Sorry, it’s been a while since I rapped at ya. Ten internet points for anyone who can name that reference. Let’s talk about the giddy thrill of home plumbing projects! I’m going to spoil the fun right now by saying…
Blog Archives
The “Joy” of Plumbing
Posted in Home Improvement, Products Tagged with: faucets, home improvement, number two, plumbing, product fails
Scheisse Geyser
There are places you don’t ever want to go, and times you don’t want to leave the comfort and relative security of your living room. Yet last night at 9 PM I was down in my crawlspace facing a sump…
Making it Yourself
It’s one of the oldest themes of my blog: handmade. This weekend I went back to those roots, finding simple joy in the handcrafted pleasures of…oh, who am I kidding? UncleF#*k-Up finally bottled the beer after an extra week of…
Posted in Home Improvement, Parenting Tagged with: beer, CH, home brewing, leprechauns, parenting, uncle
The Best Part of the Hardware Store
This weekend, as a joke while running errands, I told the kids that, as an extra-special treat, I would buy them each their own bottle of water. When we got to the store I made true on my promise and…
Posted in Home Improvement, Parenting Tagged with: CH, hardware store, mowers, number two, parenting, treats, water
You Can Lead a Chicken to Water…
…but you can’t make her drink. Oh my Lord, chickens are not smart. These are animals that once survived in the wild, yes? I know domestication is the opiate of the masses but really how hard is it to provide yourself…
What’s Your Post-Apocalyptic Plan?
Alright, I’ve been watching Survivors on BBC, and the Walking Dead, and I saw The Road a few weeks ago, so end-of-world scenarios are in my head. The more I see movie and TV shows try to tackle this big…
Posted in Events, Gardening, Home Improvement Tagged with: cataclysm, communes, gardening, Mad Max, plague, post-apocalyptic, superflu, survivors, The Road, urban homesteading, walking dead
Brilliant Nature
It’s still a wild world we live in, despite organized cubbies and vacuumed floors. Sometimes you just have to look a little closer. Recently we’ve been infested with fruit flies. It feels like the Third World without the mud streets…
