The Free Pool - A True Story And A Cautionary Tale. This true tale was brought to mind by a photo I saw in Charles Buell's recent blog: Summer time---time to jump in the Pool! His pool shot (photo) reminded me of a local incident. Married friends of mine had kids and bought a house in a near by commuter city. The price was right, etc, etc. Come spring they discovered a 15' deflated pool in the tall grass of the back yard. My friend , a fairly handy guy took weeks of spare time checking it out, reassembling it and making (11 comments)
Usually I'm presenting an aspect of home maintenance, value improvement or 'how too' instructions to feature best practice ways to do things around building and property issues.
Some times it's building tech history or how thing came to be as they are, the back story on terms, expressions and phrases.
I keep track of the strange, the unique, the special and interesting things I get to see, including the dangers. These are filed as OMGs. OMGs always have photos, so I share the file with you from time to time.
The rest come out of thin air. More than once I start writing a comment on someone else's blog and end up inking a whole new blog. Am I inspired or am I ranting? You can decide.