Showing posts with label home maintenance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home maintenance. Show all posts

Thursday, May 28, 2009

She is Risen!

Okay. So you know how you sit down to pay some bills online and AT&T says, "Hey we can make your internet faster. Just click this button that says UPGRADE." Sweet, right?

EH! Wrong!

What that UPGRADE button really means is that you will be suddenly and unceremoniously without internet for a period of time that is totally unacceptable. It also means that some member of your household will get the pleasure of spending 3 hours listening to the crackling, lo-fi jams of the AT&T on hold music service. It means that you will discover just how decrepit your neighborhood phone lines are and you will become acquainted with several non-native English speakers as you spiral through the customer service chain of command.

And the DSL is only a little bit faster than it was before.

So, that's where I've been. Call off the search and rescue team.

Here's a belated Wardrobe Wednesday photo. Mr. Linky will return in all his glory next week.
























*That's a naked child wearing a cape, in case the photoshop flower confused you.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Grunge Match 2009: Heathen Family vs. The Grass

We would not do well in the suburbs. Our skill and enthusiasm for lawn work is matched only by our love of dental appointments.


However, our desire to create a safe play jungle space for Violet motivates us to do the bare minimum of landscaping.


Of course, I took photographs of the epic grass growth before
 it was hacked to mulch by our $80 lawn mower.

If it weren't for the bugs and the hidden piles of dog poo, I think Violet would enjoy keeping the yard shaggy.



Monday, September 8, 2008

Heathen Family Makes Dramatic Transition to Lower Middle Class Livin'

 
I know what you're thinking. When did the Heathen Family get so damn classy? I mean, duct tape window screen repair? I have long dreamed of a time in my life when I could boast possessing the skill and the means to perform home maintenance of this quality. The Heathen Family is living the American Dream. But, don't think me too big for my own britches. I will strive to keep the "common touch", as Kipling would say.

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