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In article <elbml8$8qk_001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jmfbahciv@xxxxxxx says...
> In article <MPG.1fe1fd93a34fa40e989dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> krw <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >In article <el91vv$8ss_003@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >jmfbahciv@xxxxxxx says...
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> >> They can't see the inside. I'm painting everything shiny white
> >> so I can see again. I'm almost to the point where I can put
> >> up JMF's blowup picture of the KI with a VT05 running SYSDPY
> >> in my junk room. But first, I have to wait until the dead body stops
> >> stinking.
> >
> >Dead body?
>
> Yea. For some strange reason, I get a picture in my head of
> large body. But it has to be a mouse. One of these days, I'm
> going to figure out how the guy who lived here thought. He
> built a closet but put a false floor in it along one wall of
> the room. Underneath, there is probably a mouse retirement
> center that had been in business over the years the guy lived
> here. I don't want to tear it apart. At the moment, I'm
> using moth ball strewn generously. I balls strewn in the
> basement, and they appear to have been removed. Pesky rodents.
> If it isn't the User Device From Hell, it's the mobile flavor.
Ohh, dead Mickeey! We had one in an apartment we rented in the
'70s. Evidently it crawled up the sewer and into the bathroom sink
overflow, got stuck, and stunk. They called some plumbers out to
fix it; acid down the overflow.
>
> I've been spend some time these last few weeks trying to figure
> out how I'm able to estimate the size of the body from just the
> smell. Intensity?
Time? Don't know any calibration factor though.
> >> >I'm "redecorating" the entire house too, in preparation to split.
> >>
> >> I don't know how you can manage that. I suspect whoever gets my
> >> house will just raze it and build something that isn't holey.
> >
> >I tore the carpet up from the second bedroom yesterday. Today is
> >the upstairs hallway and stairs. Then I have some repairs to do to
> >the railings. Then stain, polyurethane, and paint the walls. The
> >master bedroom carpet gets torn out next week and then new
> >carpeting in the upstairs. Two weeks later the entire downstairs
> >gets recarpeted (gotta tear all that out and repaint inbetween).
>
> Why are you carpeting? I never understood that because I assume
> that the first thing the new female does is redecorate.
Yes, and it's the last thing a male does. ;-) I mentioned before
that we're bailing out of NE (taxes). The carpet is 20YO (original
contractor's special) and in pretty poor condition, even though we
don't wear shoes in the house. Instead of offering a "carpet
allowance" in the price, I decided to just do it. It makes
painting much easier too.
> >> Fieldstone foundations suck.
> >
> >I'd never have one. Mine is 8" concrete. Even then I need to run a
> >dehumidifier all summer.
>
> The problem with fieldstone is that the mortar doesn't last.
If you have mortar. Some around here don't, at least didn't. No
thanks!
--
Keith
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