general New records all over the place

Posted August 12, 2008 • Comments Off on New records all over the place

And not just in swimming at the Olympics.

Let’s say you bought a house recently, and that the records for the least pleasant things you’d had to do to it so far involved cleaning and painting and plumbing.

That record would have been shattered today.

Because today you had to get a dead bunny rabbit out of the backyard.

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In other news, I “fixed” (let’s just say it’s better than it was) the threshold at the top of the basement stairs where the wood floor ends.

And since I was down there with the shovel and my work gloves anyway, I threw away a few shovelfuls of the morass of crap at the bottom of the deck stairs.

I freed all the satellite dish cables from the windows on the back of the house and dropped them all down under the deck for easy removal. The dish is coming down as soon as I can get outside with a wrench I do have at a non-buggy, non-blistering time of day.

I rearranged all the crap on the deck, and it looks nicer now. Helps that I threw out a big wet painting dropcloth that’d been there for weeks.

I hung up my bulletin board in my office.

Small next steps include moving boxes up to the attic (I was all worried when I started running out of space in the basement closets—but I have an attic for that!), replacing two of the doors on one of the basement closets, hanging a shelf thing in the basement bathroom, and installing blinds and curtain rods in various bedrooms.

And, of course, unpacking books and clothes, but that’s neither here nor there.

Also, the new faucet drain is leaking, but at least I know where it’s leaking. It’s a matter of having the right wrench to fix it. I do not (yet) have the right wrench.

P.S. The Grill on Grill Action tattoos came today.