Question of the day: Dead mouse in the toilet – flush or retrieve? (It was floating on the top.)
Scotty’s answer - “Flush and I’ll plunge it out if I have to.” – had too much more potential ickiness than the original problem to contemplate.
Google’s answers focused on septic systems, which we don’t have. “Flushing […]
Andrew Sullivan posts views from readers’ windows. Here was the view from my window yesterday.
It looked, as Caitlin pointed out, as if we were preparing for trench warfare.
Well, peace was restored and our flat front lawn is back and it now covers our nice new 1″ copper pipe that doesn’t leak.
And for only […]
Make no mistake, I had a great time at the Nationals game on Sunday. But that was due to who I came with - all of us, plus Granddad, Uncle Bobby, and Calvin.
My grade for the Nationals product was a D+, okay, I’ll be generous because it is a beautiful ballpark and bump it […]
I’m a week behind in writing about my Mother’s Day breakfast in bed. I hadn’t had one of these in years, and the years improved it greatly.
I had a flower, pancakes, fruit, and a little cup of water to dump into my tea to cool it down. My Caitlin knows me well. But the […]
Our water issues started Tuesday morning with yells from the shower and Caitlin emerging to complain that there was no hot water. By Thursday we had a new hot water heater, but not before a corner of our basement rug was soaked.
But that was our easy water problem. Also on Tuesday we started noticing […]
Today is almost perfect for soccer - all players available, temperature in the low 80s, perfect blue skies, lush green fields. Well, actually the fields are lush with standing water so we can’t play. After a week inside because of all the rain I’m sure everyone is really ready to play, especially because the weather […]