10 minutes to 2 hours

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Linda Andrews

We have had a chimney top damper sitting in a box in our living room for four months now. Yesterday, we decided to install it.

It should have been easy.

The directions made it look like it would be easy. A single sheet of paper broken into two sections—one for the rooftop and the other for inside the house.

We should have known better. Okay, maybe not. The cable that I dropped down the chimney went into the lining of the chimney and it took the hubbinator several tries with nearly every broom and tool on a stick to fish it out.

Then we had to figure out just the right length we need to close the damper on the top. Which wasn’t hard but I didn’t tighten the screws tight enough on the cable so the cable came loose and the damper popped open.

But it’s all done now.

And I must say, it is nice not to hear the chimney breathe when the wind kicks up.

Until next time. Stay healthy my friends.

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Friday Fun Fact

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Linda Andrews

If you wait long enough, most of the dishes in the dishwasher will put themselves away.

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Authors Give Back

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Linda Andrews

Smashwords is having a sale. This time, authors are making many of their books free, or 30% or 60% off.

Here is my page, where many of the first in a series are free: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lindaandrews

Here is the link to the sale page:

https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/1/any/any

Stay healthy my friends.

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Doing Nothing

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Linda Andrews

I would like to say that we relaxed all weekend, binge watching Gilligan’s Island and eating Bon- bons.

Not quite.

We spent Friday night and Saturday morning going to 7 stores to try to find the items on our grocery list. for the most part, everyone was in good spirits and joking about the shortages.

We were shopping for 2 homes and we saw on our neighborhood app, that others were sharing bulk supplies from Costco.

We did splurge on the dog and bought him a new bed.

He doesn’t mind that it is pink.

The cat and the dog are beginning to fight over who actually gets to sleep on the bed. For now, he is all comfy and sleeping. Soon, he’ll get hot and lay on the tile and the cat will move it.

If cats and dogs can share, so can people.

Stay healthy my friends. Until next time.

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Friday Fun Fact

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Linda Andrews

Work: Go not just for the paycheck but also the toilet paper.

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I made a thing

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Linda Andrews

Well, it took me about a month of designing and redesigning, but I finally made the necklace. It’s made of wooden and metal beads and is very lightweight.

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I do like the way it turned out except the bail (the part that holds the pendant to the necklace). The wire seems too thin and ready to snap. Part of the problem is the hole in the pendant is very small.

I may redo that part later, but for now, I like wearing it.

Until next time, stay healthy my friends.

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The Final Leg

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Linda Andrews

I am 31 days from the self-imposed deadline for my latest book. I thought I’d give myself an energetic boost by sketching out the end of the book.

As it stood on Sunday, I have a little over 80K words.

After sketching the rest of the points, I think I have 16 more chapters. This means there are probably 20 left.

Given the chapters that remain to be written, I think my deadline may be a shifting line. Ah well, the joys of writing and I have to remember not to rush. I’ll get there in the end. I just have to be patient.

Until next time.

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Friday Fun Fact

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Linda Andrews

My favorite two words of the week: Paid Vacation.

Not going anywhere, just staying home and enjoying the rain.

Happy Friday!

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Booksigning Cancelled

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Linda Andrews

Hello everyone,

I am sorry to report my book signing this weekend at the Tucson Festival of Books has been canceled.

I hope I can meet some of you at Phoenix Fan Fusion at the end of May.

Until next time!

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Give an inch

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Linda Andrews

The hubbinator and I have been watching Time Team on amazon Prime. For those of you who have never heard of the program, it started sometime in the 1990s and ran for a rather large number of years.

We are on Season 9

The premise of the show is: a team of diggers and archeologists team up to work on a site for 3 days. They usually start with a question they want to answer and then using ground penetrating radar (or whatever they call it), they look for anomalies that could indicate buildings or disturbed ground.

They’ve found everything from Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman settlements to missing Medieval castles and a downed World War fighter.

But the best part is when they find a shard of pottery no bigger than a nail clipping and can show the pot it came from. The hubbinator and I have a bet that the smaller the shard the bigger the pot.

It’s good fun.

Until next time.

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