So that’s where socks go to hide

The strange sound started in our LG dryer more than a week ago. It whined. It whirred. It sounded, well, broken. After shutting it off — oh, I am that smart, at least — I poked around the back of the stack, and noticed that the metal part that attached the exhaust hose to the…

A new furnace enters my life in a flash

And so we start our first morning in the era I shall call Furnace II here in our city neighborhood house in Syracuse, N.Y. Thank you for a hard-working life, No.1. You fell a half-year short of a full decade of warming me and my dear wife Karen. I can sincerely say that I will…