The alleyway behind the house flooded. During the deluge, the alley flooded into my garage. The floor is five inches or so below grade. Purchased a pond pump and it’s out there now, pumping the water back out into the alley.
Grim Work
Robespierre, a frequent contributor at Fodor’s Travel Talk Forums online, suddenly stopped posting to the boards in July of last year. NPR’s All Things Considered did an essay on why he stopped and the reactions of his fellow forum posters. Robespierre died. People he knew online — friends and acquaintances — knew only that...
Doughty’s Surgery Update
Pulmonic Stenosis is a congenital obstruction in the right heart that restricts the flow of non-oxygenated blood out of the heart, into the pulmonary artery and on to the lungs for oxygenation. The condition leads to an enlarged heart (“hypertrophy”) and eventually failure and sudden death. The degree of obstruction is determined by measuring...
Kitchen Nook Cabinet
Our house has a nook at the back of the kitchen. We didn’t have a use for it, so stuff started piling up on a folding table we set up last Christmas. I built a cabinet to replace the folding table. The plan was to tile the counter-top to match the existing counter-top (as...