Tag Archive for "Fables of the Home Re-Construction"

May

Pic a Day in May: Day 1

Jim of Jim's Stuff has started the "Pic a Day in May" challenge. So I thought I'd go ahead and give it a shot. It's not like I can really think of anything to blog about these days anyway. So we'll go with my life in pictures. There's that whole "a picture is worth a thousand words" thing anyway, so that just means I need to write less.

Today is Tuesday. It's the last of my days off this week. Which for me means cleaning up the mess I made outside from this weekend's construction activities.

Here's a panoramic view from the center of the parking area/driveway at the house. (Click to see the full size picture.)

As you can see, nature is quite colorful here in Pea Ridge, Arkansas at the moment. Things are blooming and growing and being all pretty.

My sawhorses are still there in the yard. We don't have a garage, so I have to work outside when I have a project. Which is sometimes okay. Unless it's raining. There's some trash bags and scrap MDF lying around as well that all needs to be disposed of.

You can see some remnants of the Husbear's projects as well: concrete & mortar bags for the terraced walls in the yard, and compost for the landscaping.

One of these days we might be done with all these goings on so we can actually "enjoy" it.

Taken with 360 Panorama on my iPhone 3GS.

Until next time...

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posted 21 days ago at 8:56 pm in Meme

tags: All About MeMe, Fables of the Home Re-Construction

Apr

It’s Getting Hot In Here

The air conditioning unit decided to not work yesterday afternoon. You know, on the hottest day on record so far for Pea Ridge, Arkansas. A high of 86 degrees.

Nor did it work the rest of the night.

This is the same HVAC unit we had installed less than eight years ago.

So the HVAC people were called, and they came out to the house today.

And... the heat pump decided to rub a hole in it's line yesterday at some point. Releasing all it's freon into the atmosphere. All. Empty.

And... the entire thing will have to either be repaired for around a grand-five. Because apparently the type of freon in our system is in high demand (i.e., less supply means higher price) due to a change in government regulations phasing out R-22 freon.

Or we will have to replace the unit, for who knows what price. Well, we'll know what the price is when they come out to talk to us in a few more days with estimates.

*sigh*

I wonder how much I'll have to pimp out the Husbear for, and how many times, in order to recoup that cost?

Until next time...

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posted 49 days ago at 11:42 pm in Ponderings

tags: Fables of the Home Re-Construction

Sep

2011

Of Libraries and Fireplaces

I've been so busy playing catch up with everything else in life that I really haven't gotten around to posting anything of substance since we returned from NOLA. That, and I'm still catching up with the blogs I follow.

StevieB asked to see everyone's DVD collection. So here you go:

(click to see the library up close, if you dare...)

That's our DVD/Blu-Ray collection. Mixed in with a more traditional form of entertainment: books!

Obviously this picture doesn't include the (currently) 3 terabytes of movies and television series I have digitally stored on my computer, but who really wants to see a picture of my computer?

And before you ask, yes, the bookshelves are jutting out in to the middle of the room. My desk is located behind it at the moment. We're toying with splitting the office into a closet and library, and the bookshelves are located on the line where the wall would be for the closet.

And as for the strange floating shape attached to the wall? The house has an unusually designed fireplace system. At least I think it's unusual. The fireplace runs through all four rooms in the original part of the house, and then connects in the attic. From what we can tell, the two downstairs rooms originally had potbelly stoves in them. We're not sure about the upstairs. The fireplace itself is currently unusable, so we covered the existing brickwork when we remodeled the rooms.

Here's a simple front-view of the house and how the fireplace runs.