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With the recent passing of the Bennet family dog, some of Anna’s things were given to us to benefit Yuki when she visits, one of which was the dog door for the patio slider.
Patio sliding doors are pretty much all the same, right? Ought to be able to just take the dog door out of [...]

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We recently received a coupon in the mail for air duct cleaning at a low price. Since I had never seen it done, I took pictures. A few days later, I read an article in the [...]

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While I was unemployed, we, my most excellent spouse Patricia and I, kept our fingers crossed that we would not incur any major unexpected expenses. For the most part we did not. But as you might suspect with a thirty year old house, which we have lived in for twenty-three, they cannot be kept in [...]

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A week or so ago the Santa Ana winds blew through the county for twenty hours straight. The newspaper said it hit 78 miles an hour in Fremont Canyon. It was much less than that on my little patch of ground but still enough to awaken me around 4 AM. Cleaning up afterward was an [...]

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After thinking about removing the old light fixture, I just could not imagine a good outcome. Even if I did manage to get the old one out, I now had serious doubts that the new one could be installed and not leak without the kind of treatment the manufacturer had done on the original. Since [...]

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Back in 1995 when my father succumbed to liver cancer, my siblings and I each inherited a small amount of money from his estate. Most of it went straight to savings. But since my most excellent spouse, Patricia Ann, suffers from arthritis, we did spend some of it on a hot tub. Nearly everyday for [...]

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