Flinging Rants To See If They'll Stick

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12 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

However, for those interested, the colors are as follows, Sherwin-Williams man:

 -- Body, see man:  SW Many1Many2, Coastal Plain man

 -- Trim, see man:   SW ManyManyMany0, Courtyard man

The neighbors will be, uh, green with envy, hee hee hee man.

Those are nice colors!  Does your home have brick on it, too?  

 

I have a red bricked house with a pale, vanilla'ish trim.  I used to despise the red brick and the trim color.  But, we got a new roof and then changed the windows and the exterior doors and now I quite like the look.  The new windows and doors really modernized it.  The old ones were aluminum frames with colonial style gridded/grilled, single pane, sugar glass.  There are also some half round windows that had those grilles as well (I think they look like half wagon wheels).  They were all replaced with double pane, gas insulated windows.  The front door was an old wood, 4 lite with a half round window but we changed it to a solid door with a long, vertical window (mid century style).  It lets in more light though the frosted window, which is nice.  It was an investment, but we see the returns in energy savings, a cleaner house (less dust) and it was amazing how much quieter it is with the newer windows.  

 

12 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

We found some weird stuff, when the dickens was THIS ever used, and for what man.

That's all that crazy ES stuff you buy...

 

12 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

All others were curbsided in the garbage bin, curbside we man.

We hope that they'll dump out without coming open, otherwise paint inside of garbage bin man.

They're old enough that we suspect glued-on lids, looked solid to us man.

We're not allowed to put wet paint cans into the trash.  You either have to take the lids off and let them dry up or take them to the county recycle center.  They will have a free drop off day for paint coming up soon.  They always do one in the spring and in the fall. Otherwise, it's a small fee.  

 

We were pleasantly surprised a couple of weekends ago because we took the dead microwave to the recycle center and they didn't charge us a recycling fee.  Lowes, HD and WorstBuy were all wanting $50 to take it.  We will still take advantage of WorstBuy's free electronics recycling.  We have some old Apple routers and an old Chromebook that need to go and they'll take up to 4 pieces per day.  I'd prefer that the high school do a recycling event (I think marching band usually does one as a fundraiser) but they didn't do it last year.  The school is arguably closer, more convenient and takes it all at once.