Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
First thing this morning I picked up some plumber's epoxy putty at the hardware store to repair the cracked drain pipe I discovered yesterday. This was my first experience with epoxy putty and I found out it is pretty amazing stuff.
Straight out of the package, the epoxy looks like ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
All I wanted was some clean sheets. It's a simple task, right? Wash. Dry. Fold. Done.
Simple.
But in an old house, simple tasks can get complicated. Here's how: I put the sheets into the washer and finished off a bottle of detergent ...
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Sunday, September 4th, 2005
The rooster doesn’t have the same marketing power he once did. That’s my guess, anyway, after finding a very old newpaper ad for Marvels Cigarettes stuck to a shelf in my basement storeroom. The ad features a rooster logo and the groan-inducing tagline, “Quality worth crowing about.”
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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
For my first history entry, I’m starting with one of the most obvious mysteries from the house’s past: the basement storeroom.
Just past the boiler, tucked into a corner of the basement is a storeroom lined with shelves like the one pictured above. Along the edge of the shelves ...
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