Home ownership

My dad did this when I was growing up! We lived on a gravel road about a 10th of a mile from the main road. A crew was paving the main road. They had gone as far as they could for the day and had a loaded truck and wanted to get rid of it so one of the crew came down and asked if we wanted it for free. Gravel driveway was about 120ft long. They came down did the whole deal just like they were laying a road. Dad gave them enough cash for a few cases of beer. He asked me how much a case of beer costs (he hadn't drank for years because of diabetes). Funny thing was I was just coming up on my 17th birthday at the time.

I've used some of that asphalt filler stuff to patch a couple of holes that appeared over the years. (Did I mention it was a cheap asphalt job? Probably poured without building a base of anything over the existing gravel. I barely recall it being done.) This current crack is very thin and, from the one time I looked, appeared to be pretty deep. I'm afraid it's gonna need some dirt work or something underneath it.

I'm probably going to try to find something very thin I can slide into it to see where the bottom is before the next UPS truck finds it for me. I hope I got that impression of depth because of poor lighting, my being tired, and an optical illusion. I'd settle for an hallucination.

Our sewer district in STL had a project to reroute storm water from the sanitary sewer to the storm sewer and half of the back of our house drained to a sanitary drain in our driveway. The driveway was very old and they were going to put in a new drain that routed the water to the street and not the sanitary sewer and would replace the relevant parts of the driveway.

When the contractor showed up to survey the project I slipped the guy a couple hundred bucks and asked if he could do the entire driveway which was at least double the area of the proposed replacement.

For some reason my entire driveway was replaced on the sewer district's dime.

Whoa! TIL that kitchen counters are 36" tall and bathroom counters are 32" tall. I always assumed they were the same height.

Just Measured:
Office counter - 33"
Laundry room - 37" (!!!)
Workbench - 35"

When we remodeled our bathroom in 2020 we raised the counter. To 36", I think. Huge difference. So nice.

I made up a batch of Amplify's Famous Wood Balm. An old-fashioned hard wax oil, suitable for finishing, polishing, maintaining any kind of wood.

It's food safe, so it's great for cutting boards and salad bowls. Can also be used for conditioning leather and metals! At your own risk, Amplify Labs is underfunded.

Heat pure tung oil in a double boiler (like making chocolate). Melt in yellow beeswax pellets and a tiny bit of candelilla wax for hardness.

Remove from heat and decant into adorable little tins. Make a great gift!

But how's it taste?

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like tongue oil

none of your beeswax

Anyone else utilize Delta faucet, Price Pfister and other faucet company liretime warranties? I've gotten so many new free handles, hoses, cartridges, shower heads just by asking for them. I question how this is a valid business strategy.

by the time components experience failure I'm a completely different person

for the life of me still unable to find proof of purchase for a pair of pharoah faucet knobs
probably got gyped somehow

You don't need proof of purchase. Just a rough date and purchase location. Model # and color/finish is also important.

A take my word for it of purchase.

as far as i can dissertain from this partial receipt, this specific model was produced in 1976 and the finish appears to be blonde (unable to compare carpet color with drapes at this time, so still a chance it could be chestnut)

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I remember occasionally seeing this on a bumper sticker when I was a kid: