Category: Our Humble O’Bode
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immobile
I can just barely bend at the waist after spending an afternoon working in the yard yesterday. I certainly can’t touch my knees. That’s how out of shape I am. This happened last year, too, and after groaning and shuffling our way through last spring, My Darling B and I vowed to enroll at a Read.
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changeup
My Darling B has a whole new attitude about mice since she opened her garden shed and discovered they’d pooped and peed on just about everything in there. Before she was on Mother Nature’s side, making me trap them live so we could release them in a nearby city park, but now that she has Read.
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heating cycle
I’m not 100% sure, but I think the furnace has been running all day. It doesn’t run non-stop: It starts with a sound like a jet engine winding up, some kind of a ventilation fan, I think, that’s supposed to keep gas from building up in the flue. The burners kick in after a minute Read.
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frivolity
While pouring gallons of coffee down my neck this morning, I ran through the long list of frivolous things I could do with my day off, but kept coming back to one non-frivolous thing that’s been crying for my attention since the end of summer: clean up the basement. In particular, the corner of the Read.
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kaZAM
For my final trick today, I’ll make this box spring disappear. Abra kadabra … … ala kaZAM! Nothing left but the mattress. Am I good or what? Read.
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honeydew
There are just three things I have to do this morning, according to She Who Must Be Obeyed. Make more coffee Put away the clean dishes and load the dirty dishes in the dishwasher Get the storage tub with the holiday tablecloth up from the basement “It should only take you a couple of minutes,” Read.
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fun with plumbing
Today’s project was: PLUMBING! Because who doesn’t want to work with sewer pipes on a sunny Sunday afternoon? Stupid people, that’s who. The basement sink has always drained slowly. So has the utility sink I installed in the corner of the basement I rather grandly refer to as the brewery. In fact, when the basement 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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sleeper
We bought a sofa sleeper yesterday evening from a salesperson who wouldn’t take “yes” for an answer. We already knew what we wanted because we’d stopped by the same store the day before, talked to a different salesperson, looked at catalogs, sat on a couple of display models, then went home and, after measuring the Read.
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lawnmower hack
I had to destroy our lawn mower to save it. The handle of our lawn mower broke off. I don’t know whether or not you’ve ever tried to use a lawn mower after the handle breaks off. If not, I can tell you it ain’t easy to do. Damn near impossible, would be my best Read.
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