I picked up a baby gate this morning on freecycle. It’s a weird cloth one like I’ve not seen before. The prior owners evidently used it to keep dogs where they belong so as soon as I got it home the thing got disassembled and the cloth got tossed into the washer. I took this …
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Sliding Glass Door Insulation
I have a leaky sliding glass door. No, water doesn’t poor in every time it rains, cold air comes in. I don’t know why, by my apartment sucks – it pulls air in from the outside. So, I decided to insulate my sliding glass door. I looked at the sliding glass door insulation kits for …
Security Alarm
I had come across some very cheap (both in price and in quality) door and window alarms. Four for $4 at Menards. I saw them and thought, “oh, a housing and a reed switch.” Silly me… These things are quite cheaply made. No proper reed switch at all. Just a very cheap impersonation of one. …
Hauling a cabinet.
Work was throwing out an old metal cabinet that the door fell off of. So, I helped them throw it out to my place.Now that it’s home, I am going to fix the broken door with half a dozen rivets, rivet up the non-broken side as well, and I now have a nice, tired, scratched, …
Hide and Seek
So, I got home for lunch yesterday, and it was another round of hide and seek. One kitten was missing. The door for the spare bedroom was ajar – I had been leaving it closed, but with a small gap for ventilation. I knew right where the kitten was. Under the table saw. I go …