http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog Home improvement with an eye toward sustainability Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:05:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We bought this house.  Unbeknownst to us, we got much more than we bargained for, in the bad department.  It was a fixer upper, that much we knew.  In 2004, the home inspection business was not regulated in NY state.  We hired a "home inspector" on the recommendation of the ... http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/six-years-ago/ About once a year the bathtub drain gets a little slow.  If I ignore this problem, unfortunately it does not seem to go away, it only gets worse.  We end up taking shower baths, which is really annoying, at least to me.  So, once a year I venture into the ... http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/unclogging-a-bathtub-drain/ Last year was supposed to be the year that I traded that old Jeep in for something new.  After all, I have been driving this thing for almost 10 years, it has over 175,000 miles on it.  Ah well, best laid plans, etc, etc. [caption id="attachment_899" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="1997 Jeep Cherokee ... http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/fixing-up-my-1997-jeep-cherokee/