Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
7 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I had to go today and do some work on a house for a realtor. The house is up for sale and some upgrades were needed. For the most part, everything was typical: install GFCIs in the kitchen and laundry room, replace some loose receptacles, put new wea...
5 May 2020 2 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I've got family that lives around Savannah, Georgia, in the Southeast US. When I was a kid we'd go to see them quite often. It was about a three hour trip so we would make a weekend of it. The family we most often stayed with lived outside Richmond H...
4 May 2020 2 minute read 3 comments uthus2000
Gammy and I were sitting here a couple of nights ago chatting about something which I do not recall.There was an '80s playlist going on in the background. Seemingly out of the blue, ominous music poured out of the bluetooth speaker. Du-duh, du-duh, d...
28 Apr 2020 2 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I think beekeepers are more tuned in to certain sounds and smells than most folks. I know that I can hear bees in tops of trees when most people wouldn't. It's not that they can't hear the bees - they're just not attuned to them. And I've found a cou...
25 Apr 2020 2 minute read 7 comments uthus2000
I never know where side work is going to come from. I'm really not that interested in doing much of it anyway. I'm not rolling in cash or anything like that. I've been blessed and have been able to start laying some side for trying times. A couple o...
18 Apr 2020 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000
As an electrician, There are things that I definitely don't want to see. These are some photos that I took just this week. I was replacing a dimmer when I found this one. The house has aluminum wiring. Aluminum just does not hold up to heat and curre...
13 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I finally got my mask from Amazon last week and I'm ready to go. There are a couple of down sides to it: I can't wear my glasses and have to focus through one eye or the other; people in small towns look at me like I'm an idiot. My mask is a lot bet...
8 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I'm an electrician and work mostly in St Louis or one of the surrounding suburbs. Today I was working near Kings Highway and I-44. The street was packed with cars because of the work stoppage. The street was also crawling with bikes, strollers, jog...
5 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
A few days ago I wrote about Bullion, the old man that lives on our younger daughter's homestead.The photo above is not Bullion. It's one that I found on TheChive a few years ago when I was doing jigsaw puzzles on my computer. It is, however, what I...
4 Apr 2020 1 minute read 3 comments uthus2000
My son-in-law sent me a picture of the girls playing in the creek. (The second girl is just in front of and to the left of the one in the striped shirt.) He uses a flip phone so pixel count and resolution are horrible. I decided to process the pic t...
