over time I worked for the co-ops, helped found a co-op,ContinueContinue reading “My Long and Profitable History Anthropomorphizing Bathrooms”
Garage Humor Redux
Recently my family sat around one evening telling stories and Cousin M. contributed this garage-related gem. He was 17 or 18, home alone for the weekend while Ma and Pa were traveling. Being the industrious sort, he told his parents that he didn’t have anything to do that weekend, might they suggest a household projectContinueContinue reading “Garage Humor Redux”
Garage humor
A couple of weeks ago Hubby and I drove to Ann Arbor to visit my mom. She’d called to say she had a small household item that needed fixing during the visit but we wouldn’t need to bring tools. I say “we,” but really I mean Hubby. I inherited my fear of caulking, plumbing andContinueContinue reading “Garage humor”
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