Mr.Revenge
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Reged: 04/28/08
Posts: 352
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[quote]Hey GGirl,
Good for you for caulking your own window. I need to do this also, because as I was scraping paint, I accidently pulled out all the caulking. Whoops!!! Now I have made more work for myself. But I do like the washing down with alchol part. I will have to remember that. [/quote]
boobaby,
What's up with the window caulking/painting?
Are you still handling "man's work" barefoot?
Update on the projects please. CityGirl is working on shotgun pool this weekend, so I know there will be some funny stuff there. You have to have some new belly laughs!!!
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CityGirl
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Reged: 06/11/08
Posts: 623
Loc: Texas
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Well, I haven't got the shotgun pool completely fixed yet, but I will give you an update on Monday. I can tell you about my dissassembling of the washing maching. I had remodeled my house and since I am not a wealthy woman *sigh* I had some friends help me. I tried to do most stuff myself, but after four weeks of complete and total disarry, I was making a major push to get finished up. Moved the washer and dryer from the den (they were just up against the wall) into the storage room (so you wouldn't see them from the den), redo the wall with the rotted beams and mold, etc. Flash forward. Everything is done. Only problem, every time I take clothes out of the washing machine it zaps me. I decide that when we were moving it we must have knocked something loose, so I disassemble the washing machine. Look for loose connections, wires touching where they shouldn't etc. I can't find anything. Spend four hours putting the darn thing back together (reassembly is NOT my specialty). I finally give up and call the washing machine repairman out. I tell him what all I've been going through, I'm a single mom, blah blah blah. He touches it and it zaps him, of course. Within a few minutes he is laughing and says "whoever helped you with your plugs, wired them backwards - well, actually, your wires are coded wrong so they did the color right but since they are coded wrong, they are backwards" - (fortunately he took pity on me and fixed it for me). Word of advice - washing machines are hard to put back together - especially when I disassembled it from the BACK and later my dad told me basically the top of it LIFTS UP when you remove a couple of screws, which I didn't know! Oh the work I could have saved!!!
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boobaby
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Reged: 05/01/07
Posts: 317
Loc: mass
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Oh so sorry Rev, but I have no belly laughs today. I have just started another course(towards my masters) and that is keeping me pretty busy. I do have two more items listed on my summer chores list: stain the deck and relay the brick so we'll see how that goes when (and if) I ever get around to it. I am getting quotes from contractors to put stone on the front of my house. Didn't EVEN want to attempt that one. But I do have a hottie contractor that is doing it for me. HMMMMM-hottie contractor and single woman-that gets me a thinking about other projects he can do (ha!!) So things have been a little quiet around here, no major catastrophes yet! Will keep you updated when the swiffer re-emerges again.
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cher123
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Reged: 06/14/08
Posts: 2
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The posts have all been great fun! The laughing hasn't stopped. Damn, why did I let my STBX keep the swiffer!
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boobaby
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Reged: 05/01/07
Posts: 317
Loc: mass
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Bumping this up for the woman needing to know how to clean gutters!! Hope you have an easier time than I did!!
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CityGirl
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Reged: 06/11/08
Posts: 623
Loc: Texas
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I just re-read all this. I have been in my office cracking up! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!
I think we need new stories!
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boobaby
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Reged: 05/01/07
Posts: 317
Loc: mass
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Yeah, I just reread the whole thing too. Pretty funny. I'll have to post later about replacing the toilet seat and the toilet handle (includes trip to ER).
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Nish
Platinum
Reged: 02/18/07
Posts: 1365
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Come On Boo,
I want to hear the story about the toilet seat and handle. I have actually replaced a few myself, as my former husband didn't do much around the house.
He also was a slob about putting his tools away, so I solved that by going to the hardware store and buying my own basic tools and small toolbox and made it clear if he touched my tools, there would be hell to pay.
So do tell!
Nish
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dexmeister
Platinum
Reged: 06/26/08
Posts: 326
Loc: In a much better place.
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My wife never wanted to touch my tool. Well at least after we got married. Before marriage she was all about it, fixing things, sometimes several times a day. She ate wedding cake and after that she never bothered with my tool
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I never knew what I was made of until now.
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Nish
Platinum
Reged: 02/18/07
Posts: 1365
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Hey Dex Hon,
I think we are talking about different kinds of "tools." Giggle
So if you want to go down that road, since my former husband didn't share his "tool" often, I had a different set up "play tools" that I kept in my bedroom. I quickly learned that the battery operated one could be as unreliable as my former husband and give out before I was done, so my favorite one was electrical. Trust me I didn't let the electrical bill go unpaid.
Hugs and Kisses,
Nish
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