My Oven Exploded

*Dramatization, no large explosion took place

The igniter on my oven blew, and it requires a $350 repair. Luckily, I have $200 in savings, but I'm scrambling to put together the rest so! I'm doing a little

DOODLES FOR DONATIONS DRIVE

Wherein you can leave a tip of any size through my Ko-Fi with a one or two-word prompt (eg. 'Sleepy kitty' or 'big cupcake' or 'butts!') And I will do a little thank you doodle like the above! Note: style may vary

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This is not typically something I do, but I need help and at this point I'm out of options.

My partner, @slightlypsychic passed away fairly suddenly back in January. I've inherited his condo and it needs a lot of work. The most important and immediate work, however, is getting some electrical work done. Including replacing the electrical panel for the unit.

This link is to my gofundme, which has a breakdown in cost/quotes and a little bit more explanation of what needs done.

If anyone that sees this could help me out by getting the word and link out there I would be so appreciative.

Good morn - YIKES!

My first chore this morning was making complicated, delicious breakfast sandwiches for my son, husband, and myself. A laudable and nutritious goal, but I was hindered by discovering the veggie drawer had a layer of Slime™ in the bottom.

I pulled out all the unslimed packages (fortunately the tomatoes I needed for the sandwiches were unharmed!) and set the whole drawer aside to be cleaned later.

Later actually happened, unfortunately. The culprit turned out to be half a forgotten cucumber, which almost completely dissolved. As a farmer and parent, I have a pretty high tolerance for grossness. This was pretty bad, though. After rather a lot of wiping, rinsing, spraying, and re-wiping, the veggie drawer was once again fit to contain food. I pulled the (blameless, unsullied) fruit drawer out and cleaned underneath both of them.

Not the end of the world, certainly, but. Yeeeeegh. Not a great way to start the day.

Next project will be restoring water to my late father's house. The pump in the wellhouse had an Issue last week. My husband thinks he has the correct replacement part, and if all goes well he'll call me shortly and I can test the water inside the house while he scrutinizes the electrical switch in the wellhouse, a hundred yards away. If that doesn't fix it, we will need more expensive and complicated repairs to the pump itself. *sigh*

My new book I pre-ordered came this week, and it's the cutest!

I am not a renter, and Mr Eagle can fix literally anything, but I still absolutely bought it. I never want to stop learning, and I adore her compassionate approach to teaching on her social media.

I hope you get a chance to learn something new today too!

if I could recommend two YouTubers channels to anyone they would be:

- Mercury Stardust (aka The Trans Handy Ma'am)

- Dad, how do I?

Mercury's more active on Instagram and TikTok but she's a handy ma'am who posts how-to's on home repair AND she has a renters-friendly book on home repairs

Dad, how do I? Posts a little of everything in terms of teaching people how to do things (most of it typical dad things, he has playlists for car repair, fishing, baking, cooking, and other misc things)

Spackling paste

Time to do maintenance on the castle gates.

The good news is, we found the leak.

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Tiny Tim is driving me up the wall so badly by loudly clawing at the metal grate on the laundry room door that I'm seriously considering dropping a big chunk of my upcoming tax return on one of these

Even if he COULD get his claws in between these slats (and the way they're shaped, I doubt it) the wooden door wouldn't make nearly as much noise being jostled as the hollow door we have now and its screwed-on metal vents

Cats cost money in unexpected ways

Are you double-crossed by glues that "dry loose"?

Pray for us, Tumblr. Today my wife and I are going to go rent a large and intimidating device from the hardware store to try to blow fire-retardant recycled paper insulation into the walls of our dining room. APPARENTLY the dining room used to be like a 3 season porch and it is not insulated. We’ve been just sort of sealing it off all winter, paying outrageous heating bills. I though we’d have to wait till summer to both replace the very damaged siding and put in new insulation but it turns out we can blow it in from the inside so we’re trying that. We still have a lot of cold weather ahead of us in MN. (It’s a comparatively balmy 22F right now) so it’s still well worth it to get it done this winter.

This is like a 1 hour job for ppl who know what they’re doing. But we are. Not that. And the “advice” I got from the one neighbor whose done this before consisted mainly of pitying laughter. So we’ll see how this goes! I’ll let you know.

Update: forgot the Menards is for MANY MEN and PROFESSIONALS and they only rent a 300 lb industrial machine for reason. Imagine lugging this up to your attic. Bad boy is proper steel.

We will not be deterred. I am determined to be one of those middle aged queers who does a bunch of DIY projects to their very old house. On to the next hardware store!

So to make a long story short I'm in debilitating debt and need to cover the cost of removal and mold remediation that needs to be done in my bedroom, which is estimated to run me $3, 150.55. This estimate does not include putting the wall back in, so I know I'll have another large expense to save up for once its done, but as long as my land lords don't pitch a fit about it I'll find a way to survive without part of my wall!

I need to have 50% minimum for the work to be done and then I'll owe them 50% after the work is done, I'm doing my best to earn money and find help from my community but i'm mentally and physically disabled and any money I do earn already goes to paying down my credit card debt and living expenses.

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Censored to remove my full legal name and the contractors as well at my location and the companys name.

Insulate

   QUITE a while ago, last fall, I was up in the attic and noticed light where there shouldn’t have been light. It turned out that there was a gap where the wall and the ceiling of the bathroom below met. We had renovated the bathroom, but (as with so many other projects) the final piece of moulding was never put up. Since the attic isn’t heated, that meant that we were losing a steady draft of warm air from the bathroom. I found strip insulation in amongst the tools and home-repair Stuff in the furnace room and.

   Yeah. So, TODAY, end of March, I got the step ladder and pushed the insulation up into that gap. It’s a very good fit, and my house stepladder is a stable, easy-to-use delight. I’m working on self-compassion, and late truly IS better than never. It will help out next winter, and all the winters after.

   Then I went outside to take a walk in the woods. For the agonies.

I have an appointment with a lawyer this afternoon, for Estate bullshit Stuff and then I will deliver the finished painting.

she snatched her man, her phone & her baby