Home Ownership Terrors, Recreation, and Hobbies
Okay so here’s my mouse trap story. I’ve known for a while there were mice in the basement. If you’re a reader of my blog you know that my basement is just a hole blown in the blue stone/shale big enough for giant spiders, the water heater, furnace, oil tank and mice. It’s about 5 […]
Continue Reading My Mice vs Ortho Home Defense Max Kill and Contain Mouse Trap
I have a new project I’m working on. I’m pretty excited about this one but I’m not going to go into too much detail yet. I was at a surplus shop the other day and picked up some pieces I needed for the new project. Can you guess at what I’m building by looking at […]
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My last post, quite a while ago was “We Finally Got Some Snow” and since then we’ve been hit by storm after storm. It’s a lot of work clearing out the snow and such, but it’s pretty cool to have a good Winter finally after several years of lame ones. We’re still in the midst […]
Continue Reading Okay We've Gotten Quite a Bit More Snow
Well after watching everyone else in the country get some snow we finally got a little bit over the weekend. I don’t know how much snow actually fell in our area, but it came along with high winds and drifted quite high in the yard. In some areas around here it was blown down to […]
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In part one of my TED Power Monitor Review I covered the installation of the TED-5000 Energy Usage Monitor. In part 2 I will cover the software features and functionality of the Footprints software included with TED. In part 3 I am going to cover the setup and usage of Google Power Meter. Please remember […]
Continue Reading Review:Monitoring Power Usage With TED 5000-C Part 2
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