An Almost Battery Tragedy

exploded cell phone battery

Cell phone after the battery started on fire while it was sitting on a desk in the house.

Why do bad things happen to good people?  Have you ever asked that question?  Have you ever heard someone else ask that question?  Maybe the answer is, to stop worse things from happening.

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The Little Greenhouse That Could

Vevor smaller greenhouse

My initial dream for the small greenhouse was to extend the growing season for my herbs and jump start them earlier the next year.  She did just that and now she is doing so much more.

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Upgraded Ceiling Tiles

This is what the bedroom ceiling looked like before the upgrade.  This is a basement bedroom.  Nothing fancy, boring, typical office building cubicle style esthetics.

Bedroom ceiling before update

Initially when we bought the house the wall where the picture hangs was not there it was open into the stairwell/pool table area on one end and open into the mechanical room on the other end.  One wall is an outside wall and the other is an interior cement block wall.  The original owners had covered all the walls in redwood planks, which were stained not painted.

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Trader Buck Saga Update

Trader Buck’s, for us here at the Logansport location, has been the gift that just keeps on giving.  Maybe other have had different experiences.  This post describes what our experience with having a booth with them has been.

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Raised Beds and Garden Greenhouses

Our garden has undergone many shapes, types and sizes.  We have done the tilled in the ground type.  We used railroad ties and trucked in good dirt and tried that.  We have fenced it in with the chickens (huge mistake).  We have left it fenced in with the chickens but fenced them out (also huge mistake raccoons, chickens and then 3 kids laid waste to it).  We had given up, until we discovered square foot gardening.

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Greenhouses

My mom used to say, “The old people were always happy till the Sears catalog arrived.” For anyone who never received the Sears catalog it was like YouTube and Amazon had a baby, and it was made from paper. When TV came out, we had commercials that explained to everyone why their lives were incomplete and then told them exactly what product, toy, fashion apparel would bring joy. TV shows, movies, and magazines told us and showed us the amazing lives that everyone else was living. Those things were nothing compared to the Sears catalog which existed long before film confirmation that we should be unhappy and most of those magazines might never be seen, oh but that catalog in all its free glory was the bringer of despair. What does this have to do with greenhouses and raised beds?

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The Buck Stops Here

A Trader Bucks opened here in Logansport, Indiana.  We were so excited because we had decided to get a booth and become a vendor.  The idea had been that this year we would finally get some inventory built up and start doing the craft shows.  However, with husky in tow this was going to become more complicated.  Having a stationary booth in a building was the answer.  We would not need to sit there all day, no loading up, driving, setting up, packing up, driving home and repeat that for as many days as a show went on.  The reality has been, complicated, and not worth the time or money we put in.

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Basement Bedroom Ceiling Tile Redo

Moen one handle 1225 replacement cartridge

Moen one handle 1225 replacement cartridge

This is how it started. This small fairly inexpensive little part. It seemed so innocent, so well intentioned, so needed, right before it all went horribly, horribly wrong in a spectacular manner.

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Automate Print Head Cleaning To Prevent Clogs

Have you ever gone to print something and the printer either won’t print or prints streaks or has missing print?  Ink can dry and cause the print head to no longer be able to move ink through it.  Some kinds of ink, such as sublimation or DTF, are more prone to clogging than others.  If any inkjet printer sits for too long without printing through all the print heads, problems can arise.   Sending a print job at least once a week that will use all the heads can help to prevent problems.  You can do this manually or you can schedule it to happen but not all printers allow for scheduling via their software and not all printers can be accessed via the internet.  You can create your own internal setup that will send a scheduled print job to each printer on your network or physically connected to your device.

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Chom Chom Roller Pet Hair Remover review

This review is not sponsored, we are not getting paid, they don’t even know we did it. It has nothing to do with woodworking, gardening, art, sewing, and I had promised myself I was going to cut back on review posts. Yet here we are. I felt compelled to write this because for years I have searched for something that would be simple and effective in my battle between woman and beast. I wish I could find the video that inspired me to buy this because I would link it here. Laura did a quick little video of her cleaning an outdoor chair that her cat, Russel, likes to sit on. You can find her and her cat here at Garden Answer. I was in awe as she quickly removed a thick layer of cat hair from the outdoor cushion. I trusted what she was saying more than I trust a lot of reviews, it was sincere, it was honest and I almost fell running to my computer to buy one.

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