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Mr. Duct

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If you are having people come work on the house, you might hope that your house looks as nice and tidy as the photo above (in reality, that is 5338 Larkspur Lane in Woodridge, which is currently for sale and why it looks spotless :D). However, I was busy and almost forgot that the guys from Mr. Duct were coming last Friday, much less planned to clean ahead of time. They bring an industrial vaccum the size of a car and about 500 feet of snaky hoses to shove down your ducts and clean out all the spiders, dust and mold that may have taken up residence there. So when they arrived on Friday after noon, right on time, everything was pretty chaotic here..aka "normal". Sewing projects, cat covers on the upholstery, curtains with different hem lengths (curtains are always too long in this house), weird decos, multiple computers, cat toys...and the duct guys have to look in closets, because we have the returns go there for some inscrutable reason instead of the floor like a nor...

The Doll Shelf

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This is a first draft of a cabinet I would like J to make--he's willing to do it, but we are hampered at the moment by the fact the shop floor is mildly flooded and this lead indirectly to blowing a circuit, so that will have to be dealt with first. And lets be honest, any spare room in this cabinet is going to ask to be filled with another doll. Speaking of handy people, my niece fixed a toilet.. by herself. This is her diagnosing the problem: I would encourage this--I can vouch for how much plumbers make, since I have mine here in my phone contact list along with my immediate family.