According to the New Orleans Flood Map our property is now dry, after soaking in 6.6′ of water for sixteen days.
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According to the New Orleans Flood Map our property is now dry, after soaking in 6.6′ of water for sixteen days.
This day is getting off to a rough start. See, yesterday I hired a guy named Quickdraw to fix up our gutter. This morning, we…
I had some electrical work done on our house today. I hired a friend, Mike Kaplan, to do the work. He in turn employs two…
A few weeks ago our electrician friend, Mike Kaplan, spent an evening examining some of the fucked-up old wiring in our house. He’s going to…
The only heat in our bathroom comes from this old electric heater: When it gets cold, this thing just turns on all by itself. Something…
Tonight I helped Donika, one of the girls who lives across the street, with her math homework. Normally Xy does this, but the subject was…
There’s a UFO in my kitchen.
We took Jaylene out to Lafitte National Park Saturday afternoon. When we got back, we discovered a window in the back door was broken, and…
In the morning, it’s usually cooler inside our house than it is outdoors. That’s a good thing during the summer. But today, the outside temperature…
My big project for today was installing a new ceiling fan in our bedroom. First I had to buy one. Instead of going out to…
One of our exterior doors fell apart earlier this year. It had been deteriorating for a while, and finally I dismantled it. Fortunately it doesn’t…
This morning we had our house sprayed by the exterminator. Within mere minutes, cockroaches were crawling out of the woodwork in their death throes. We…
Had tea with the fabulous Heather Weathers at Bayou Coffee. Painted the alcove off our hallway a bright blue. There’s actually a long story here,…
I was unable to replace the faulty hose connecting the toilet tank to the water supply. Seems my shutoff valve has a flange coupling, odd…
XY and I have wondered for a while about these plants growing in our courtyard. A neighbor lady brought another one over in a small…
My boss came by after work today, and we tackled the toilet again. This time we junked the old floor flange. Turns out it was…
We bought a Kenmore Tumble Action Washer (which the Sears website calls a Kenmore White-on-white 3.1 cu. ft. Front Load Electric Washer w/Eco Care™ System!)…
Donika, Crystal & Shontanay do a little computer work for Xy.
Nothing beats getting up early after four hours of sleep, still drunk from the night before, to fix a troublesome toilet. Except failing to fix…
In an old house like ours, there’s always some work to be done. But in the last couple of weeks, the number of projects demanding…