Good Morning.
This is the Anniversary Edition of Saturday Morning Home Repair blogging at DKos. My first effort, on August 12, 2006, introduced you all to your GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) circuit breakers and their need to be exercised. If you don't know what I'm talking about, follow that link to a bit of info that could save your life.
Thanks to Spud1 for manning the desk last week, and special thanks to all of you who visited with me at YK07. There are too many of you to list or remember correctly, as so many Kossaks went by in the swirl of faces.
So we are all back at home and hopefuly you don't have a drippy faucet or a leaky roof or other such problem, but if you do, here is where we gather weekly to talk about it or any other problem or project that may be distracting you from our One True Purpose in Life (electing Democrats) and share some advice from our group of professionals and gifted amateurs who check in each week.
Since that beginning, we have covered a variety of topics and helped a few people out with their home repair crises and marveled at some of the work Kossaks have done. We have also come to know each other a little better and and to see that behind these screen names are real people. That's what made YK for many of us, putting a face and a live being to a screen name.
The chickens are all well, although they say it's too hot. The kitties agree. Down vests and fur coats are not appropriate when it's 100 degrees. The adobe/strawbale well house has its bondbeam now and is ready for a roof.
I will be leaving this morning at 10 am to go sign a contract that begins a year of work. SMHRB will continue for the next year as well, although if any of you want to take a turn at manning the help desk, you are more than welcome. Email me and we'll talk about it.
If there is interest, I can keep you updated on what there is to see as an adobe house gets built from the ground up. For those of you who have inquired about ICF blocks, I'll be using them on this foundation. And the clients are Democrats, too.
So grab a cup of whatever, pull up a chair and gab with us about your house and its peculiarities and your dreams.