Married In Ohio

I had to replace a burned out headlight on our SUV on Monday when I got home from work. Amazingly, in order to reach the bulb, you have to take off the wheel and remove the fender liner. For a light bulb! And that’s the “easy way”. The “official” procedure is to remove the front [...]

A pressure gauge that reads 0 PSI is never a good thing; especially when it’s on the filter of your swimming pool. In this summer of (almost) everything mechanical that we own breaking, now it appears that there is a problem with the machinery of our pool. After almost 8 years, something was destined to [...]

The front tire on our riding mower was flat and couldn’t be patched or plugged in it so I ended up having to cut the lawn with the push mower on Saturday. That in itself wouldn’t have been so bad except the grass was thick/high and so I needed to overlap a lot to keep [...]

Remember all of the problems we had with the smoke detector last month when I was cleaning the oven? Now the one upstairs in the master bedroom is acting up. A false alarm is a pain when it’s just the beeper in the smoke detector going off. It’s a gigantic nuisance when it’s wired into [...]

I hate doing the homeowner thing when it comes up unexpectedly in the winter. It was already late when I got home since I was delayed leavening work and then had errands on my way home. Of course, the closet door broke as soon as I opened it to put away my business causal clothes [...]

Long ago, one of my online handles used to be Handyman. Not because I was a prolific DIYer; but from the prehistoric human Homo habilis. These days; however, I’ve become more of a traditional handyman. I seem to be spending a lot of time fixing things that are broken. In addition to keeping three cars [...]

I did a quick WordPress security upgrade earlier this evening. Apparently, there were still some lingering privilege escalation issues. Afterwards, I needed to flush the server cache and didn’t so there were a few hiccups until I realized it. As upgrades go, it was relatively smooth. After the last upgrade, page load speeds seems faster [...]

Sometime on Saturday, the garage door opener stopped working. We could raise and lower it manually; but the operator did not work. Closer inspection revealed several critical parts were completely worn out. Unfortunately, since it was a weekend, I wouldn’t be able to purchase the parts for a couple of days. This is was a [...]

We had a HUGE spring thunderstorm overnight; but, with both kids out of school, we still consider Monday to be the unofficial start of summer. There was no rushing around in the morning hurrying The Girl along. And it didn’t matter that there was an enormous backup on the highway. That is one of the [...]

You know its Monday when you find a leaky water pipe at 3:00 A.M. in the morning and have to turn the water off. Fortunately, I discovered it before it the water got on anything important. Unfortunately, it was in a hard place to reach and took most of the day to fix. I know [...]