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One repair completed

April 16, 2021April 15, 2021 aka gringita

I chose the unit with the buttons on the front, not the top of the door.

My counters have never been so clear. It won’t last.
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Tagged Home Improvement, maintenance
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Broken things

April 7, 2021April 6, 2021 aka gringita

The window crack we discovered in the fall. I started making phone calls about it, but not finding someone to fix or replace it. And then a busy fall, winter began, and travel and travel, and then… pandemic.

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Tagged Home Improvement, house, machinery, maintenance
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Drained

January 25, 2021January 24, 2021 aka gringita

This particular lament could describe me on a fair number of workdays.

It describes many of us after 4 years of government-by-crisis (or is it crisis-by-government?).

But no, in this case I refer to something more concrete and tangible.

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A river runs through it

June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 aka gringita

There’s a swale in my back yard.

(Swale on a normal drizzly day – wet but not filling up)

It runs from the neighbors at right, under the deck by the pond, in front of my shed (where I installed a dry well to further help with drainage), to my neighbors at left. Who Continue reading “A river runs through it” →

Tagged Home Improvement, maintenance
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Pond maintenance

May 1, 2020April 30, 2020 aka gringita

Over the fall and winter, the pond gets netted over to keep leaves out of it. As long as I don’t lose power to that outlet (which was a thing this last winter and I can’t wait to be able to have an electrician in to look at it) the waterfall runs around the clock, all year long. Continue reading “Pond maintenance” →

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