We’ve lived in this house for nearly 18 years. I am a stay at home mom, who most of the time has been supervising at least seven children throughout it’s 3400 square feet of rooms and hallways. It is familiar territory. Sure, we’ve altered it slightly a couple of times. Once we remodeled the kitchen, which […]
Helpless Female Assists Master Handyman with Bike Tube Plumbing Job for Temporary Washing Machine Drain to Lawn
There is a particular category of non-crucial, non-threatening, very inconvenient crises. It includes instances such as the washing machine drain becoming clogged the last day before leaving on vacation – well before you have all the laundry done. Three applications of a liquid plumbing chemical were ineffective. As I was holding the drainage hose over […]
Simple Arched Trellis for Grapes or Pole Beans
Green beans are one of the most reliable warm weather home gardener’s crops in Southwest Idaho. I like to start with bush beans, for some beans to eat earlier in the summer, but pole beans are the staple of late summer and freezing for winter. The trick has been to find a trellis that: […]
Helpless Female Works on Transforming Chicken Coop into Anti-Fox Chicken Bunker
I had never seen a live wild fox up close until last week. Now I am intimate enemies with it. I was caught off guard and felt all the helplessness of seeing it show up in broad daylight and kill chickens while I was a few feet away in the house. So, we moved the […]
Helpless Female Faces Sprinkler Connectors Aisle
Have you ever been to shop for connectors and joints for sprinklers? There’s this whole aisle of little white and grey pieces, with various sizes of threads, attachment points, and bends. There are tiny little labels under each box that give the the dimensions, which is fairly useless for me because I can’t seem to […]