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murph — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:14:47 -0800

tearing the bathroom down to the studs – you’d be lucky to get off with just a widescreen TV and a laptop.

I’m thinking you’d need to throw in a new fridge or two.

Seriously, I feel your pain. Our house keeps pointing out the things we should have done instead of blowing everything on the kitchen. (Roof? windows? Hello…)

Look at it this way, you’re doing your part to shore up our hellbound economy.

You FINE American, you!!!

Social Justice Crusader

murph — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:20:09 -0800

Social Justice Crusader

Me too.

Ryan K — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:03:23 -0800

You can't call him stumpy...

Ryan K — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:14:58 -0700

… but you could call him Lefty. It would be ironic.

I’m sure he’ll be fine. That’s the thing with cats… and cockroaches… and Cher, they’re very resilient.

I'm pulling for a speedy recovery!

Phaedra — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:50:29 -0700

Spike is a tough guy, with a tough guy name. He’ll be fine in no time. I know he will!

My thoughts are with you all.

There are LOTS of sites out there for tripods if you need to find anyone else to talk to about it… I’ve seen tripod dogs run and play just as much as the 4-legged variety.

hooray for lopsided cat!

Ziemendorf — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:44:02 -0700

Monty was pretty loopy for quite some time after both his anesthesia and drugs. I hope Spike will recover just as well. I wonder if he has little phantom limb pain like human amputees do. Well, on the bright side, you won’t have trouble identifying him from other cats in the neighborhood. He’s now unique!

Poor Spike!

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:22:19 -0700

Hope he recovers quickly. I’m glad you didn’t have to resort to option 3!

poor cat!

Ziemendorf — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:12:42 -0700

Poor Cat!

Best wishes for a complete recovery! I hope you can figure out what happened!

School reading

Jonathan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:58:23 -0700

You had to read twice as many in school as I did. I guess my teachers didn’t want to be bothered reading book reports.

Oh and I did mean both of you. I should have tagged “Mr. and Mrs. Armless Bear.”

mmm... tomatoes

Erin — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:50:03 -0700

Will there be any left in a couple weeks? I’m going to be gone for a while, otherwise I’d totally be there, pulling weeds and all.

Oh, is it that time?

Phaedra — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:53:38 -0700

See MY tomatoes (planted July 4th you will recall) are not yet full grown, let alone close to producing fruit.

Ha ha ha ha!

Maybe I can get it together a little earlier next year!

I'll be coming over this evening!

Ziemendorf — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:10:10 -0700

Well, trying to move stuff, but I’ll take tomatoes!

City of Madison Loan

Phaedra — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:40:19 -0700

http://www.cityofmadison.com/planning/cedu.html

I got the housing rehabilitation loan from the city for my windows and solar cells:

http://www.cityofmadison.com/planning/cedu/Documents/HRSPILsum.pdf

Good luck! And I love your house AND location!!!

Violations, etc

kirstin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:22:46 -0700

Oh, there are some bare wires coming out of an, um, junction box thingy in the ceiling. Some romex pulled around vents instead of being pulled through holes drilled in the joists, a switch mere inches (like 2”) above a basement sink, and a couple others which I forget. The guy quoted the re-wire because that’s what he does a lot of, electrical renovation in old houses. We don’t have knob and tube wiring, but previous owners have done some creative wiring in the past that have created and/or compounded the blowing the circuit problem.

But, on the bright side… we bought this house because of size, price and location. We knew that there would be some things that required fixing, repairing, or replacing.

Really, I just like to “complain” about things. And blogging about it gives me a place to look back to when I want to know when we did a certain thing to the house.

Ow

murph — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:04:08 -0700

Holy crap. Dude was willing to quote a re-wire – but you don’t really need one do you?

What kind of violations? exposed splices or ulp knob & tube….?

Say it ain’t so…