Some Things Must Be Endured

2024-04-20 I received an email: Greetings Rev. Gary Steven Jordan, Here’s a milestone worth celebrating: it’s now been 14 years since you...

2024-03-17 (updated 2024-03-19) There will be no more flooding in the basement. The plumbing service has come and gone and taken steps....

January, 2024 This problem has stretched out over the month. We had drainage problems from the deep sink to the sump, so we called in a...

2023-12-25 Gothy Dotter has updated her seasonal decorations. For the full effect, open Woman at Work IV in a separate tab and switch...

2023-12-09 The kitchen area absorbed most of the updates, but not all. There are now six bakers' racks, four of them 36x14x63, one...

2023-11-30 Other than this blog, I no longer write (for publication.) When I did, the majority of my stories were short. "Flash...

2023-11-22 The kitchen area has updates. The curtaining of the Owner's Suite is complete. "PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE...

2023-09-26 I've lived in the Owner's Suite since the year began (plus a day or two) and I have arranged or rearranged things nearly...

2023-09-15 [UPDATED 2023-10-23] I may have mentioned that the Dotter is... a little bit Goth. Maybe even more than a little bit. Has...

2023-09-15 The upstairs refrigerator, whose fan was eventually replaced under warranty, continued to have other problems. This is not...

2023-09-10 The cinderblock wall that leads to the basement outside door and supports the kitchen porch appears to be bowing inward...

2023-08-30 I am not going to repeat the text of Home Moanership III. Click on the link to read it if you are so inclined. Two days ago,...

2023-08-14 Lola died this evening en route to a veterinary emergency room. The family's beloved chihuahuahua... hua... was with us for 13...

2023-08-07 OUR FORD EXPLORER (seldom called "Pounce de Lion") (or a Reasonable Facsimile Thereof) I do not drive Senor de Lion. I believe...

2023-07-20 [updated 2023-07-22] Following the dotter's direction, I have acquired an additional dehumidifier. Following my own...

2023-07-17 OUR FORD EXPLORER (seldom called "Pounce de Lion") (or a Reasonable Facsimile Thereof) To quote a previous (March 9) post,...

2023-07-10 Humidity. That's the problem. Not during winter, of course, but it is now hot and humid outdoors and the central air puts out...

2023-07-08 There are two refrigerators in my house. One downstairs in the Owner's Suite with me, an over & under Frigidaire (top freezer)...

2023-06-06 Some time around the beginning of May, our city-provided trash can went out with the trash. The can was damaged - the hinge...

2023-05-14 I am taking advantage of the dotter's absense this weekend - she's visiting relatives in North Carolina - to take pictures of...