Last year, we counted and recorded everything in our three-bedroom house -- all 7,941 objects.
Here's what we found. Give it a try -- perhaps starting with one category. It's helped us better appreciate the things we own.
Thanks Crayola, I really appreciate having duplicates when I could have had more red colors!
Some folks asked for an update on the paving power wash after my garden furniture power wash adventures.
I haven’t had time to do the oil on the furniture because we have visitors in an hour
Excuse the bald spots in the lawn, our dog (pictured) likes chewing the lawn up.
They were filthy and mossy. Have since power washed the paving too
I estimate 3 more applications. I’ll purchase my new one after the penultimate application. Just to be safe.
Some weeds are quite pretty, foxglove for example but Im curious what is the scourge of everybody else's allotment!
Mine is creeping buttercup, takes over so fast and a real pain to weed!
I’m not sure if I should blame inspector number six or number nine. Maybe they both should get a strongly worded letter.
I just made my first hand crank generator with 4 old hoverboard wheel motors, a washing machine inductor motor (just for tension) and it's transmission axel for another tension wheel and driving wheel. It's pulley is paracord and I've used 2x4s for the frame. Feast your eyes 😂
Next I intend to get a larger driving wheel and a wider crank ratio for more leverage.
Then I'm to scavenge rectifiers to convert all these to DC, then an on/off switch followed by capacitor to smooth out voltage spikes, followed by a charge controller followed by the batteries. Alternatively I understand I could use a buck boost converter?
Then I can power anything DC within reason.
I'd like to know y'all's thoughts on this. Before this I was a combat medic in the army and I've never had experience with electrical or engineering work.
Edit: just formulated a plant to turn three old weed eaters and three rusty drums into smaller steam piston engines. Soon this will turn this crank.
At home, at work, wherever, I tend to go for the same spot automatically. Only noticed when it was taken and I had to sit somewhere else.
The one thing missing is rubber cement. I got a flat tire on my mower yesterday and luckily I had a spare inner tube.
Today when the pump top hand soap in the family bathroom needed to be refilled, I reached for the unopened bulk hand soap bottle which I had recently had the forethought to purchase and mentally prepared myself for the messy refilling job.
As l brought the bottle up I instantly noticed something was new. The cap of this bottle, which I've been buying for years, is usually a simple screw top. But today, I was surprised to see the screw top cap has been replaced by one with a flip up nozzle.
It was with great joy that I refilled the smaller hand soap dispenser from the large bulk container, without spilling a drop, and easily regulating the flow as it neared the maximum fullness.
I called the children from around the house so this could become both a teachable moment and a core memory for them. They seemed highly impressed and, before they left, thanked me individually for refilling the soap dispenser for them.
Overall a pretty great day.
I’m not sure if I should blame inspector six or inspector number nine. One way or another someone’s getting a strongly worded letter.
I’m not sure if I should blame inspector number six or number nine. Maybe they both should get a strongly worded letter.
I’m not sure if I should blame inspector number six or number nine. Maybe they both should get a strongly worded letter.
I’m not sure if I should blame inspector six or inspector number nine. One way or another someone’s getting a strongly worded letter.