Tag: household
It’s June in Louisiana. Is it wrong to be thinking about this:
It’s $399 at Electric Generators Direct.
At some point we realized that the best compromise solution for our current living space was to put a window above the washer and dryer, which sit on the south wall of our kitchen. Our kitchen is quite large — one can imagine a real estate agent using something like “farm-style” to describe its size — but it is also fairly dark. In its current state, there is a window over the sink and a window cut into the door, but both of those give onto the carport, which means they will always bring in a fairly subdued light.
In other words, our kitchen is a large cave.
So the first thing the new window does is bring the hope of lightening the cave. The second thing it does is give us a view of the backyard from the kitchen, which is important when you have a growing girl in the house who, as summer approaches, wants to spend more and more time outside. And with our improvements to the backyard, we do too. The new window will, we hope, give us more communication between the backyard and the kitchen.
We also hope to put a counter in over the washer and dryer, simultaneously closing them in and removing them from view and giving us additional counter space — not, mind you, because we really, really need more counter space.
But before you get to the dream, you have to do a little destruction. Here is an image from the current work:
I’ll post a slideshow of the project once it’s all done.
In my life I have loved one vehicle I owned, a 1986 Isuzu Trooper that I bought used in 1992, with a lot of help from my mother. Since 1999, I have driven a 1997 Isuzu Hombre pickup truck that we bought used after living in Lafayette for a few months and trying to make do with one car. I had planned on driving that truck until at least half of the boat book was done, but it seems to have had a different idea about its life course and gave up its second clutch. With the cost of repairing it estimated at $850 on a truck whose total value was only about $1600, I got our mechanic to agree to buy it for the difference and we headed out as a family to buy me/husband/daddy a new truck. I have always wanted a Toyota Tacoma, and I was pretty content with the extended cab model with the inline 4 cylinder engine. Yung took one look at the cab and decided it was too small for our growing girl and voted for the double cab.
I think I now have the second vehicle in my life that I will love:
For record, here are the cars I have owned/driven:
- 1973 Ford Gran Torino (hand-me-down — thanks mom and dad!)
- 1982 Toyota Tercel SR5 (bought new and sold to a French exchange student in 1992 for $500)
- 1986 Isuzu Trooper (bought used, sold to some high school kid who promptly tore the bumper off)
- 1996 Volkswagen Golf (given to Yung)
- 1997 Isuzu Hombre XS
And now this truck.
Adafruit Industries, the folks who also brought you the DIY TV-B-Gone remote control to turn off the televisions in public spaces that sometimes are just too much have come up with another DIY kit: a monitor that sends usage statistics to your Twitter account. Check it out. (It’s a terrible URL, btw. Come on, Adafruit. Join this millenium.)