I had a hard time coming up with anything inspirational in yesterday’s paper, until I decided to put my dubious organizational skills to use. A headline which reads, “Have you planned for illness?”, mashed together in my little brain with a picture I took the other day, gave me the following idea:
What do you do when part of a tree collides with your house?
Are you a natural born handyman/handywoman?
…handyspider?
Owning a home is great, but the number of things that can go wrong is spectacular. If you’re like me (single and totally inept when it comes to anything more complicated than taking out the garbage) then you have to pay someone to fix anything that goes wrong. And when the boiler starts to leak all over your basement floor? (Hint: the water is supposed to stay inside the system.) You spend the next six years paying for a new one, like I am.
Easy to squash or not, there’s something to be said for being a squatter, like my little eight-legged architect/do-it-yourselfer.
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November 15, 2013 at 2:43 am
Do you have a pig that can spell, Some Spider?
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November 15, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Unless he can spell “Godiva Truffles” I’m not interested. 😛 She was a very nice spider. She’s disappeared since… I think she took the web with her. 😛
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November 15, 2013 at 3:18 pm
When my kids were in there teens we lived in an apartment with an underground garage. One day as we entered I noticed a black widow spider off to the side of the entrance of that garage. We stood around the spider amazed that she chose such a spot to web at, with all the people traffic. She seemed happy to chat with us. For some reason I named her Evangeline. Every time we went down to the garage we would speak to her. She was fascinating and beautiful. Then on day we saw a big black splosh that we assumed was the remains of Eva. At least your spider go wise and moved her web out of the danger of falling tree debris,.
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November 15, 2013 at 4:58 pm
I can’t be sure it was her, but I think I found her on the handle of the wagon I use to deliver my papers in. She’d built a nest and was lazing nearby, dopey with the cold. Unfortunately I couldn’t leave her there so she got shushed away into the hedge. I haven’t destroyed the nest yet, but I think I might, since I don’t really want hundreds of her kind in my hedge … I get tired of walking face first into webs every morning in the summer. 😛
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October 25, 2013 at 11:09 am
Spiders are great, aren’t they? They’re nature’s little cleaners. If we didn’t have spiders, and bats for that matter, we’d drown in bugs! And owning a house certainly has its challenge. There’s always something to repair or take care of. But homeownership is great. I wouldn’t trade it in for the world!
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October 24, 2013 at 10:17 pm
haha, yeah sometimes I think about the money I could be saving by learning just a LITTLE bit about cars and not taking my car to the mechanic, and I feel like throwing up 😦
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October 24, 2013 at 10:40 pm
I love warranties…
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October 24, 2013 at 10:07 pm
I have a friend that jokes I should start a rent-a-husband business… all the benefits of having a handyman husband without the sex or the headaches… lol…
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October 24, 2013 at 10:12 pm
What a great idea! And don’t forget, the headaches don’t show up until the sex becomes routine, so you might even get lucky at the beginning! Haha!
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October 24, 2013 at 10:13 pm
ha ha… it’s been so long I forget who ties up who…
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October 24, 2013 at 10:38 pm
OOooh… Mr. Therien! Speaking of gutters (where my mind is right now) are you good with heights? 😉
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October 24, 2013 at 9:53 pm
ah well, I am like you, but luckily, or unluckily, I’m still a lowly renter 😦
In terms of fixing appliances and such, I usually end up making things much worse. Sometimes I just get the thought in my head that I will fix something, and that thing just commits mechanical suicide rather than take its chances with me.
so I feel your pain…
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October 24, 2013 at 9:57 pm
Haha! “mechanical suicide”, yeah, they see me coming and they do the same thing. Unfortunately, for me it’s not toasters and coffeemakers as much as it is furnaces and cars. 😛
My ineptitude has expensive tastes.
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October 24, 2013 at 7:17 pm
That sucks. But google can always help to help yourself. There are an astonishing amount of DIY-Blogs out there 😉
Don’t limit your own abilities by believing you can’t fix your own stuff. I did that. Everybody has to learn and while learning stuff breaks, good thing your stuff is already broken 😉
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October 24, 2013 at 7:59 pm
Well yeah, that’s one way to think about it. 😀
Next time something breaks I’ll take your advice and try to look it up. I’ll let you know how it goes. 🙂
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October 24, 2013 at 8:01 pm
I would really like to see that. Preferably not with something that could set your whole living space under water 🙂
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October 24, 2013 at 8:01 pm
Haha! I’ll try to keep the fires down to a minimum too. 😉
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October 24, 2013 at 8:03 pm
Might be a good choice too 😀
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October 24, 2013 at 8:03 pm
🙂
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