House cleaning is one thing apparently most people do often….. I don't know bout that part …. I do know the barn and yard cleaning around here really needs doing at least every 10 years and with Dennis is help I've been at it and I find ….
I am the proud owner of 3 nearly new looking BMW tires .I have no clue where they came from or why I should have 3 . I also have 4 new tires for my Sequoia because when I bought it the tires it had on it well the kind with no knobbies at all -----in my lifestyle I need snow tires year round not for the snow necessarily but the mud and everything else I get into so I changed those the first day I owned that car . this gives me a grand total of seven tires that are up for grabs for anybody who could use them especially if they make a donation would be nice . I did offer one BMW tire to Dennis As a spare …if he could put it on his car to prove it fits .
that hasn't happened yet.
This cov interlude has caused much house cleaning to take place and one of my neighbors called with eight big crates dog crates that they want they could get out of their cellar . I don't get out and drive around much lately I'm waiting for the temperature it'll be less than 90 because my car's air conditioning is broken and if I could just last another couple weeks I won't need to have it fixed till next June .
With that attitude of ….. why fix the roof it's not raining now , …. it
brings up the matter of the chimney and the chimney fire… which thanks to modern technology I now must put in a stainless steel liner to protect the house from the fact that one 6 inch piece of mortar got chipped away in the fire between the ceramic liner which has been fine for 35 years…. -----keeping in mind that ceramic liner is still 24 inches away from anything burnable
my fires are mostly caused by burning Cardboard too much all at once and with a bang it burns out the creosote ---that's how I thought you cleaned chimneys
I didn't call the fire Department when it happened because I've had so many before that I had always just let burnout without any complications . there's a lot of fieldstones AKA rocks in that chimney that probably measures 6 foot by 4 foot from cellar to roof . but somebody came in and inspected my chimney with a camera and found this little chinke in the mortar so they reported it to the fire Department that I had this chinkc and now I can't use the chimney until I put in a $5000 liner or my insurance is no good
however there is one story.... my husband was burning paper in the fireplace .. in the summer—and I heard the familiar BANG….I didn't really do too much about it until I notice the skylights there was a tiny flame right next to the skylight where apparently the pine needles which were on there we're burning I I know about roof fires and I thought that's probably not a very good thing to have happened--- so I screamed and JANINE, who was in the guest house heard Me and came running -----the fact she was scantily clad , shall we say , in her Victoria's secret's best was Immaterial ----there was an emergency and she was dealing----so I grabbed the 8 foot yellow wooden ladder which I was using to hold our towels in the bathroom and ran out and held that in position for her to climb onto the roof----- the 8 foot didn't reach the roof it was a little wobbly but she got up it with me holding it----- I handed her the fire extinguisher and she extinguished the fires--- there were several fires actually up there---- what I didn't know while all this happened was that my husband had gone down the driveway looking for a call box. being a city dweller….. he thought there would be one on every telephone pole … he eventually got to the fire Department and told them and they came roaring up the driveway with two trucks in a whole lot of men in big black jackets and boots------they arrived just as jeanine needed help getting down from the roof with this ladder , which was too short in the first place.------ however they were very happy to help her slide down through the foam of the fire extinguisher …. and one was heard to say “I wish all our calls were like this .”
actually THE FIRE CHIEF TOOK ME ASIDE AND SAID… “NEXT TIME CALL US.. WE DON’T CHARGE FOR VISITS”--------SO I PLAN TO DO THAT.
and eggs that float are too old? ( i willl have to try that one.)
