Category: Our Humble O’Bode
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snow blows
And just like that, I shoveled the driveway. Well, I pushed the machine that shovels the driveway. And I didn’t really have to push it all that much. It sort of pulls itself along as it digs its way through the snow. All I have to do is guide it, really, and turn it around… Read.
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a yard sale
And on the eighth day they awoke, and the morning from the dawn unto noon they spent amidst the harvest of their home, threshing the grain from the chaff, and the woman of the house did ask unto the man: “How much for the novelty candles, d’you think?” And the man answereth: “I dunno. A… Read.
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plumbed
I was raking cat turds out of one of the three litter boxes in the basement when My Darling B called down the stairs to me, “Would you come up and look at the shower?” That’s not the kind of question she asks unless she’s hollaring it, but I didn’t notice the slightest hint of… Read.
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frosty
B noticed yesterday that the thermometer in the fridge was indicating sixty degrees and the food wasn’t cold, which is sort of the opposite of what you want in a refrigerator. I’d noticed the night before that the beer I grabbed from the door wasn’t as cold as the one I’d drunk the day before… Read.
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bent pipe
I dropped something down the drain of the bathroom sink yesterday, so I had to take the trap off the drain to get it out and when I did, the pipe broke, spewing grease and hair and greyish chunks of minerals from the hard water all over my hands and arms. I’ve never had a drain… Read.
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fiat lux
We’ve run into a slight hitch here at Our Humble O’Bode: We are temporarily without lights in our dining room and kitchen. At least I hope it’s temporary. I was all geared up to do a little home improvement last weekend: I wanted to install some track lights in the kitchen. The fixture in there… Read.
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Fritz
Our clothes drier went on the fritz. It spun and spun and it blew a lot of air through the part where the clothes tumbled around, but it didn’t get hot any more so the clothes took hours and hours to dry. I asked teh Google why this might be. The thermostat or the heating… 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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centipedicide
I was downstairs the other night boxing up all the beer glasses that I’d put on display on a couple of shelves in the corner of the basement that I rather grandly refer to as the brewery, because the new kitten has the run of the house now and every ounce of him is dedicated… Read.
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Make it RAIN
We hired a house cleaner to come visit Our Humble O’Bode yesterday. This is a first for us. Before this, we cleaned house every two or three weeks, because we hate doing it, and because we wanted the weekends to do whatever we wanted, instead of spending hours on Saturday or Sunday cleaning. So B… Read.
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