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A good, if expensive solution
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Contech CRO101 Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler Reviews Before I bought my house I thought cats went in a litterbox. Well some do, but my yard is apparently more appealing to Leo, my neighbor’s cat, who is old and incontinent. If you are reading this you know that none of the sprays, repellants, etc do anything at all and should be removed from the market. But dog-gonnit, the Scarecrow works. There are a few minor things you should know, however. First, if you care about the Scarecrow leaking, be sure to assemble the unit with Teflon tape. Second, the Scarecrow is entirely plastic, right down to the spike that you drive into the ground. Not a big deal perhaps, but if your ground is hard you won’t be hammering the Scarecrow into the dirt. Finally, if your yard is good sized you’ll probably need two so crap avoidance has its price. –And don’t forget to run your hose in such a way that you can turn the water off before you approach the Scarecrow, because

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Saturday, feelin’ good…
Today I think...

Feels good to finish a project!  FishyJump2(Photocredit:KingArthur1o) If you are at all like me there are “projects”  that are needing to be done but not so big that they can’t be put off for a while.  And so they keep getting put on the bottom of the infamous to-do list.  One of mine got done this week. \O/ I had new fixtures put in the bathroom and then I thought the light fixture didn’t look right.  My plan was to paint it; so on the list it went.  I think if my friend hadn’t decided she would come and paint it for me it would still be on the list.   Because she was so thoughtful, as she always is, I did a couple of other little things to spiff things up in there.  Still some to do but the major DIY  stuff is done! Thanks and hugs, Janyce!  Today, I think you rock!

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a brand new ending

This is the one I’m really excited about (right now, anyway). I have a new headboard. It’s made of barn wood. I can hardly describe the sense of peace that washes over me when I look at my bed … my heart actually sighs. It all started innocently one day while pinning. I spotted a pin about how to build your own headboard. In the related post, I found a link to this couple’s site. My dream was born. I told my dad and I could see the gears turning … ‘we live in the sticks, there is wood everywhere!’ A short bit later, my dad mentioned to a couple friends at church that I had some crazy idea to build a headboard … from recycled barn wood. They just so happened to have some. We went to look and unfortunately, the wood we wanted was at the bottom of a larger stack of wood. Our laziness prevented us from digging it out but thankfully, Mr. Boverhof had a friend not far away with more. It wasn’t long before my dad had wood stacked at his ho

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“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of pretty good.”
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How to deal with clutter quickly
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The question I asked myself over and over again this morning was: What shall I do with all this clutter?  I was faced with the task of sorting out the spare room in my house, otherwise known as the study or guest bedroom, which has been a mess for a while.  Clutter filled every corner, surface and most of the floor.  Having been on ‘holiday at home’ this week, my plan was to tackle just one room a day so that I could spend the rest of each day relaxing and being with the family.  I started the week with the ‘easier to tidy’ rooms, but today this particular room finally got to me! Putting off tackling the clutter Whenever I take time off I’m faced with this scenario – same clutter, different room.  I knew that this time I wanted to tackle it differently, not shuffle things around putting them in a neater pile or different box AND I wanted to do it quickly.  Yesterday, I sat in the room and had a look around, remembering a conversation that I had with

Tips for Increasing Your Home’s Value
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Use Best Water Leak Detection technique to maintain the plumbing system of your home
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If we will not aware at right time then we can see the problems of the scarcity of water. There are various cities we can see there is so much scarcity of water only for drink. In future the rate of scarcity of water will increase if we will not take care of it. Today water leakages are very common issue in the world. When we notice any small crack in the pipeline then the first task should be to informing any leakage detection specialist or expert. They can solve any type of leakage problem which occurs in the home. If you want to improve your plumbing system then you should use only high quality of pipes like PVC made pipes which are so nice and good in the manner of quality. When we use other pipes then there may be any crack so these defects the quality. By only a small crack or leak there is thousands of gallon water wastage in a year or month. We know the importance of water and also aware the scarcity of water also. In this way you have to use the Best Water Leak Detection Techn

Digging In
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So the Metro was overheating a bit on the way back from Dallas and from Flipside to Austin.  I assumed the 600+ lbs of cargo had something to do with it.  I tried changing the thermostat, back-flushing the radiator, and verifying the engine cooling fan were all working.  Today I did a test drive afterwards with the car still loaded down with most of my gear, and the problem happened again.  In town, I’m able to drive normally, and even use the AC, and only very rarely does the temperature start to creep up.  On the highway, however, after about 15-20 minutes of driving, it starts creeping upward.  Turning on the heater takes it back down about 15%, and revving the engine can bring it almost all the way down.  I tried again after bringing my load down to 300 lbs, which is about as much as two people, and although it took longer, the problem happened again.  What could it be? I checked the fan for the AC condenser, and, sure enough, it gets 13.4 V when the AC is on, but the fan doe

The Cavalry Has Arrived
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It’s been about two months since we finalized the purchase of our project home in Upsala.  Since that time my husband and I have done a lot of small and big projects.  We have been busy building new stairways, removing old stairways and entirely gutting the upstairs down to the studs in preparation for this day. This is the old stairway that we removed from the center of the home. It was ladder-like in its steepness. We are leaving the door on this end to make a new closet area. The back half of the old stairwell will have drawers in the bottom half and on the top of the drawers will be a place to leave your keys and other miscellaneous items as you enter the back door. New stairway located on the North wall of home. The photo below shows our plans for the stairway. The basement stairs are directly below the upper stairs. Both the upstairs and basement can be accessed from the garage. We also opened a wall from the kitchen to this new entry way. Improving the overall flow of the

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Well, we’ve been in the new house for 3 months and we’ve successfully sold the old one. Most of the new home furnishings are in place and we feel like we’ve completed a big chapter. We’ve purposefully refrained from blogging about the experience. There was sort of a feeling throughout the process that we were fighting an uphill battle to make this transition. That feeling caused us to think twice about blogging how we were feeling and thinking about the events that occurred along the way. We really prayed a lot about finding the right buyer for the other house and we were grateful that one came along within 10 days of the house going on the market. We’ve gone through this process 3 times in the first 3 years of our marriage. First selling Lisa’s townhouse after we got married. Then buying our new house and finally selling the house we lived in after getting married. As I reflect on the latest house adventure, there are a couple of things that stand o

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