I'm in the US and I am getting really annoyed at this. I am not hard of hearing myself but I keep noticing how inaccessible this sort of thing is. I couldn't cancel Xfinity online; I had to call them on the phone. It seems really fishy to make it even harder for disabled people to cancel their subscription.
There are 3.38 servings per 5 fl oz?? Huh? Am I being really dumb?
We live in a dense residential city-adjacent environment near a river, so rats are a big thing here. This is our second dead rat in our back yard. It is unfortunately the latest in a long line of deaths including multiple baby rabbits. My wife watched a chipmunk die in front of her, and we haven't seen any marks on the animals that were still freshly dead, so we don't think its another animal killing them. We are worried that it is a neighbor who has poison out :( I would like to save some bones but I have a big OCD-level fear of disease from dead things. I like looking from afar and I enjoy buying stuff from other folks who ethically source and clean bones, but I don't think I can handle it myself. I have tried in the past and got too wigged out. I can't even pick up a feather without fear of disease. Because I am worried about poison, I have been burying the dead animals and giving them markers or bagging them but I really felt uncomfortable putting the last rat in a bag and throwing it in the trash. Made me feel really sick. I think it's some sort of ancestral thing in me about proper burial. It made me feel physically sick, whereas burying the animals doesn't make me feel sick at all???
Can anyone 👀 help me identify this door? I believe it's late 19th century but I would love to know more about it. We have three of them and there seems to be a missing fourth. I hope it's in the shed! 🤞
Thank you to everyone who helped us with info on the nails and saw marks on the house framing! We found one of the very old nails between the floorboards today :) Gonna frame it (no pun intended).
1880s house built by a farmer in New England. House has had a number of owners throughout the years. Wonder which of them might have left behind this saw!
The house is supposedly from 1880 and is a new England saltbox but the back portion is much newer. Fieldstone basement is only on the front rooms, and the back room has a much newer poured foundation. Trying to figure out if it really was a saltbox or if it was some sort of two on two without the single story backroom back when it was built, or maybe a one and a half like Rogana. Trying to figure out whether this is the original house or not, and if the strange staircase shaped hole covered up in an upstairs bedroom floor was a staircase or not... (like Rogana, there is a staircase shaped hole against the front wall, but like a saltbox the stairs are against the chimney in the center).
The house is supposedly from 1880, but I am not sure if anything had been reconstructed since then. This is the chimney which sits in the middle of a New England saltbox style house.
I need a bandaid fix just for this week's big storm. So far I have sandbags directing the water into the old 1800s well hole (?) on the basement floor. I don't have the money for a better fix right now (it also involves moving the oil tank tk reach the leak) but I will have someone coming in a month or so.
Here are a few videos to help explain better: https://imgur.com/a/w8oh9be
I have seen a few situations where a car veers off the road and into a house. I don't think someone would hit my house at speed, but things are still in a position that could hypothetically result in someone hitting my house at maybe a >1% chance. So not a huge deal but I'm just having fun thinking up lofty solutions. I have a typical US wood framed house but I have a 0 setback so I don't have the ability to put up big boulders or anything else as a barrier. Just dreaming up wild ideas--don't think I'd ever do this as I assume it's (a) overkill and (b) expensive and (c) there are those issues where someone makes their mailbox indestructible and it kills someone and then the mailbox owner is liable... But just humor me: could someone hypothetically put some sort of bracing in their walls as a barrier to keep cars from crashing through them? I feel like it could be useful for those houses you see that are right at the bottom of a hill and everyone is going like 40mph+ down it and you're like, holy crap, how has no one hit that house yet?
(TLDR at the bottom--sorry I realize this got a bit too long)
Over the last ten years, I've moved a total of 6 times. The next chapter of my life is most likely going to be in one place for much longer, and it's finally time I deal with the mess I've created. Some of my moves were rather rushed, and I ended up tossing everything that didn't have a good place into storage totes and shoving them in a closet or the basement. My family also unloaded all of my childhood stuff onto me, which is fair, but I have to actually go through it now.
My problem is that I often try to tackle this and end up with more piles of things that don't have a place yet because our house isn't fully renovated yet. Now I have a worse mess because it isn't contained and hidden in the totes anymore. I feel like I should delay longer or change the way I'm going about this.
Maybe I should focus on only separating between "go" and "stay" piles and then putting all the "stay" stuff back in the tote for now? And then go back through it once the house is ready to put things in their rightful place? Or is that just creating more work for myself? Does anyone have a good plan of attack that I could try to follow?
Two added struggles are:
- The time constraint of being a busy toddler parent with a full time office job. The only time I can devote to this is 8-10pm maybe 3-4 nights per week due to my schedule, and I usually use this time for house chores and home repair as well. Plus, some days I just have to be in bed early due to my physical constraints.
- Physical constraints due to my chronic pain and minor disability which causes difficulty in doing physical labor like lifting boxes, bending over, climbing up and down stairs. I have to sit in one place when I do something like this instead of running each object separately to its proper place. (as an example, when I do dishes I sit in a chair and lift all the dishes to the counter first making stacks of same plates/bowls/etc. Then, I stand up and move those stacks to the cabinet. I can't bend over, pick up one or two plates, straighten and lift the plates up to the cabinet and repeat multiple times. Sometimes I have to stop after making the piles and come back to it once my back has rested and I move everything from counter to cabinet after resting. Obviously my wife shares the load of house chores but I just give this example to explain why organizing these messes has been difficult for me to handle so far)
**TLDR; I have quite a few storage tubs full of random things that need to be sorted through and put in their rightful places, but I don't have a lot of time per cleaning session and I have stamina and pain issues due to a disability. The fixer-upper house isn't fully fixed up yet so not all objects can actually be put in their rightful places yet.**
I have a 4.7lb (2.1kg) projector with a wall mount that's probably a pound or so? It's pretty light but I'm not a great judge of weight. So a total of maybe 6-7 lbs on the wall.
I had this setup on a wood stud through drywall at my last house but I have since moved and want to use the same mount. Unfortunately (for this particular project), my new wall is 70s wood paneling and the stud is nowhere near where I want the projector mounted.
I don't think mounting this without the stud is a good idea. Would it be possible to screw a piece of lumber horizontally across two studs and then mount the projector on the lumber? I included a sketch of what I am trying to say. Sorry that it's so wiggly--I have trouble holding a stylus due to a disability)
Side note, don't judge my blue "aperture tape" on the photo of the projector lol the distance I have the projector is slightly off from what settings I can work with to change the screen size (the settings only go so far) so this is my quick fix for some slight bleed-over.
Please excuse the Amazon link. It was the first link I pulled up.
The wallpaper is super stuck to the wall so I haven't been lucky with finding a piece that I can peel off gently. Unless I get lucky with that, is there any way to cut a square of plaster lath wall? My other idea of course is to just put a frame over a small part of it and not redo that part of the wall!
I found this book at a gift shop a few weeks ago. Definitely for any tired parent, but as a parent with chronic pain and a spinal injury, this made me feel really seen and validated. You can surely make some of these up with your own imagination, but it's a great reminder that you don't have to always be jumping and running around with your kid, and you don't have to feel guilty if you *can't* jump around--whether you're just tired that day or you have a disability like me. Both are valid reasons to play horizontally.
Looking for some unique online shops for curtains that aren't Amazon or dropshipping. Under $200 and really any style--just interested in finding some new shops to browse! We need curtains for our bedroom which is a sort of bohemian or cottage-core, so anything goes, really!
There wasn't. I assume they are blocking under 13 year olds because of some sort of internet law maybe?? Very strange.
Speaking from experience...being special because I could read really well in preschool didn't set me up for success once everyone else could read well, too.
Maybe some sort of larvae? Sorry if these aren't bugs at all!