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I’m really starting to believe my house was built on top of Hellmouth. 27 Aug 2013 | 03:06 pm
Sunday night I went to the back courtyard to get a pair of work gloves I had forgotten and left on a table. I live in constant fear of insects climbing into my gloves or shoes left outdoors and I simp...
Wassup. 26 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
About three weeks ago Jack started acting like his back hurt again and then quickly was having trouble standing. I swooped him up and took him to the local vet here and then thought “Umm, no, I’m sure...
Why do bad things keep happening to good people? And by bad things, I mean huge, hideous bugs. And by good people, I mean me. 5 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
This morning I heard a splash like a plane had crash-landed in my pool. I ran outside to see if there were any survivors and saw what appeared to be a large bird, perhaps an eagle, struggling in the w...
Things I Pulled Out of My Pool’s Skimmer Filter: Part 1 28 Jul 2013 | 08:21 pm
My weekend has been bubbling over with adventure and excitement. This morning I cleaned out my new (new to me anyway) pool’s skimmer filter. I may turn this into a series here on the blog. Don’t worry...
Let’s see what magical adventure the weekend brought me… 28 Jul 2013 | 12:06 am
I bought a pressure washer because everything in this place needs pressure washing because no one ever gave a shit and it sat empty and abandoned for several years. This morning I gave it a test run o...
My pets are weird. 23 Jul 2013 | 02:43 pm
My crazy fool dog Jack and I were over at J’s one day last week and I had to go somewhere, I forget where. Since it was 10,000 degrees outside I didn’t want to take Jack with me knowing he’d have to s...
Sundays are for pissing off Food Pic Haters and nursing a third-degree sunburn. 21 Jul 2013 | 07:17 pm
That’s right, in all my excitement to get into the pool yesterday I literally cooked my lily-white-alabaster-Irish skin medium rare. I used 50 SPF, water-proof sunblock and reapplied it every hour on ...
Guess what I’ll be doing this hot and muggy weekend? 20 Jul 2013 | 07:15 pm
The pool will still need to be emptied and resurfaced, but for now it’s swimmable and free of snapping turtles. Here’s the before and after. Pool before "The Great Pool Empty and Clean 2013." Pool a...
Inflation. 18 Jul 2013 | 01:32 pm
It took me three days to blow that motherfucking pool float up that much. I think I passed out four times from either hyperventilating or from the toxic fumes of the plastic. I think I burst a vein in...
At this rate I will have to join the Polar Bear Club in order to enjoy my pool this year. 17 Jul 2013 | 03:39 pm
Yeah, I know I promised pool cleaning photos and yeah, I know you expected them days and days ago. But if you’ve been reading this blog for even a little while, you’ve realized by now that it’s full o...