How many homes (palaces, castles, “cottages”, etc., does the Queen of England have at her disposal to live in? What’s the average number of rooms in each of them? Is there a family on earth with a more extravagant lifestyle, or a larger carbon footprint, than the British Royal Family?

surface-nailed white oak.  Not tongue and groove.  Too much trouble to even try.  It’s gonna squeak, and I’m not going to stop it.

I know of one newspaper that has a pay wall if you access it on a computer, but no pay wall if you access it on your phone.  However, the phone-friendly site is awful.

In the case of my 115-year-old house, I think the solution is to rip up the existing floor and sub-floor, install a new sub-floor of plywood, using construction adhesive and screws, and then lay a new tongue-and-groove floor on that.

What?  Were they thinking?

If you can do something, that doesn’t necessarily mean you should do it.

Bambi.  Bambi’s mom got killed.  Plus, when it comes right down to it, Bambi is a stag movie.

Lane discipline.

Mac & Cheese? I call the Kraft product Macaroni and Yellow. If there’s any cheese taste in it, I don’t detect it. The only good Mac & Cheese is homemade.

You can buy Ikea meatballs packaged to take home, but the sauce and the lingonberries are only available separately, so when you get them home, like most everything else Ikea sells, you do have to assemble them yourself (tools not included).

How smart you think someone is can change your perception of them drastically. I’m pretty smart, but far from physically gifted. In my youth, I was in Army basic training. DI’s were on my back and I was trying to lose enough weight to graduate. Then, the results of all the tests we had to take came in, and the DI’s…

If he was wearing it at the time, absolutely not.

Very impressive. I’m building a new garage in my backyard. It’ll be easy to park in the garage, but my driveway is very narrow, so I’m glad the cement-truck driver possessed similar skills when he had to deliver a load of concrete into the backyard for that garage’s foundation.

I’ll go along with the Mustang listed in the slide show. Not a great car, but last year in January, not long before the plague descended, I went to Kissimmee for the Mecum car show and rented a Mustang convertible at the airport. Guess what I got? Wrong! I got a Mustang convertible. A red one. It’s the first time in…

The only thing I like about winter (well, except Christmas) is turning my electric blanket up to broil about half an hour before I go to bed at night.

The only thing I like about winter (well, except Christmas) is turning my electric blanket up to broil about half an…

I haven’t been to Orlando recently.  Has the Suncoast Energy station nearest the airport raised its prices to keep up?

Doesn’t matter.  I can’t fit in your Miata, or anyone else’s.

You are doing God’s work.

and light-duty shelves with the keyhole hangers too. Why are those keyhole hangers never placed 16 or 24 inches apart?

Been in and out of MCO lots of times, but always in a rental.  I live about 30 minutes from JFK.  Nobody is going to steal either of my cars, but depending on the length of my trip there isn’t much difference between parking there or taking a limo to and from the airport.  So, I take the limo.