Bills are good for something. I was tired of messing with a BT FM adapter that worked sometimes and sometimes it didn’t, and even on a good day, I had static, so I broke down and bought a Kenwood stereo. Since I use my Visa for everything (including any bills that can be paid by […]

Thank you, Altec-Lansing, for giving up on Chromecast and going with Alexa, because otherwise, I could never have afforded a whole-home sound system. Since you aimed too high (Sonos-killer? Really?), and Walmart had these for $21 if I knew where to look, I have music everywhere! What I didn’t have in the hallway, though, was […]

I gave up on the old ceiling fan, and bought a new one. It’s a 52″,technically too big for the room, but I want a lot of air moving when I’m sleeping, and this thing can do it! I did the unskilled labour, and P did the mounting and wiring. We got it installed in […]

Not that it’s terribly important, but I did it a couple of weeks ago, and it made me glad I never throw away leftover material. I had bought pipe insulation to make floaters for pots and a corral for floating plants in the pond a year or so ago. I had some left over, but […]

The paint was looking pretty bad on the west side of the house, so I’d decided that was to be my “holiday” weekend project….and a project it was, indeed! Just getting started; the paint didn’t look too bad until you got to the lower two courses of siding. Looks can be deceiving, though; I’d flake […]

So far, they have not made it through the very expensive RFID cat door, but they did pull off the trim again, so I had to put it on with Liquid Nails. Not pretty, but I couldn’t use silicone because the smell would repel the cats, and it’s their door. Anyway, who looks that closely […]

I actually did this two weekends ago, but I’ve been so busy that I just hadn’t got around to posting. I fixed P’s Man Cave Window; the frame had pulled away because a screw was missing. I didn’t find the screw, but I had one that was the right diameter and too long, so I […]

I didn’t get to work on the Turtle Power Pool last night because when I got home from work, Boo was guarding the package containing the fiercely expensive cat door from the UK. I’d just gone out at lunch and got the plywood, which was fortuitous, considering I expected the door to arrive next week. […]

I’m too cheap to turn on the A/C unless it’s absolutely necessary, and even when I do, I imagine dollar bills floating out through 45 square feet of west-facing windows at the back of the house. Enter…heat control window film. I got it last Thursday, and installed it yesterday. The roll was 3′ x 15′, […]

I think I did this on Tuesday (maybe Monday…I forget), but I’m practically a perfeshunl door repair guy. After I figured out that the handles were held on by set screws, I could change the latch guts. Duh. 🙂 Now, I can have the window in that door open to let in some air, but […]