Category: ch-ch-changes
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refinish
Our Little Red House was built in the 1950s. The kitchen cabinets are original. I want to replace the cabinets under the counter, but I want to keep the cabinets above the counter and over the range. I’ll have to refinish them if I keep them but I have no experience whatsoever refinishing woodwork like Read.
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hide-a-bed
Last night, Tim helped me move a sofa from the bedroom I use as my at-home office to the garage. There’s an awful lot going on in that sentence so let me break it down for you: Tim usually comes over every Saturday night for dinner and a game of Spirit Island. Chances are very Read.
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trimmed
The little maple tree out back was not so little so we had to cut it town. It started out as a helicopter that sprouted in what looked like a pretty good spot for a tree, so I put a cage around it to keep the bunnies away and remind me not to mow over Read.
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budgeting skills
It’s another lovely day today but there will be no quiet reading on the lawn under clear, sunny skies because our next-door neighbor’s house is getting a new roof today, which means we’ll have to listen to the whap-whap-whap of nail guns while an air compressor thrums constantly in the background. Yesterday was a lovely Read.
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Venting
Pardon me while I … vent. The guys who put the siding on my house installed the dryer vent on the bottom. It’s basically a flimsy aluminum tube shoved through a hole in the wall with four flimsy plastic flaps to shut out the weather. It’s not screwed or glued or fastened to the wall Read.
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red once again
Our little red house is completely red once again! All that’s left to do is put up the gutters and downspouts, and they’re coming back to do that next week. Read.
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reddening
Our little house is becoming red again! This is the most completed part of the project so far. I wish they had started on the front of the house instead of the back so the part of the house that was done was a little more appealing. It’s vinyl siding and I’m not especially keen Read.
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windowless
We had a somewhat unexpectedly big day here at our little red house: a small crew of men arrived in the early morning hours to knock the picture window out of the front of the house and replace it with a newer picture window. This was only somewhat unexpected because I actually contracted with a Read.
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storm windows
I put the storm windows on last weekend. It’s finally too late in the year to put it off any longer. Luckily, it’s not especially hard to do. Most of the windows of Our Humble O’Bode were updated many moons ago, except for the window in the dining room, the windows around the back door, Read.
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smartphone
As I mention earlier, we replaced our dumb phones with smart phones. We made up a lot of reasons that sounded good for doing this but the real reason we did it is that SMART PHONES ARE AWESOME! The dumb phones we had were the pay-as-you-go type, which were fine for making phone calls. In Read.
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