Friday Fun

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Fixin’ it Friday

1. Who is the handyman in your house? Or do you call for reinforcements?

That would be Beast in most cases. Sometimes it's me. Depends on what we're fixing.

2. What is the last thing that broke in your house,… and who fixed it?!

Well, I'm not sure this counts, but our fridge needed the water-filter changed last weekend, and I took care of it.

3. What is the most disasterous fix-it story you have?

In our last house, for the first four or so years we lived there EVERY project we started turned into a nightmare because of what we found under the original problem. For instance, removing the falling-down wallpaper in the bathroom? Great...except for the bits that were GLUED TO THE DRYWALL with plain white glue. So, yeah, patching the wallboard around a pipe in the garage in the wall that was shared with the inside of the house? Piece of cake...except there was only insulation at the END of the pipe, not further back, so when winter came, the middle of the pipe freezes and floods the basement.

Is it any wonder why I hated that house?!

4. Ever had one of those fix-it moments that was tragic at the moment, but hysterically funny afterwards?

I dunno about 'tragic' but there've been some killers (see #3) where I thought Beast was going to stroke out. My dad was a builder, so I've been doing this kind of stuff my whole life. For instance, there was the time when our water heater sprung a leak and Dad had me crawl over the top of it with a wrench in my hand to hang upside down and turn off the water behind the heater (it was stuck in the door of the furnace room--don't ask, I have NO idea!). I had bruises on my midsection for a week, and marching and playing in the stands at the football game that night wasn't a lot of fun either.