Thought I ought to at least give you a peek at the source of yesterday’s angst. The five colors below are the ones I’ve tried. The lightest ones were first– blah, boring, fall asleep. The one at center top is the one that looks like fry sauce in daylight. (For the uninitiated, fry sauce...
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Funny thing happened when we found out that insurance was paying a couple hundred bucks to have our bathroom repainted. My usual modus operandi is to DIY all house paint jobs in fits and starts over 3 weeks of time, all the while sternly and constantly reminding children to stay out of the paint. ...
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The trail of workers wandering through our house has abated, but only a little. Today I visited with the disaster cleanup boss, the restoration contractor, and the plumber. I also ordered tile and vinyl. You can see our choices in the picture. At the bottom of the picture is the vinyl for the floor....
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In 12 minutes a lady is supposed to be here to help me pick out tile and vinyl for our new (old, flooded) bathroom, so I can’t talk long. Hoping to find some nice new flooring which hopefully we will get to enjoy for a good long time. We are also expecting the bid...
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After our tub overflow on Saturday evening, we wet-vacuumed the bedroom carpet and turned on a heater in the room to dry things out, hoping we’d taken care of things. It wasn’t til Monday evening that we noticed that the furnace was not working. John went down into the crawl space to discover dripping,...
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..when seized with the sudden urge to bleach the bathtub, do not get sidetracked by beginning dinner and helping your daughter play a piano piece and putting in a load of laundry and googling youtube videos of Thirty-Something and watching 10 minutes of such videos. Because in the half hour that all such activities...
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(My husband has the week off, and I am making the most of it by working hard on my latest writing project. Here for you is something I wrote around this time last year.) ———– The woodpile is heaped tall and wide and deep, and covered with a brand new tarp. The stove pipe...
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We went to the appliance store today, John and I, where we dithered over dishwashers for an hour. The Bosch and the Kitchenaid were supposedly the most likely to tolerate the abuse that our family dishes out. We knew we wanted a simple handle without a plastic squeeze-release latch, since that is what broke...
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I haven’t done an Opinion Saturday question for a little while, but I’ve got one for you today. Thinking back to your own childhood, what were your favorite family traditions? They can be everyday things like tickle-fests at bedtime or going out to breakfast on Sunday mornings, or things related to holidays and birthdays–...
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For the past week or so John has been working on a really neat project. Our house is fairly generous– 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3000 square feet. But with ten kids you can imagine it is FULL these days. We currently have 3 girls sharing one room, and the 3 yr old is (ahem)...
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