Brooke here: As this post deals mainly with physics, there are two things you should bear in mind. The first is a previous post when I threw in an offhand comment about the waste water plumbing for the washing machine, and the second is that I have almost no sense of smell. So while […]
Brooke here: While I wait on a plumber to make sense of the washing machine — it turns out we were right and waste water does not want to travel eight feet straight up and through a series of bends — here’s a lengthy article on the death of Randall Jarrell. It mentions the book, […]
Brooke here: The vacation from home repairs is over (so, so sad). Today, while I slashed away at the overgrown 14-foot hedges, Brown replaced the kitchen sink. When we gutted our old place to prepare it for sale, we left the kitchen sink until last and regretted it. Changing a sink is a relatively minor […]
Brooke here: Radio silence is delightful. We moved two weeks ago Saturday and gave ourselves two weeks off. We’ve done nothing since then but unpack. Well, I painted the big hallway but the Scy-Fy channel was running The Stand and I had never seen the beginning so… Anyhow. Yes. Back to work as of this […]
Brooke here: Remember the previous post? The one in which we discuss how to plug a bunch of deadbolt voids? I didn’t think it important to mention at the time, but those deadbolts didn’t actually lock. When we closed on the house, the previous owners threw handfuls of keys at us, none of which worked […]
Brooke here: Except for the bathrooms, which don’t lock at all, every door in the house has a deadbolt. We’ve been here long enough to not notice them, but when you first walk down the hall there’s an unnerving tap on your midbrain because your subconscious would really like to know why you’re in a […]
Brooke here: I talk a lot of trash about the house but it’s really amazing. Yes, I have to get out in the yard and start battling fifty years’ worth of English ivy and wisteria. Yes, the bathrooms are squalid holes. Yes, we have a huge snake in the house and we have no idea […]
Brooke here: Brown: “Hey honey? How big was that snakeskin you and Eli found?” Brooke: “I don’t know. Seven, eight inches. Why?” Brown: “How fast do snakes grow?” Brooke: “It depends on the snake. Why?” Brown: “Have you been up in the attic yet?” Brooke: “Why?”
Brooke here: We’re deep in the post-move ennui, where the work yet to be completed still exists but our bodies make stern fist-shaking threats whenever our minds bring it up. Fortunately, Elizabeth forges on without us. Here, look at the laundry room she built: I don’t know if I have stressed the “Eli is awesome” […]
Brooke here: August was interesting. I didn’t want to mention this online (aka: daring strangers to find where you’re keeping the unattended stuff), but we haven’t been living in the Jarrell house. See, we had this great idea. We’d buy the Jarrell house and do the major repairs while still living at our old house […]
Flying by night 