One year my wife decided to have a party on New Year’s Eve in a hotel overlooking the fireworks in our city. We were at the perfect altitude to see the festivities. When the fireworks started, of course everyone moved toward the window...the freezing cold window, which promptly fogged up with everyone breathing on it.…

Yeah, when I think of Making America Great Again, I harken back to a time when every community in the world was shit stained and smelled like that auditorium.  That’s what MAGA means to me - a big shit stained America.

If the space is marked “COMPACT CARS ONLY,” park your Expedition, Armada, or Escalade somewhere else. Same for pickups with dualies.

If you are in Texas and must park in the shade of a tree, check the spot for bird crap before you park and leave it for 3 days.

If you’re parking in a busy parking lot (ie lots of people looking for spots), don’t be that jerk that has to block traffic by backing into the space.

We moved into a house with a KitchenAid dishwasher.  About 9 months later it stopped draining.  It turns out this brand takes about an hour of disassembly before you can start to diagnose the problem.  I’m getting an easier dishwasher. 

VLC also allows frame by frame forward, but not backward.  Same keys. 

Okay, okay, you guys/gals. Let’s forget what Dr. Yuko wrote and rethink the idea of sugar. She has a reputation of writing some crackpot ideas, and yes, the way this was written, it’s another in her long curriculum vitae. However, the idea of using sugar as an organic fertilizer is an old, old one and has merit. She…

Don’t forget about adding more electric outlets to an older bathroom. Our 1960 house only had outlets in the light fixtures above the mirror. I added one behind the door for a heater, a quad outlet above the sink for nightlight, rechargers, etc.; and a 20 Amp outlet where my wife plugs in her heated hair appliances.…

We just remodeled two bathrooms while we were living in the house. That means one bathroom at a time. In the first bathroom we made a mistake in the purchase of a Broan heater/vent/light combination. I watched with some degree of horror as the contractor install it. The first thing he did was disassemble the entire…

We’ve remodeled seven bathrooms in and around San Antonio and have used all the paint sheens with success including flat.  The flat surprised me that it worked so well.  The argument for gloss or semi gloss is that you can wipe it down.  It seems the flat never needed to be wiped down.  We’re using eggshell now. 

Building codes are a little different everywhere.  We’ve been able to simply vent to the attic crawl space. 

Many years ago in Boston’s North End we had a frosty, non-alcoholic dessert they called Limoncello. Claire, have you seen any recipes for something like that?

Sprinkle ammonium sulfate fertilizer around where the slugs live and feed. Ammonium sulfate looks like rock salt and it acts the same way on slugs and snails. As soon as the varmint contacts the salt, it’s curtains. It literally works to kill 100% of them overnight. Now, having said that, they do leave eggs behind, so…

So MY recipe is 1 part mayonnaise, 1 part vinegar, and 1 part sugar. If you want to jazz it up add 1 part ketchup and 1 part pickle relish. I usually make my parts equal to 1 cup which makes a lot. The sugar will dissolve by itself, but if I’m in a hurry I make simple syrup using the hot vinegar instead of water.…

My dad used charcoal and so I used charcoal; however, I hated the long startup time and inability to control the heat. Sometimes the coals were already burned out by the time I got the meat on. My wife badgered me into getting a gas grill, but I cheaped out on it. It did not last long, but it did last long enough that…

When I moved to San Antonio in 1981, the state of the art of weather prediction was much more primitive. All I can say is when they predicted a 80% chance of rain, my car would be dry.  But if they predicted a 20% chance of showers, it was wet every time. 

Hilarious!

I’m not sure how you connect the dots from the story to defunding, nor do I care, but you do realize this was a SWAT situation and these were not SWAT cops involved in the controversy. SWAT are the guys who enthusiastically march into danger. They have special weapons/gear and train as a team for these types of…

We took the approach of, “What’s the hurry?” We assumed they would figure it out themselves before they started dating.