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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Productivity

Mr. Big Food referred to it as "Prison-Striped Wallpaper." It is quite possibly the most hideous wallpaper with which I've ever lived.
I won't go so far as to say, "There ought to be a law"-- because there are far too many laws as it is-- but people who wallpaper sheet rock walls without first swiping some cheap paint or Kilz or something on the walls should be made to remove said wallpaper, and clean up after themselves.  

It's been a while since we stripped wallpaper. On all previous occasions the wallpaper papered plaster walls, so I was forced to poke around the world-wide wed to learn how to strip paper from paper. Vinegar + hot water in a spray bottle. Sounded reasonable in principle. ...  In practice, I thought Mr. Big Food was going to pull his hair out which would really have been something since I buzzed his head last weekend.  

Thanks to Brother Mike-- not the preacher at the local Baptist Church, my actual blood brother-- who turned me on to Downy Fabric Softener! Bro Mike is an expert in these things. A solution of Downy + hot water works very well, and is much more fragrant than vinegar + hot water. But here's the curious thing. Bro Mike cautioned several times, "Don't use too much Downy, it's toxic."

I don't use fabric softener in our laundry but I have to wonder about this. If Downy + hot water in a spray bottle is toxic how is Downy + hot water in a washing machine not? 

Shoot. There I go again being skeptical.

6 comments:

  1. Maybe the prior owners had a teenage son to whom they were trying to convey a message ...

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    1. You have no idea how close you are to the truth! I suspect, though, that the message wasn't received.

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  2. Maybe they only succeeded in conveying the opposite message..."There's no place like home..."!

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  3. Our first encounter with the younin's who used to live here was the day after we moved in. They were stealing firewood. They're older now. No tellin' what county jail they're sitting in! And their mother... State prison by this time, I've no doubt.

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  4. Maybe they figured you bought the _house_ and the _land_ , but _they_ cut up all that firewood...! And your sales contract didn't include their labor...!

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    1. One small problem with this theory. We bought the farm from the bank. It was a foreclosure. The firewood episode was the first time we had to call the sheriff.

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