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27-52-HomeDIYAdventurePt3

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This adventure started when the most recent water bill landed. Not that the extra 600 gallons (2271 Litres) of usage cost that much more but the fact that we have been here for over a year and our water usage is pretty much the same most months and probably has not varied more than 20 or so gallons adjusted for seasons. As we are well into the summer and we are running the lawn sprinklers twice a day for five minutes

26-52-HomeDIYAdventurePt2

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About a year ago we moved into a new to us house. For the better part of a year prior we were apartment dwellers with a lot of stuff in storage. Just prior to this was a 2,200 mile trip to move to the Pacific Northwest. By then my lawn mower was almost 10 years old, all electric and had been through three sets of SLA (sealed lead acid) batteries and a conversion to LiOn batteries that I did a couple of years before. The

25-52-HomeDIYAdventures

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It would appear that one of the hardest things to do is replace a screen door. Not the actual installation of said screen door but actually getting one. And one that works. So the adventure started just over a week ago at 8:00 AM when I found a screen door that I wanted for our garage. This was to replace the one the previous owners had installed, a velcro/magnetic thing that was old, tired and torn. There was no

24-52-AlasPoorFirefox

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The slow death of a browser Alas, poor Firefox! I knew it, Internet: a browser of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: it hath borne me on it's back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those tabs that I have viewed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not