Having just signed an agreement with one of the major moving companies to relocate from San Francisco to Irvine, CA, I thought it was timely to offer some advice on dealing with the big moving companies. Additionally, I have dealt with these folks on long distance moves two other times in the past. When I ...
The other night, while sitting around the kitchen table, raccoons, squirrels and skunks came up in the conversation. Someone said they’d had a problem with skunks homesteading under their house. They trapped them and hauled them out into the countryside only to have them show up again in a week or so. We’d had a ...
Anyone who has ever owned antique or just plain old wood furniture knows that sometimes you need to give it a deep cleaning. Some people believe the only way to clean old wood furniture is to refinish is, but often all the furniture needs is to be cleaned. You could buy wood soaps that you ...
Have you ever enjoyed the cheerful singing of a bird in a nearby tree? Did you wonder how you could entice birds to come into your yard so that you could have that enjoyment more often? The answer is simple: build them a home and they will come. It’s true. If you build a birdhouse ...
When people go to the handy dandy residential homeowners warehouse store such as Home Depot or Menards, or to the local HWI or Ace hardware store to buy wire for the typical homeowner home improvement projects they are often not dealt with honestly by those retailers. An informed shopper can avoid those pitfalls that do ...
Repairing masonry work need not be something that puts the fear of a Mayan god into you. Get yourself a trowel, a mallet, a chisel and determination and, well, I guess you should get a rag with which to wipe away the sweat. Once you’ve got all those things, repairing masonry is a gas. Let’s ...
Everyone has a talent, something you do well enough to earn money for it. Conversely, everyone has a need for something they aren’t able to get or do for themselves. If you put these two together in an equitable trade, you have bartering. When I lived in the country, I bartered regularly for all sorts ...
Arm & Hammer, a company owned by Church & Dwight, got it’s start in 1834 when Dr. Austin Church decided to produce sodium bicarbonate on a commercial scale, rather than stay at his medical practice. Arm & Hammer has been around for over 155 years, and when I think of their baking soda I picture ...
If you are working with delicate parts when building something, then there can be times that you need a vise that will not damage the parts. Metal vises sometimes just don’t do the job too well because the teeth on them can leave scars in a part that has been placed in them. It is ...
Perhaps it’s different in other parts of the world, I honestly couldn’t say, but I somehow doubt it. Here in Colorado, the first chirping bird is a beautiful sound. On the heels of that sound are breezes pregnant with the promise of warmer weather, the cautious opening of windows, and the first curious buds peeping ...
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