Category: Home Construction
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How Many months?
Deconstruction continued…. With the wiring in, the trench had to be repaired, or, shall I say, covered. The fix was to attach new sheet rock over the old plaster ceiling, not an easy job as the powder room is the size of a narrow closet with deep inaccessible space. The…
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Blur
Deconstruction continued…. There’s that Vaseline haze that covers memories when so many of them get lumped into a span of time that it’s hard to distinguish them. What remains are the notable events—those that jut out way above the blur…. In March, the plumber finally showed up, and lay in…
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Big ugly scary bug
Deconstruction continued…. Something like this was hanging around our front porch yesterday. Every year toward summer’s end, a large nasty-looking creature appears in that location. Last year it was a giant bright green grasshopper, clinging to the front storm door, daring me to open it. I didn’t. I stayed inside,…
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That Second Law
…or Deconstruction continued Entropy—you know, the thermodynamic principle that order always proceeds toward disorder? Well, entropy and I became intimately acquainted in the broad sense in the autumn of 2024, as our little addition got snagged by one problem after another. I should say that not all of it was…
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Deconstruction
The following events are true. Names have been changed or omitted, but the details remain unaltered…at least, as far as my overtaxed brain will allow…. In the spring of 2024, my husband and I decided it was time to assess our situation. We loved our near century-old Tudor house, but…
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The Emperor’s New Wing
The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. *** Nothing is as easy as it looks; everything takes longer than you think. And, if anything can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time. Murphy’s Law *** So…
