Dang. Those heart flip flops are back.
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Comments (21)They seem to be OK otherwise. So many flowers were knocked off and a few inflos snapped off too but thats how it goes. I will take the risk of this kind of bad weather over no weather. I wish there was a method to the madness to figure out. Some with just rocks were fine and others weren't. Some of the rebar had worked itself out of the ground and some held. Maybe because the ground was very soft and it blew out of the southeast which is very rare without a tropical cyclone. I would estimate the gusts to be 50+mph by the fact nearly whole trees were in motion. It was a pretty impressive microburst. While i was waiting for a light it was rocking my truck and a large branch from a Mesquite tree fell in front of me and a street sign blew over hitting a car a few lengths behind me. I think this was just one of those instances that you can only clean up after and make the best of it. I am going to buy some longer 4 ft sections of rebar now and put a 90 degree bend one end to hook over the lip of the pot. Then drive it with a sledge as far as I can. Come winter time I will just turn the rebar out of the way to move the pot or use leverage to pull it out....See MoreYou know you have a flip-flopped/remuddled house if..
Comments (3)Some one save me from ignorant or is it lazy homeowners! The ones who: Can't clean or properly prep a surface BEFORE they paint. They try covering the grease and the dirt with paint or wallpaper! Can't fix a leaky valve on a toilet so over a LONG period of time the entire floor rots. It's just DUMB luck that the toilet didn't fall from the first floor to the basement....In my dreams it would have been wonderful tho if the PO had been sitting on it! Can't be bothered to prep the walls properly for wallpaper and just throw it up there. Later when their "taste" change they paint over the wall paper making it nearly impossible to do anything but start over. Couldn't leave the built ins alone decided they had to saw them off. Needed to glue the rug down on to what was a hardwood floor. The ones that paint hardware because they didn't like the shine! The ones who didn't mix the paint BEFORE they started putting it on the wall. The ones who nailed stuff when it should have be screwed together AND instead of using a finishing nail used a penny nail! The ones who thought that duct tape could repair EVERYTHING including: the rip in the tile in the kitchen(bright green goes with everything right?) the broken windows ( they might as well used it for a window covering it covered most of the windows in the one room. the door that came off the hinges (how that happened came about I can only guess) as a sub for electrical tape in a few of the wall switches and for the proper fitting for a leaky sink. I'm sure there's more but those are the ones that make me cringe the most....See MoreDang mice!!
Comments (27)Susan_on, would you be able to share the recipe for the homemade concoction you spray with? We have problems with mice at our camp every fall/winter. Currently, I put moth balls in the campers and cabins when we close camp in the fall, but then we are left with the smell of the moth balls to air out in the spring. Would love to hear a good alternative! Jemdandy, the heck with thoroughly cleansing! I hate the filthy little buggers so much, that if I catch one in a trap (which happens a few times a year at the camp), I handle it the same way that I do dog droppings! I put my hand in a plastic bag, pick up the trap, pull the bag down around it, tie it shut, and straight to the garbage! Yep, I know I spend more on mouse traps that way, but I just don't want to rehandle them after they've caught a dirty disease spreading mouse! I know, I'm extreme, but I sure don't like 'em! Never have! I found a dead mouse in the spare bedroom the other day, right out in the middle of the floor. That was sure a puzzle. We live in an old, turn of the century (1900) house with an unfinished basement. We've been here five years. We do get mice in the basement, and other 'livestock' (a chipmonk once or twice) too, but have never seen a sign of one on the main floor or upstairs! All I can figure out is that maybe he came into the house in a box of something??? But even so, how did he end up dead on the floor? We once lived in a house for a number of years without any real mouse problems. Then, one winter they got really bad. Some came into the house, but the worst part was the ones that were in the walls. We could hear them there all the time. They actually chewed a few small holes in the ceiling panels! Poison, and lots of it, was the only way we made a dent on the populations. I wonder if someone burned down a barn in that neighborhood!...See MoreSkip this post if sick of whorehouse flip flopping
Comments (37)I'm way behind on the story, and I guess I didn't realize until now that you had TWO sofas to re-cover! I would definitely do the chairs in the paisley and leave the sofas in solid colors, especially if they are going to sit back-to-back or close together as shown in your photo. Too many competing patterns and colors, unless that is what you're going for. I do still love the elephant print and the olive color with it. Not a bold choice for a solid, but really shows off the thundering herd. I'd use the rust/red as cording somewhere - with the teal blue on the sofa or maybe even on both sofas to tie them together, for throw pillows or for cording on pillows with the paisley, etc. Just a touch of that will go a long way. Here is your photo right-side up....See Moreshotzy52
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