I don't know whether I'm an idiot or Nancy Drew. After several months of wondering why there was an odor in the shower that only I c...

When you're the only one who sees/smells/tastes/hears something that others don't, it can lead to all sorts of paranoia. I mentioned...

Now we both are sick. I was on an antibiotic before Christmas, having developed a raging ear infection that required an intervention. By the...

I am not sure when I noticed that the edges of my plates were beginning to look odd, but it has been within the last year. It has only worse...

As I am writing this, there is a man outside with my husband tearing out the old heat pump and preparing to install a new one. This was a su...

It wasn't bad enough that I backed my car into a stump yesterday. Late in the day, I realized the heat pump had stopped working. Of cour...

My mailbox Like many folks here in Virginia, we've had trouble with mail delivery. Some days we don't get it. Sometimes it is here b...

My lesson for today began with a load of laundry. I washed a load of towels, threw them in the dryer, then tossed a load of my whites into m...

After going through 4 different dryer timers on a GE dryer we purchased in 2019, we finally threw up our hands, tossed that thing out the d...

I mentioned the other day that we'd found a leak in the "closet" in the garage. The area really isn't a closet. It was a h...

  I am happy today that my husband found a water leak in the garage before it got worse. It was bad enough as it was. We had turned a half b...

Today I have spent hours learning about electricity. First, a gentleman from a whole-house generator installer came out to give us an estima...

Regular readers may remember that when the power was out over Christmas, we managed to have warm water on Christmas Eve . This happened even...

In April, we bought a new dryer because the one we bought in 2019 was constantly needing a new timer. The thing isn't even two months ol...

Last week, I finished up my last bottle of Cheer Free & Gentle. I've used this detergent since before I married. My mother used it. ...