Y’all are too young to remember Joe Btfsplk, from Li’l Abner the comic strip. I’ve insisted from time to time that the little black cloud, filled with thunder and lightning, that perched perpetually over his head has passed on to me. I have more proof.
Astute readers will recall that I have become too short […]
Finally, finally, all the construction people are GONE and they shouldn’t be coming back, unless I invite them. The three-day Baseboard Project wound up at, of course, six days, although the price didn’t go up. Baseboard Dude was a very nice man and did beautiful work, but three weeks of having somebody bomb in every […]
I’ve said for years that North Dakota is the biggest small town in the world. So I wasn’t surprised last week when I met a young man from Minot; he’s an administrator for the international student program at the community college. We chatted about this, that and the other, and within a very few minutes […]
Finally, yon floor has gone from being The Neverending Floor Project to being The Anticipated Baseboard Project, which will take yet another three days (sigh) and cost (are you sitting down? Do you know the answer yet? Can you guess? If you do, you get a prize!) … *trumpet fanfare, red carpet rolling out*
ONE THOUSAND […]
Wheeeeeee! I admit to getting a little impatient and wasn’t expecting to actually see floor on the floor today, since things are not going as quickly as Floor Dude thought they would, but he left some of it lying on the floor when he left. I think I like it! It has a cork layer […]
Blue and I have survived the first day of the Floor Adventure. The Mover Dudes came in early early this a.m. and she did not like them. Not one bit. Usually, she warms up quickly to people, but one of these guys was scared of her and she wanted to disembowel him. I was a […]