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A shiny new water intake valve

For at least the past year, the water intake to the upstairs toilet has been corroded. I noticed because the flapper on the back of the toilet was leaking just slowly/quietly enough to be annoying and I couldn’t turn off the water to the toilet to replace it. In addition to the apparent paranoia about […]

Juddmansee Glacier

So our furnace is broken again. This time it’s not leaking CO, but instead the furnace shuts down after running for approximately 5 minutes. Our living room was a cool 42 degrees on Monday morning. Today was warmer at 48 for a low. Looks like our tax refund will be going towards a new, working, […]

what a nice weekend

We went show-shoeing at Bradley Palmer State Park, a good chance to practice using our new gear before we go to NH next weekend. I enjoyed seeing people at church and singing at Sunday afternoon choir practice for our Easter cantata on April 1. I caught up with Ab and Dave on Sunday night for […]

Who can you trust?!

Yesterday we got about 8 inches of really fine, wet snow which was very heavy to shovel. Despite not feeling very well yesterday I dutifully shoveled a one shovel wide path on the sidewalk in front of our house. Then I got up this morning to shovel out the cars so Su could get to […]

Bad things always come in threes

1) Hidden smoke detector with dead battery Badness scale – Annoyance Resolution: Wake up in the morning and track down the actual smoke detector location 2) Car battery died Badness scale – Inconvenience Resolution: Su picked up a battery at Sears and ran my errands for me so I could do W2s for church. On […]

Cold Weather = Dead Batteries

Today’s theme was dead batteries. Sometime around midnight, one of the smoke detectors in our house started beeping. This was odd since Brian is very good about checking and replacing the batteries when we set the clocks (twice a year). We thought it must be because the front entryway was so cold due to temps […]

Back at the ranch

I just read over Su’s description of our trip to the midwest (below) and it looks like she hit all the high points. It was a relaxing and fun time bookended between two drives that seem to get longer every year. Now that I’m back in Newburyport it’s time to get back to normal life. […]