Brooke here: The more I think about it, the more I think something dramatic needs to be done to the Precarious Death Stairs (PDS), and soon. One of the first things Brown did when we moved in was buy a powerful motion-activated LED to light the stairwell (which I removed when taking the picture as […]
Brooke here. Brooke: “Hey, a blog reader commented ‘Regarding the 3″ mystery: Is the stove centered under the ceiling peak?‘” Brown: “Hah. Yeah. It is.” Brooke: “Okay, that explains why the cabinets aren’t aligned.” Brown: “No, it explains where they put the stove. It doesn’t explain why they didn’t measure and install the right cabinets.”
Brooke here: Before the guests showed up for the Sharktopus party, we painted — what? Shut up. Yes, Sharktopus. Careful where you raise that eyebrow, mister. I know you own a copy of The Prince of Tides — the kitchen. These are going to be some subpar photos, and for that I apologize, but the […]
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 […]
Flying by night 