Author: doug

Parker is helping!

OK, so they’re not traditional ingredients in a lamb vindaloo curry, but I think broccoli and kale do well in this dish.

My sweetie bought me some yummy-looking chocolate today.

Thanks Lis!

We went to see our new house today.  The sellers are offering us some furniture that they don’t need anymore and we went to see.

Today I washed my car.  I don’t mean I took it to a carwash; I mean I got out a bucket and laid sponge to paint.

It’s amazing how much cleaner the car gets this way than in the touchless carwash.

This morning, as I attempted to leave our neighborhood, my progress was impeded by a roadblock…

… made up of 15-20 turkeys in the road.  By the time I got my camera out the way had cleared, leaving only this straggler.

OK, you may ask, why is Doug posting a picture of a toaster oven?

This toaster oven has spent the last 9 months in our basement.  Now that our house is no longer being shown, it — and other items of “clutter” — can be restored to their rightful places of usefulness.

This past Sunday we went through the freezer, throwing out anything over 2 years old.  We made the mistake of putting this old food in the garbage can outside, where last night some raccoons discovered it.  How do I know it was raccoons?

By their dewy footprints, of course.

Parker has found a new favorite place to be.

Inexplicably, it is on top of the cushions on the back of our couch.  Cats.  They’re funny people.

The advantage to our house being built on bedrock is that, if we ever get water in the basement, it is time to call Noah.  The disadvantage is the possibility of radon gas.  When we moved in 12 years ago, the readings were well below a problem level.  But over the years I think we’ve made the house tighter against air infiltration, and we’ve had to install a radon pump in order to sell.

This pipe goes through the basement floor, and is connected to a fan outside that draws air (and the radon it contains) out from under the slab, instead of building up in our basement.