http://www.anybodycandoanything.com/2015/02/downton-abbey-recap-two-truths-and-lie.
And just because I may not get a post done in time, here's the link for Episode SIX:
http://www.anybodycandoanything.com/2015/02/downton-abbey-recap-dingo-stole-my-baby.html
AND because I'm too busy working on these darn recaps to write a blog post, for crying out loud, here's the link for Episode SEVEN:http://www.anybodycandoanything.com/2015/02/downton-abbey-recap-ive-got-99-problems.html
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Where to begin? Do I just jump in and start writing about soup and paint and cats? Well, okay!
Last year my fourteen year old furnace was diagnosed with a terminal illness so I reluctantly surrendered the inheritance my dad left me, which I had hoped to save for my looming old age, to buy a reliable new one. I don't fully understand how an HVAC works, apparently, because I have always assumed it sucked in nice fresh breezy outside air through a filter, warmed it up or cooled it down per my command, and blew it out of the vents to keep me comfortable. I was all wrong. The gruesome truth is, it actually sucks crappy old oxygen-depleted air up through the return in the hall, makes it warmer or cooler, and sends it right back out into my house. No fresh air involved. How did I not know this?
The nice furnace checkup guy came and inspected everything and declared it to be in perfect order. Was the old unit so asthmatic that it couldn't inhale enough air to use twice? Has a decade's accumulation of dust finally reached critical mass? And in case you're wondering, I [try to] change the filter in the return once a month.
Except for that time I forgot…triple GROSS! |
Lillie was out of town this weekend and we couldn't get the finishing touches put on our DA recap, so I cleaned the daylights out of this house. Up high--down low--I dusted and vacuumed it all. My theory (probably not scientific, since my hypothesis may be full of holes) is that the less dust there is to suck back into the furnace, the less dust will come blowing back out of the vents. The dust stops here! I'll report back in a month.
…after one trip around the ceiling and door tops |
…and moving the hydrangea print (a gift) to the foyer wall, where it replaced the underwater painting by Lillie, which floated down the hall to her bathroom. Every other item on this wall is either thrifted, homemade, or passed down. The clock was a wedding present. (There are still a couple of those around here.) Pinterest, or just poor? You be the judge.
Here's how it looks now... |
This was the original layout. I guess there are a number of new things! Anyway, it's better now. |