Richard Trethewey American Plumber

I desperately need Richard to come to Charleston and lay some pipe down in my house.

And by "lay some pipe down", I mean fucking.

Smiles all round.

web weaving for my oc, Warden

Nathaniel Orion G.K. / Crush, Richard Siken / Dazzled Precise, Anna de Noailles tr. Norman R. Shapiro / Wishbone, Richard Siken / Overflowing With Empty, Judas H. / Waterborne, Natasha Trethewey / The Night There, Mahmoud Darwish / Elm, Sylvia Plath / Amal El-Mothar / The Third Hour of The Night, Frank Bidart / Hamlet, Shakespeare / The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath / Daddy, Ramesy / Another Road in The Road, Mahmoud Darwish / @pikslasrce / Ariel, Aneleh / Tragedy, Sanna Wani / Nicola Samori / Underbelly, Nicole Homer / Beric Dondarrion

Shauna Shipman (+ Jackie) | miscellaneous character study

Lucy Dacus, Partner In Crime

Sufjan Stevens, Death With Dignity

Julien Baker, Appointments

Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems; "Songs in Flight"

Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

Taylor Swift, Ivy

Taylor Swift, The 1

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Christina Marie Brown, Ghost

Maggie Rogers & Del Water Gap, New Song

The Cranberries, Animal Instinct

Erica Jong, “Where It Begins,” Fruits & Vegetables: Poems By Erica Jong

Richard Siken, Editors Page: The Long and the Short of It

Lucy Dacus, Please Stay

Etel Adnan, Friday, March 25th at 4pm

Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts

not quite an ask, but - rec me some poetry!! ❤️

omg you !!!! you asked the ultimate keep-me-up-all-night-thinking question why would you do this. why. i love you so much.

so i guess i should skip (?) probably (?) the ppl that tumblr already seems to be deeply familiar with e.g. richard siken, ocean vuong, franny choi, hanif abdurraqib, ada limon all coming to mind here, though i def love sooo much of what i've read by them & they deserve their dues!

and then idk if i should also skip (?) maybe (?) some of the really obvious super-famous suspects like sylvia plath, anne sexton, t.s. eliot, e.e. cummings, w.b. yeats, frank o'hara, uh. whose poetry i also love. but like? idk probably these are not deep cuts either but i am extremely fond of them so?

mmm okay so that leaves the small intersection of like .... poetry i've actually read (x) poets i don't see floating around tumblr all the time anyway (x) poets still alive or only fairly recently dead and thus not as stupidly famous as shakespeare or neruda?? (spoiler they're still very famous as far as poets are concerned i'm not like. that deep.)

so anyway i think that little list of poets might include: jericho brown (just finally read the tradition, absolutely gorgeous), natasha trethewey, edward hirsch, louise gluck, dianne seuss (recently read frank: sonnets - lovely!), tracy k smith, marie howe, sharon olds, eavan boland, seamus heaney. oh deep cut, i just discovered a young poet named marcus scott williams with some cool stuff! emily skaja and kathryn merwin might be younger/lesser known/deeper cuts too? gosh i know there are so many deserving others and also cool lesser known poets i'm not listing but my mind is like. yknow. whoooooosh.

oh also for easier reading etc here are some links to a few beloved poems by ppl from all these various lists in no logical order whatsoever:

"dear dr. frankenstein" by jericho brown

"ave maria" by frank o'hara (does not get enough love here on tumblr?? all i ever see is "having a coke with you" which don't get me wrong is so so lovely but why do i never see this one on the dash?? my absolute o'hara fave)

"[intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me]" by diane seuss

"white lies" by natasha trethewey

"for the sleepwalkers" by edward hirsch

"death, the last visit" by marie howe

"that the science of cartography is limited" by eavan boland (some of y'all will def recognize this uh !! i know !! for reasons!)

"since feeling is first" by e.e. cummings

"perihelion: a history of touch" by franny choi

"digging" by seamus heaney

"young" by anne sexton

<3

Whenever you post about Richard Trethewey, I get rock hard. He holds a top spot on my fuck list since high school. He's so hot. Reminds me of one of my shop teachers growing up who would wear tank tops and short shorts in the summer.

He’s definitely tops my list of American daddies with national visibility. He’s only gotten hotter, too. The size of his belly, the way he keeps his hair, the size of his arms and hands and fingers, his voice. He’s in his fucking prime.

Das übliche Problem, mit dem Hausbesitzer konfrontiert sind, ist der Versuch, eine Waschbecken-Befestigungsmutter zu entfernen, die gefrorene Feststoffe enthält. Dies kann durch eine Ansammlung von Alkohol oder Korrosion verursacht werden, obwohl es ein paar Tricks gibt, die einem helfen können, diese hartnäckige Nuss zu befreien. Richard Trethewey, Sanitärfachmann aus dem alten Haus, erläutert diese Tricks in einem hilfreichen Artikel. Stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie den richtigen Schraubenschlüssel verwenden können, wenn Sie diese Operation durchführen.

Hammer verwenden

Das erste, woran man denken sollte, ist normalerweise, dass beim Entfernen einer Wasserfilter-Befestigungsmutter ein effektiver Blickwinkel erforderlich ist. Ein Hammer ist zusätzlich nützlich. Mit dem Schlammhammer können Sie die jeweilige Mutter herausdrücken. Stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie den richtigen Winkel verwenden, da Sie sonst riskieren, die Nuss zu zertrümmern und fallen zu lassen. Stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie zuerst den Wasserhahnbefestigungsfanatiker reinigen, da dieser möglicherweise mineralische Rückstände enthält.

Entfernen Sie als nächstes praktisch alle verhedderten Gegenstände unter der Spüle. Oft ist die jeweilige Befestigungsmutter definitiv zu fest, um sie zu entfernen, und dies kann dazu führen, dass Wasser austritt. Wenn Sie die Befestigungsmutter des Wasserhahns nicht erreichen, möchten Sie vielleicht eine Art Beckenschlüssel verwenden. Diese Art von Werkzeug wurde speziell entwickelt, um schwer zugängliche Spülenbefestigungen zu entfernen und zu installieren.

Bevor Sie den Enthusiasten wegnehmen, müssen Sie die Anschlüsse des Auslaufs und des Versorgungsschlauchs entfernen. Sobald dies erledigt ist, kann eine Person dann den Auslauf und die küchenarmatur edelstahl Körper von unten. Sie müssen auch den Silberring entfernen. Entfernen Sie anschließend mit einer Kanal-Riesenzange die jeweilige Befestigungsmutter, die vom Auslauf kommt.

Verwenden Sie hohe Temperaturen

Um normalerweise die Befestigungsmutter eines Wasserhahns zu lösen, stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie die Wasserversorgung abgestellt haben, um das Waschbecken öffnen zu können. Eine Person sollte auch einen Eimer zur Hand haben, um diese besondere zu sammeln. Bei hartnäckigen Wasserhähnen können Sie außerdem Hitze verwenden, um sie zu lösen. Typischerweise kann die Hitze das Aufbrechen der Kalziummineralbindungen unterstützen, die sie überall fest halten.

Sollten Sie die Kunststoffmutter nicht durch den Wasserhahn lösen können, sollten Sie einen Beckenschlüssel verwenden. Dieses spezielle Werkzeug ist unglaublich wertvoll, um die verklemmte oder gerissene Kunststoffmutter zu entfernen. Typischerweise muss der Klauenkopf des Schraubenschlüssels in die Kerben der Montagekerbe gepresst werden. Dann müssen Sie die T-Stange mit einer Seite greifen und normalerweise den Schraubenschlüsselkörper auf der anderen Seite halten. Nun, dann sollten Sie es nach links umwandeln, um die Mutter zu entfernen.

Eine andere Methode, mit der Sie die Nuss lösen können, ist das Erhitzen mit einem Haartrockner. Diese Art von Methode wird den Kunststoff zusätzlich lockern, damit man ihn verformen kann. Sobald dieser spezielle Schritt abgeschlossen ist, können Sie jetzt mit der Arbeit mit dem Schraubenschlüssel beginnen. Abhängig von der Größe der Mutter muss eine Person möglicherweise mehr bohren als an einer Stelle, um sie zu lösen.

Schrauben Sie normalerweise den Wasserhahnmontage-Enthusiasten ab

Sobald Sie die Erdnüsse entfernt haben, können Sie die Befestigungsmutter des Wasserfilters am Wasserhahn abschrauben. Sie benötigen einen Beckenschlüssel oder sogar einen anderen Schraubenschlüssel, der in enge Räume reichen kann. Wenn jemand kein Beckenschlüsselwerkzeug verwendet, können Sie einen verstellbaren Schraubenschlüssel bestellen. Dieser Schraubenschlüssel macht es viel einfacher, unkooperative Kreuzschlitzschrauben zu lösen.

#cultivateawe : Gratitude, Awe. Thank you so much @wxxirochester for the amazing autographed photo of the stars of @thisoldhouse, beautifully framed by @frameworksofrochester! They all signed it, unbelievable! Autographs, L. to R.: Richard Trethewey @thisoldplumber Kevin O’Connor @kevinoconnortoh Norm Abram (retired from the show after 43 years 5/19/22) Roger Cook @rogercooktoh Tom Silva @tomsilvatoh Thank you all! #repost • @wxxirochester Congratulations @sonolucent, the winner of the autographed frame from the ' This Old House' Giveaway contest! Please DM us to claim your prize. We drew the winner randomly from the thousands of entries we received. Thank you to everyone who participated in this giveaway. We appreciate your support. Don’t worry if you didn’t win. We’ll be running another contest soon, so keep your eyes on our profile for the news. (at Rochester, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj9t98UOt3n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A Biased View of 21 Air Conditioner Maintenance and Home Cooling Tips

Like any kind of mechanical body, air hair conditioners require a little care to work smoothly. The very most typical air conditioner devices, in many areas of community, are sky conditioning and heater devices. The most basic air hair conditioner is one that has actually no air filter set up. The largest issue with sky conditioners is that after a few hrs, it's not totally secured. The upcoming ideal factor is a thermostat which can easily be switched on after a although, triggering an also higher increase in temperature.

Luckily, AC servicing includes several activities you can easily handle on your very own. For instance, consider working on a website that operates on Windows and Mac OS X. The web function will definitely look for your Web Application ID to load once the JavaScript code has been accomplished and are going to deliver a technique to check out the URL that will certainly be made use of for verification. The internet function and its client can be accessed when the web application has been upgraded. What Upkeep Performs an Air Conditioner Need? The Air Conditioner is a one-of-a-kind product being created under the guidance of distinguished architect and professional D. R. Gaskin. Its function is to give us an sky hair conditioner which we can easily utilize for living and job. It includes integrated venting units that give optimal airflow to our physical body, resulting in a better air movement capability for a lot of lorries. The sky hair conditioner is likewise made to be straightforward and to remain water immune. We asked This Old House plumbing and heating system specialist Richard Trethewey to share his air conditioner maintenance pointers for central air and home window systems. The brand new design comes loaded with function such as brand new air conditioning systems and new vents to aid eliminate leakages in trendy properties and bathrooms. Degrades your sky travel There's a little bit of an air-conditioning craze out certainly there for folks appearing for a brand new house. Change Your Filters Unclean filters kill your AC's efficiency, therefore put in a brand-new one every month in the course of the cooling down period for central and window units (or clean up them if you've got the cleanable kind). You possess to make use of a compressor for your converter (or merely your motor). Well-maintained air when you're not utilizing your converter. The same goes for filters! Only get free of the noise filters. What you need to have: A compressor along with a vacuum pump. Look for the filter's minimal effectiveness file value, or MERV, which ranges from 1 to 12 for home AC systems; the much higher the number, the better purification it gives (and the additional energy required to take air via it, therefore balance air-quality concerns along with energy price). You could have a 30/7 filter at all price, which indicates that at some factor you're likely to come up along with a brand-new set of tools for the project that's just worth one device. Fix AC Leaks Ductworks can shed up to 30 per-cent of airflow via leaks, and home window AC devices are infamously challenging to close appropriately. A solitary element will definitely consistently damage, while numerous tiny parts can likewise damage various other systems. While some devices last as long as 10 years, for a lot of individuals, a year is a far longer time. That mentioned, it's worth appearing at various other options in order to find out your AC system has what your device needs. Discover cracks making use of the aged "smoke trick.". Currently you can see them in realtime. A married couple of months ago, I utilized a simple smogginess cover-up I established using an easy-to-use internet app that uses "a couple of scripts," therefore I was able to hide a couple of keys from the world so that no one around me would discover them. The very most significant secret I found out along the technique was to stay away from acquiring smog to feel also poor. For home window devices, illuminate a stick of aroma and keep it where the device and the home window framework fulfill; for core AC, hold the stick near duct relationships. Put the stick in the air, and press it to trigger the compressor. When the converter is in operation, the result of the compressor is a little bit more stable, but will certainly minimize the overall outcome current very gradually. Also the compressor have to not generate noise as the ground is quite chilly. If the smoke blows around, you've acquired leakage. If you go in that instructions, what you observe is smoke going right into your smoke bag. Q: What kind of smoke is in your smoke bag? A: A massive selection, so there is smoke happening from the inside. There are a lot of flavors, some of them scent like weed. Some scent a little more like cigarettes. This Website could receive one that sample different, and is actually smoked in various spot. For ductwork, use aluminum foil tape to close little gaps and ductwork mastic for much larger ones; for window AC units, things foam between the unit and the window framework, wrapping as required. Making use of a 3mm item of plywood, add a little quantity of vinyl and seal the hole all together in one-half with air duct tape. You can easily either do alter the tape or put a heavy-duty package of ductwork tape over it, and close the hole before using a sealer. Make use of a Timer There's no requirement to blow up the AC at complete tilt while you're at work. Only turn your scalp up to the leave of absence. Push your lesser left hand to tip your scalp in the instructions you really want. The analog stick merely carries out its work. Press it up to relocate or to cease the computer system. If you turn the scalp you possess to press down to revolve the personal computer. For a higher powered computer system attempt using the "S" switch. For central units, mount a programmable temperature that permits you specified higher heat levels when you're gone and cooler temperatures when you're home. The new intelligent regulator permits you keep track of opportunity and temperature level for your property (and for even more on clever temperature updates at KETT). For even more particulars concerning the temperature and KETT regulator versions, click on the pictures at the end of this webpage.

Michael Piazza This Old House

When This Old House magazine decided to retool and redesign their look and feel, they asked Michael Piazza to photograph the full cast of This Old House at their headquarters in Connecticut on a Covid-19 safe production. Michael spent the day with the host of the popular This Old House show, Kevin O’Connor; Tom Silva and Norm Abram, contractors; landscape expert Jenn Nawada; plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey; carpenter Nathan Hilbert; and the rest of the show’s cast. Michael’s portraits of the team are used on a special fold out cover, throughout the new Spring 2021 issue of This Old House magazine, and across the show’s collateral. 

From left to right: Richard Trethewey, Jenn Nawada, Kevin O’Connor, Tom Silva, Nathan Gilbert, Jenn Largesse, Mauro Henrique, Jeff Sweenor, Heath Eastman, Charlie Silva, Ross Trethewey, Mark McCullough, Chris Ermides

See the issue on newsstands now and more of Michael Piazza’s editorial and portrait photography online.

Richard Trethewey American Plumber

Damn he's hot. I just wanna pull his pants down and get to work on that cock of his.

A few months ago I started randomly watching clips of This Old House on YouTube. I now hold the opinion that Boston-area plumber and HVAC contractor Richard Trethewey is most fun to watch of the tradesman they have on the show, and he seems like he really knows his stuff. If I met the guy randomly on the street or at a cocktail party or something I’d shake his hand and tell him I like his work on the show. If I needed some plumbing or HVAC work done in the Boston area I’d consider his firm.

This Old House magazine celebrates 40 years of This Old House TV with five different covers.

Cover #3: This Old House, September/October 2019. Richard Trethewey photographed in 2004 by Keller + Keller.

Buy all five collectible covers here.

5 covers from This Old House magazine to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the TOH TV show.

All photos by Keller + Keller except Tom Silva by David Carmack.

Creative director: Robert Newman, art director: Jamie Dannecker, photo director: Denise Sfraga, editor in chief: Susan Wyland.

favorite poetry read in 2020

I read 159 books this year, and a good portion of them were contemporary poetry collections, so I decided to share a list of my favorites in case anyone is looking for recommendations. Here they are:

5/5 stars:

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Whereas by Layli Long Soldier

Crush by Richard Siken

4/5 stars:

Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith

Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Holy Moly Carry Me by Erika Meitner

Oculus by Sally Wen Mao

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet

This Way to the Sugar by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Ledger by Susan Wheeler

Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Mayakovsky's Revolver by Matthew Dickman

A Fortune for your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

I Know Your Kind by William Brewer

Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal

The Republic of Poetry by Martin Espada

A Cruelty Special to Our Species by Emily Jungmin Yoon

Sciptorium by Melissa Range

Bone Map by Sara Eliza Johnson

Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs

Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora

Hum by Jamaal May

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik

In a Time of Violence by Eavan Boland

Elegy for a Broken Machine by Patrick Phillips

Mural by Mahmoud Darwish

The Veiled Suite by Agha Shahid Ali

The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay

Erosion by Jorie Graham

Can you please write home quotes? Or suggest some? My whole life feels like I have been searching for a home, to call it mine.

Her tears tell the story of what she knows. That the past, present, and future are just one thing. That there’s nowhere to go from here. Home is home is home.

 — Carol Rifka Brunt , Tell the Wolves I’m Home

How to return to the smallness, the imperfection, which is home?

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

I have always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I have worked hard at being the hero of my own life, but every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn’t know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.

— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

— Richard Georges, from “Dead Reckoning,” 

— Natasha Trethewey, from “Theories of Time and Space”

(…) when I am stranded at a corner of a street, unable to reach home, unable to reach anyone—I feel this wave of choking anguish: loneliness, loneliness, loneliness.

— Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947

I’ve been trying to go home my whole life—

— Chelsea Dingman, from “Psychogeography,” published in The Los Angeles Review

— Maya Angelou,  from “Alone”

In best times, home can be everywhere. In harder times, nowhere.

— Naomi Shihab Nye, in an Interview

— Mary Oliver, from “Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches”, West Wind

— Anne Sexton, from “A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston”, The Complete Poems