October arrives and we need to pack away the window air conditioners into the cellar - a dreaded biannual task, that gets harder as the years creep up on lumbar disks and arthritic knees. Our downstairs air conditioners weigh a lot, e.g., this LG 12,000 BTU unit... ... weighs 81 lbs. Our new Medea 12,000… Continue reading Carry Large Objects This Way
As mentioned, my wife Tricia had fallen down the second-floor-to-first-floor-stairs. We needed to add another handrail to these stairs. It needed to go on the wall side and above the chair rail here: Watercolor Sketch of Stairway from second floor My previous work with the cellar handrail made it clear that this stairway needed a… Continue reading Handrails, continued
We found a way to make delicious dark chocolate sauce for ice cream that only takes a few minutes. We love it. It all starts with Trader Joe's Pound Plus 72% Dark Chocolate: https://thedalys.smugmug.com/2021/Best-and-Fastest-Chocolate-Sauce/i-NjZfSpm/A For two servings we just click off 4 squares https://thedalys.smugmug.com/2021/Best-and-Fastest-Chocolate-Sauce/i-pvTDPkf/A Put them in a small bowl with some milk, about 3… Continue reading Chocolate Sauce in a Flash
At one point in our long years of living here, a red squirrel got into the walls of our house through a narrow protected opening under the eaves right here: https://thedalys.smugmug.com/2021/SquirrelDefense/i-mBhmpLZ/A Under the front eave above the front porch When we repaired and closed up the squirrel hole -- after making sure the squirrel was… Continue reading Squirrel Defense
Tricia had fallen down the second floor stairs, hit the wall at the landing and tragically broken her neck. Luckily no spinal column compromise, no paralysis but a long and slow recovery is underway. She has moved from the walker, out of the neck brace and now, we hope, to more normal living, but she… Continue reading Stairs NEED Handrails!
Three weeks ago my poor wife pitched down these stairs after trying to reach one of her loose slipper loafers: https://thedalys.smugmug.com/2021/ShowerHandles/i-vjHZCkw/A Site of the fall The headfirst fall into the wall on the right broke her second cervical vertebra but luckily the break did not compromise her spinal column - no surgery, no paralysis, just… Continue reading Shower Handles, a Must
What's Behind the Mills58 Site Recently I went to drop off my Laser Printer to Advanced Laser Printer Service which happened to operate from 58 Pulaski St Peabody MA. I was surprised on arrival to find it in a spacious and well built brick factory building from 1890 backing up to the Waters River... Source… Continue reading Why Is This Here? The Story Behind the Location
We are lucky enough to own a junior size version of the original "Garden Way Cart" from the 1970's. The manufacturer, Garden Way Research, originated in Charlotte VT. Garden Way Research, originated the design in Charlotte VT. Here is the insignia embossed in the cart's underside. Embossed: "Garden Way Carts P.O. Box 20B Charlotte Vermont… Continue reading Original “Garden Way Cart”
In May of 2018 a door to door solar energy salesman talked with me as I was working on the front lawn. He talked about federal, state and local incentives for solar panels and explained I had a wonderful location for solar collection. I did not commit but the conversation advanced something we had always… Continue reading Solar Generator
Daniel Levitin wrote The Organized Mind which provides wonderful tips for improving one's life. He noted that the most productive and engaged people he meets, and these are musicians, CEO's etc. all, suprisingly use physical index cards to manage their "to do's" and priorities. Why not me? I set up my card deck and went… Continue reading Rarity – Printer Does Not Work
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