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1/21/2009 Waiting for the ElectriciansGuh.. The worst part of having electricians coming into the house is having to move all of the furniture in the house away from the outlets.
There is only so much room, and way to much furniture not to have it near a plug or under a ceiling light.
Oh yeah, Happy 2008 and 2009.. I guess I've missed a year. 4/13/2007 Toilet RepairI'm Finally Updating my Blog! I woke up this morning to a running toilet. I found the flapper in the tank had rotted off. So I went to the Home Depot to get parts. I started to dismantle the broken part out of the toilet tank.
The Rubber Part is completely broken away from this part And here is the rubber flapper. It really made my hands black. I pulled out the new part. The new one is much cleaner.. for now. The fully assembled tank works like a charm.. then I found the instructions.. I did it right. 4/25/2006 Watchin' the Grass Grow...Look how the cops drive through the park...
When I drive through the park I get yelled at
la cops off road over the hills . Out of frame is an under cover car with another 5 guys being questioned.
The cops hassle the dealers... These guys are respectable citizens.. according to their mothers. The cops are probably confiscating grass.
I'm told cow Manure burns grass... but it's spread out now.. poo. fun to say, fun to do.
Look at my sprouts of grass... As it gets taller I will add more dirt and seed.
The grass is too tall in areas.
I've blocked off the areas scooby runs to protect my precious grass buds.
I spread my seed like a man hoe. I even bought a new spreader. Please do not case all the crap in the garage.
Here is all the yard waste from last week... bags 6 through 12. It took Melissa 6 hours to cut down the sticks and bag them as Jack and I went driving.
You suckers just read about grass... Of course I go out and look at it's growing progress. I won't tell you how many hundreds of dollars it costs to create this grass master piece. But if it doesn't work I'm going to plant Moss next year. Green and fuzzy.. grows on rocks.. perfect. 11/17/2005 Never Ending ConstructionFor the THIRD time since July they've torn up the crosswalk next to my driveway.
They started when the kids are trying to get to school.
It adds to the morning excitement
watching kids dodge backhoes and cars...
Update: Nov 18 The reason they tore up the asphphalt is because they laid down concrete instead....
I'm sure it was well worth the money.
I also know of no bylaws prohibiting the use of power tools after 9am 10/15/2005 Racoon in the HoleWell I headed up onto the roof yesterday to check out where the sparrows were getting in.
The mesh around the chimney was all rusted off at the top again.. so I'll have to get a new top for the fireplace chimney.
But then I turned around and there was a huge hole in the main roof.. all the shingles have been curled from the racoons trying to et into the roof. It's nice in warm in all the itchy insulation.. which they were pullling out.
So I broke out some duct tape and got a garbage bag. Duct tape doesn't stick to shingles. So I had to tape the bag down to the eaves trough. I'm a great carpenter...lol
But hey it lasted all night and then the roof repair guys came around 5:30p this evening.
They couldn't re shingle because the hole was to big, but they layed neoprene and put lots of tar on the area. And the other areas on the roof where the Racoons were trying to break in.
I want to get a steel roof.. then I'll stand in the window and watch piles of grey fur just slide off the house and plummit past me. 10/4/2005 bell phone updateSurprise, surprise, the line man from bell came and ran a new line.. and then left.
Then a technician came and hooked up both phone lines.. all before 6 pm... good job for once bell... er, wait you fEckers messed it up to begin with.
No offence Jay.. must be just the toronto bell feckers...lol Where'd my taxes go?If you look back in my blog entries you'll see how my street was shut down for construction... and the idiots cut my phone line multiple times!?!?!?
Well two weeks after completing everything they decided they'd rather make the cross walk next to my driveway wheel chair accessable.
So they tore up all the nice fresh ashphalt and cement curb.
As they did that some Bell reps decided they'd bury the phone line the construction guys kept cutting a couple months back.
Here is the Bell technicians back hoe...
The crossing guards (behind the tree) are so confused.. where in the street will the children cross now???
Parents dropping their kids off at school.. most of these parents should invest in driving lessons, and ESL lessons. They must not know how to read because they always park infront of my drive way or in the no parking zones. I'd make a bundle If I owned a tow truck... learn to spell I-m-p-o-u-n-d yard. Maybe their kids wouldn't weigh more then me if they walked to school..
My drive way is the new cross walk....
Three guys work, while one guy watches.. my municiple taxes are hard at work.. I want a Refund. So these guys poured a new curb that will let wheel chairs get up onto the side walk. They also put two cement posts in the ground about 3 feet high. This will hinder the schools snow plow, and the cops.. they're the only people that drive up my drive into the school yard.
Then bell finished burying the phone lines but they only connected one of the two lines.. So I'm without a home phone for 24 hours.. ARRRRRGH!! dumb fackers!!!!
It is now 1 pm.. Bell has come and gone and I'm still without phone. Is it bad when the Bell technician says "I don't know what the hell they've done. You'll have to get out the line crew"...??? The dogs all freaked out now and I havn't slept in 22 hours. I have to wake up in 3 hours for Seans dinner. Why am I blogging???...lol 8/30/2005 Construction Drives me OffDue to the City of Toronto deciding to repave our street on my days off I'm going to go to the trailer for the week. THe Driveway here is not useable... since they're "fixing" the road, and I have to walk a block to get to my truck.
I need to bring the golf cart down here to go back and forth. 8/26/2005 Tearing up the StreetWel if you read the Previous Blog entries you'll know that the city of Toronto is graciously ripping up our street (and phone lines) to put down a new road and curbs. Just what we need.
Anyways, they finally decided to rip up the ashphalt. I like it like this all sandy and loose gravely.. it's fun to drive in and i like kickin' up the dust. The problem is that most idiots drive so slow in the sandy gravel that it's quicker to walk past them.
I just drive past them.
I just gotta watch those raised man hole covers.. 8/12/2005 Toronto and Bell suckThe city of Toronto has cut the phone line for the second time in 3 weeks. Bell fixed the one line, but the guys left and never fixed the second line...
So the internet is down.. luckily mom still has dial up...lol
If it wasn't for Bell andthe City Workers I'd have no blog.. 8/2/2005 This crap stinksLast night Scooby got sprayed by a skunk. He didn't shred this one, thankfully. But thats the second skunk thats sprayed him in a year.
Of course the first skunk was in bits all over the yard. Maybe that helped spred the smell about.
Between the smell of skunk and the road crew out front I need some tylenol.
The road crew is now digging up every driveway on the street. So all the cars on the block are in the road.
The guy said "aye, tomorrow we pour, eh maybe the next day Aa. Unless it rains, I'm notta sure" The best bit was seeing the little dance this little fat man did with his arms as he spoke. He really twisted about, and gestured.
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