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Had to Go Hillbilly With It, After All

Turns out I spent $60 on a Shop Vac to use one of its accessory attachment pieces to join the washer drain hose to the 27 ft. vacuum hose from the pool with a good bit of electrical tape. Net result? I can do all the laundry I want. Yes, the hose is hanging out the...

Plumber Dude Needs to Put the Crack Pipe Down

Every year, sometime between September and December, I have to call a plumber to come snake my washer drain. I used to resent spending the hundred bucks to clean out my drain line, but I get pretty damned tired of wet socks, and having the washer spin it’s water...

Manual Labor Continues…

Ok, where did we leave off? Oh yeah – Memorial Day weekend…. Well, Sweet Pea was here that weekend, but it did not stop the manual labor efforts in the backyard. While Second Son and I continued work on building gates for the deck, Sweet Pea and PDD went...

Project Canine Containment Continues…

Now that we have the holes in the privacy fence repaired, Cheerio has figured out she can still get out of the yard by going up on the pool deck and hopping over the fence into the neighbor’s backyard from there. The neighbor’s house is a rental house, is...

Backyard Progress Report

Yesterday (Saturday) morning, we got up early and met my BFF Patsy at IHOP for breakfast at 8. After breakfast, we came back here to the house and filled up Patsy’s pickup truck with crap from the backyard and took it to the city dump. Because of all the rain...