One morning the house was still too warm from the day before even though the air conditioner had been running all night. This A/C unit has run flawlessly for several years, so I figured it just needed more Freon, or whatever gas they use now. Miss Sherry called the air conditioning guy and made an…

I was walking around the house when the black walnut tree stump struck me as needing to go. It is hollow clear down to the ground and essentially useless now; Miss Sherry tried planting something inside the stump, but it died. It would be nice to have it removed and the carport repaved, which also…

I found a few ants and unkles stomping around my bathroom floor, which I removed, but more kept coming back. I put an ant bomb under the house to end the problem, but it did not. I still had a few ants in my bathroom, but in addition we got a couple dozen roaches who…

I remembered to tape the pipe heater onto our back deck faucet before the first significant freeze this winter and even checked it one cold morning to see if it was warm, and yep, still working. If it is going to be below 20F overnight, then I drip the inside faucets and flush the toilets…

It was time to wash and paint the front porch again. For some reason, the porch gets mildew and just plain dirty over time, maybe because it has no rain to rinse it occasionally. This is a several days project because it is tedious and I am slow. Miss Sherry and I took down all…

Miss Sherry and I completed the list of Our Olde House’s updates, so now we are in the ‘hurry up and wait for the contractor to have time to do our work’ stage. Our priority project is to add some supports for the back deck and install new plastic decking; we are on the schedule…

It was too hot to do anything outside in August, so Miss Sherry and I decided to plan a few updates to Our Olde House, which we could do from our couch. We have plenty of projects that need to be completed, most of which remain ‘in progress’ due to lack of interest or avoiding…

I decided to cut down some of the larger wild trees in the backyard because they were starting to encroach on the grass. These were too big to feed into the chipper, so I piled them up on the curb and Miss Sherry called the City to have the claw come and pick up the…

My foot seemed in good enough shape to do some things in the yard, so I found the handheld chainsaw that Miss Sherry got me for Christmas. I needed to remove the ‘stuff’ growing next to our driveway, which has gotten out of hand. I have not used my chipper in a long time, and…

I have wanted to replace the floor in my bathroom ever since I had a new tile shower put in and I changed the wallpaper to match the shower tile. The existing floor was fine, but no longer a complementary color or pattern. Miss Sherry went with me to the hardware store and we found…

It works! I made a blow-the-leaves-out-of-the-gutter Snoot for my leaf blower out of some downspout parts that I put together. I made two GutterSnoots actually, one with a short extension that fits into the lower front gutter, and the other one, reversible to blow left or right, with a tapered extension that fits into all…

The list is long and illustrious of postponed tasks from the ladder incident, but we decided it was time for me to get back on the small step ladder and put away some stuff. I started with the small herd of plastic Santas that needed to go back into a closet before December comes around…

The front and back gutters are still clogged with leaves since I am on ladder probation. I did manage to ride the big mower around the back lawn to chop up the few leaves that had fallen on it; the mower uses all hand controls so my right foot was not doing anything. And, we…

Since my foot still has a broken bone in it. this past month has been one of deep contemplation and wonder of the theological importance of the Weather Channel and counting the number of tiles on the living room ceiling; I have a lot of time on my hands. I have come to no conclusions,…

My drone came back from the repair shop in perfect working order; this is probably due to the fact that they sent me a new drone as a replacement for the one we broke. A pretty good deal actually, it cost about as much as round trip shipping so all in all a victory. I…

Miss Sherry received a State Historical Marker (the most recent of ten markers in Olde Towne) for The Landrum House which has been in the Landrum family for 100 years. The house was purchased from Clinton Alderman Dr. Lipsey in 1924 by Monroe Landrum who was the grandfather of her late husband Jeff Landrum, which…

  We got our inflatable dragons out before Halloween and put them on the front lawn. Miss Sherry also put up some black and orange lights around the dragons and on the porch railing. Unfortunately, it was stormy Halloween morning and too windy for either dragon to stay inflated. Since it was supposed to rain…