March also brought the opportunity of fixing my own dryer. My take-home lesson on the whole fix-your-own-appliances thing is:
applianceaid.com – This is the place to go for all the troubleshooting/repair steps to take.
Pray for wisdom – A definite must for the clueless DIY’er.
And for those of you just looking for a little dryer eye candy:
Here’s [...]
I’m not one of those “Mr. Fix-It” guys who can fix anything. I’m pretty cautious when it comes to home appliance repair. So if I had gotten those 4 words (“Honey, the washer’s broke.”) a couple of weeks earlier, I would have made a call to the Sears appliance repair.
But last Sunday at a soccer [...]
In preparing for a new school year, my wife decided that we needed a new white board. We had one 3′x3′ on the back of an Ikea easel, but she decided that it wasn’t going to be sufficient.
Big white boards, the kind that you get in a school are expensive, and so we decided to [...]
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Now that we’ve finished our tree house, I wanted to share some of the resources that I found useful. There are several books by David & Jeanie Stiles are written directly to those interested in building a tree house, play house or [...]
I’ve been posting exclusively to WordPress.com for several months now. I’ll have to say that I really like it much better than Blogger, and haven’t suffered the ongoing trouble that Blogger blogs have suffered recently. One of the things that I do miss, though, is being able to post via e-mail. WordPress.com [...]
I’ve been really happy with my Dell Dimension E510, which I’ve had for almost a year. It is a solid machine and much faster than our 1998 350MHz Compaq Presario. The Presario has now been relegated to the kid PC and serves as a typing tutor, Spanish teacher, and all around home school [...]
I’m sitting here at the computer ripping CDs to one track per disk. (It’s an audio book that I checked out from the library–will delete it from my MP3 player and harddrive once I’ve finished.) Previously I had done normal ripping, but my MP3 player works better with fewer tracks. So I’d stitch all the [...]
I’ve been tying my own shoes for about 30 years now and have pretty much been doing it the same way for the whole time. Called the “standard” shoelace knot, you know the drill:
Make a loop with one lace.
Wrap the other lace around the first one.
Push it through the hole.
Pull it tight.
Yawn. I mean who [...]
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