Sunday, May 07, 2006
Damn, where'd all these dust bunnies come from?!?
It's been a while since the last time I did much around here. I'm surprised there aren't any cobwebs hanging around. Time for the spring cleaning I guess. That's where a lot of my free time has been spent, trying to finish some of the projects that I have going on. Putting up the ceiling in the garage, cleaning up the yard, consolidating my firewood collection, getting J.R.'s truck cleaned up so we can sell it, counter-acting puppy damage in the backyard, making plans for remodeling parts of the house, and having the sewer lines augered out. A vain attempt to organize all the stuff the I have accumulated over the winter.Today, I got to experience the cleaning of the lines the run to the sewer in our house. Yeah, it was fucking nasty, and yes, I called Roto-Rooter and had them do it. I figured it would be best to let a professional handle it this time. They have the proper tools to do the job, that and you never know what you're gonna find in those drains. It seems that we had a large blockage of this black greasy substance in the line off of the kitchen and laundry room. About twenty feet worth topped off with about five pounds of spaghetti from the garbage disposal. The spaghetti was still in four to six inch long chunks, add that to soap scum, lint from laundry and whatever the hell else was in there, and whammo, total stoppage of water flow to the sewer line. If you have never smelled the stench from decaying material in your drains, consider yourself lucky. Two and a half hours and $178 later we once again have free flowing drains. Moral of this story? Don't put spaghetti down the garbage disposal, the garbage bill is cheaper than Roto- Rooter.
On a better note, I finally got most of the ceiling in the garage done. I put up OSB on the roof rafters and put up some two foot high walls above the ceiling. Kind of like a little attic. It's a good place for me to store all of my light weight auto parts, air filters, hoses, gasket sets, and oil filters. No heavy stuff though, whoever lived here before put three or four hundred pounds of lumber on top of the rafters right in the center of the garage. Not a good idea. On the under side of the rafters I put up some ceiling tiles. Just little one square foot tiles that I got from a guy I work with. It looks a lot better now. Cleaner, brighter, and as J.R. puts it, less places for spiders to hide. All I have left to do is put up some covers over the fluorescent lights, and that will pretty much finish of the ceiling.
We have been trying to grow grass where the pool used to be, but it's not going so well. I think UFO's have been coming down and digging holes in my yard. It has to be aliens, because I know these two wouldn't do such a thing. Yeah right. I have to keep back filling the holes with their own poop so they will stop digging. It works really well, until they move to another spot. Something tells me I'm going to end up with a yard that just has a sub layer of poop six inches below the top soil. My neighbors will be so jealous. My lawn will be the envy of the neighborhood. When they ask me what my secret is I'll tell them I water it by peeing on it every day. That would be kind of funny to see though, all my neighbors standing outside all weekend long pissing on their lawns, and I bet some of them are dumb enough to do it too.
Hmm, that was odd. While doing the spellcheck on this post, it suggested that I replace UFO's with wife's and peeing with penis. Man, who the hell writes these spellcheck progams anyway?
greasemonkey1320 at 1:10 AM
3 People who found a peppercorn
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at 5:22 AM
Candy said... Your so cute when you talk about your garage.
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at 4:19 PM
Katy Barzedor said...
Wait, you have a wife with a penis?
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at 2:03 PM
Madame D said...
I am ALL for paying professionals to clean out things like sewer lines.
Because there's nobody paying me to do it, mainly.