Category: money pit
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Here at Chez O’Shea, it’s the time of year when our electrical bill goes through the roof, and our neighbors sigh and shake their heads, and wonder when the hayseed trailer trash moved in. Yes, it’s time for holiday lights, courtesy of I-Have-No-Shame Chuck. He spent two weekends before Thanksgiving doing the preliminary stringing of…
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This just in from the money pit…
We put hardwood floors in the front house. Oh. My. God. What a difference! There was icky doo-doo carpet before. The floors now look fantastic! More pics here. I need to get some before shots, and also the process shots. It took four days to complete the job. Chuck did NOT do this job. Once…
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The office unveiled
Here’s a tour of the newly remodeled office, with most everything back where it belongs.
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The perils of home improvement
We are entering week three of our latest home improvement project: the office remodel. Week one was all about the ripping up and destruction of things, and we were pretty caught up in the activity. Week two involved much sanding, painting, and flooring. Week three has been the week of living with the reality of…
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Attack of the money pit
It’s been a good week or two since we did any work on the house. Well past time to start a new project, wouldn’t you say? The new project involves the office, and there’s a toilet/plumbing sidebar that is unrelated except for the fact that it involves spending money. The office project started with us…
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Backyard 3.0
This past weekend, along with wrestling our new Apple TV unit into submission, we also decided to take on the problem of the backyard pond. Well, it was no longer so much a pond as a breeding ground for the West Nile Virus, and that was the problem. The basin or the plastic sheeting under…
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