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Originally Posted by Judy G. Russell
And would you please let me borrow Bill? I really need some grout work done....
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Did I say he
liked it?
Actually, he's shown a remarkable talent for cussing. The house was built in '77 by someone we've come to call Mr. Handyman. There are several, er, features in this house that need to be repaired. And, naturally, nothing turns out to be a simple fix.
For example, nearly every room has a ceiling fan; that's a good thing, here in the Southwest. However, all of them were put up with... let's call it "an imaginative sense of problem-solving." Instead of doing it the right way -- poking a hole in the ceiling and fishing wire -- Mr. Handyman nailed the fans to the ceiling. Then he used several lengths of 8' lamp cord ("zip cord," Bill calls it) and affixed them to the ceiling, then down the wall to the light switch. Not that the light switch actually turns on the fan, that is (except in one room); that's just where he got the electricity.
And then there's the way he installed the landscape lighting using Romex...
Ah well. We
are having fun! (There's a few photos of the place, from before we moved in, at bitranch.com. As well as pictures of the kitties.)