You may have heard that the Buffalo Bills game last Sunday was blacked out a few times thanks to some balloons getting caught in the electrical wires outside the stadium. The entire stadium lost power half an hour before the game, and then once more in the second quarter of the game. Everything was shut…
Tag: Home Ownership
The Crying Wall
Earlier this week, after a big storm blew through, I noticed my wall was peeling! The paint on the 6-inch wall under my office window had bubbled up and was coming off! There was water under the paint somehow, so I tried to dry it off, but noticed it was still coming. I checked for…
A Wet Christmas?
I thought the song said White Christmas…. We did get a lot of the white stuff for the whole month of December. Probably the first three weeks straight. OVer a foot of the good stuff. I think I heard that we’ve gotten around 38 inches so far! BUT… for one week before Christmas we had…
Home Defense
On a recent visit to our town (OK, not that recent…) my Dad recommended the product to the right for our serious ant problem. Ever since we moved to Palmyra, we’ve had a serious ant problem. Every year, without fail. When it warms up, we are inundated with ants. Big, black, nasty ants. So my…
5 Reasons
You might know that I really, really don’t like summer… and that’s mainly due to the hot, sticky weather. Ick. Just really not for me. But this past week of warmness reminded me that there are at least 5 more reasons to not like summer… Ants Mosquitos Flies Alien Bugs Spiders (except that they eat…
Four Years Of Huge Debt
OK, that’s not really what we’re celebrating today. But it was a funnier title. 🙂 Today is the day we moved into our yellow house- our first house – four years ago. Can’t really believe that. Can’t really believe the size of the figure on the “balance owed” ledger on the bills from our mortgage…
Carpet From God, TV and Other Web Fun
Well, most of the clean up is done, and a neat-o story from today is… I called a carpet-laying friend of ours today during a break from cleaning up and asked if he possibly had any scraps of carpet he’d be OK to part with. I told him the situation, and that we had lost…
We’ve Been TP-ed
The clean up continues, and I must say the worst part (besides the obvious offensive smell) has been finding TOILET PAPER all over everything. 🙁 (Well, just the floor, and the toilet bowl.) You know… I don’t really enjoy cleaning up my own kids’ poo… I’m not so much enjoying cleaning up poo from my…
Something Has Come Up…
I walked downstairs to get something, or do something… I can’t really recall those moments right now. Whatever it was that I had in mind got completely obliterated by the overwhelming odor I smelled first near our bathroom and then downstairs, in the room the kids were in. My natural assumption was children, being children,…