Flower Bed

In May, I planted over 100 flowers in the flower beds. Later, I went out of town for five weeks. I wasn't too worried about the flowers because they are irrigated.

When I returned home I found the flowers had been over taken by weeds worse than any other year!

I cleaned the weeds out and unfortunately, there isn't much left.

Part of the problem is that some of the flowers were purchased at Walmart late in the season, and those flowers didn't survive. Flowers from a local green house did better, however, the weeds took a hard toll.

It is disappointing to see the poor results of all of the expense and work. 

Change Furnace Filter

Home ownership comes with a lot of responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to change your furnace filters! A good furnace filter can cut down on the amount of dirt and dust coming out of your forced air furnace, which will help to keep you and your family healthy.

If you get quality filters, you'll only have to change the filter four times per year: before heating season, before cooling season, and during each season. If you get cheap filters? Plan to change them every month.

First thing I do is put today's date onto the new filter.

Remove the old filter, paying attention to the direction of the air flow.

Then insert the new filter in the correct air flow orientation.

That's it!

New Mail Box

Every winter the snow plows like to take target practice on my mail box. As a result, my mail box is a horrible rusted and dented broken mess. It is so bad that the post office left me a letter suggesting I consider getting a new one.

A new one? What for? The snow plow if just going to knock it down again this winter!

I decided to comply. Today I put up the new mail box.

Clean the Grill!

The joys of the summer cook out. Hot dogs, burgers, grilled corn, and everything! I love cooking out doors. And chances are? You do too.

However, if you neglect your grill's grease trap, your cook out could end in a fireball as a grease fire ungulfs the grill. So, let's make sure we all regularly clean the grill.

My grill has a grease trap drain that you can see from th grill top.

Connected to the bottom of the drain is the grease trap. It sometimes looks like a soup can, but mine is a quare metal pan.

My model has a removable grease drain too.

I clean both and then hit them with the garden hose.

It takes about ten minutes and then they are as good as new.