House arrest
25Apr2006 Filed under: HomelyIt’s been a while since I’ve written anything about our house. This is because I have not been focusing much attention on it lately, and as our ever-growing list of home projects attests, that’s not necessarily a good thing. In order of freak-out-inducement:
1. Bathroom must be remodeled as it’s rotting from the inside out.
2. House and garage both need to be painted.
3. Side door needs to be fixed and/or replaced. It sticks.
4. Fish pond is ready for its spring cleaning! One fish remains. We call him Lucky.
5. First mow of the season, anyone? Oh wait! Somehow, the charger for the mower broke over the winter. We will be white trash with dandelion puffs until a replacement arrives.
6. Front door needs to be painted.
7. Someday, I’m painting my office ceiling white.
8. We have ants! Not the little sugar ants, but big huge black ones. Also, unlike the little sugar ants, they seem uninterested in food.
9. My spare closet threatens to eat me.
10. Needling concern: should we have bought a condo?
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Josh Santangelo
April 25th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
You’ve pretty much summed up why I have no interest in owning a proper house.
Jayme
April 26th, 2006 at 5:12 am
Yikes! Thanks for the reality check. I think I’ll bookmark this entry to refer to the next time I get an itch to buy my own place.
Rosie
April 26th, 2006 at 8:04 am
I’m with you on the white trash dandelion puffs (funny!)…..our yard is out of control !! Our neighbors look upon our yard with extreme agitation because those puffs don’t necessarily stay in one place!
Ivy
April 26th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Perhpas the ants have no interest in food bc they have a taste for human flesh.
When I was little and I used to draw pictures of hippies, they were always naked and didn’t cut their grass.
Ariel
April 26th, 2006 at 8:28 am
Ivy: HA! As near as I can tell, I’m still clothed. But now that we’ve started down the “broken lawmower” path, who knows what’s next!
judy
April 26th, 2006 at 11:53 am
they might be carpenter ants. we have had those before… they eat the HOUSE! like termites, yuck. i hope you get to see a queen sneak out… omg, they are huge. so gross!
daria
April 26th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
gilles wants to actually plant some of those dandelion puffs so that he can add the leaves to our salads. i’m serious!
Meghan
April 26th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Actually…even if they’re big ants, they might respond to some of the treatment plans that one uses for smaller ants. We had a quite large running path of big ants, and used Terro…and so far (KNOCKING LOUDLY ON WOOD), they haven’t returned….
Philos
April 27th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Should you have bought a condo? Well, if you enjoy gardening/yard work and like having a yard, then no. And if you expect to need the extra space of a house, particularly for having children (I don’t remember if you have a stated position either way on that), then no. Having said that, maybe a condo would’ve been less expensive for you, and maybe you could’ve found a place closer in to downtown Seattle - though it’s questionable whether there’re condos that are both less expensive and closer in.
Sara
May 16th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
If you want, you can buy my (soon-to-be) former apartment, which is being turned into a very expensive condo. I’m sad that my boy and I are getting kicked out.
We’d just signed another lease too. *sniff*