Author: Freddy

I recently got a new pet cat which I think is about eight months old and it is very shy. It’s been hiding under my sofa now for over a week and I never see it when I am awake. It must come out at night to eat and use the litter box because in […]

I began weight training when I was around 10 or 11 years old. I know it’s quite young but my dad was really into it then and my older brother so I had pressure on me at maybe eight years old to start pumping iron. I really didn’t get interested in it until I got […]

Grandma June never had a problem with style and class. We grew up pretty poor, and it was June who was my role model. She proved that it didn’t take money to have class, and to come across like a queen. Her clothes might have been simple, often hand-made, but they were colorful and clean […]

If you are just scanning down the page looking for something interesting, let me hit you with the long story short version – there wasa vicious family of raccoons in our air ducts, and it turned into a war between us. In general I like animals, although we don’t have any pets because my wife […]

My kid thought we had ghosts in the attic. I wish it was that simple! We moved into this remote farmhouse knowing that it was a fixer-upper, but we really didn’t know how much fixing was required. The place had been empty for years, so while it had not been damaged, it had not been […]

My girlfriend’s dad has become my best friend over the last few months. He and I never really got along before, and then we had a couple of crazy years, and somehow a friendship was forged. I think of him as my father-in-law already. During COVID he lost his job, and because of his age […]

Coming up with five thousand extra dollars is no small thing for a guy like me. This economy is tight as a drum, everyone knows that. The price of living is going up fast, the rate of pay is staying right where it is. It’s hard enough to make ends meet month-to-month, nonetheless saving up […]

I will admit that this is more house than I really needed. It was a great price, so even though it was a lot larger than I had planned for, I could not pass it up. What could the down side be for having too big of a house, right? We know how bad it […]

When I started this job, it was just a job. Maybe you remember how it is – young, needing work, not really caring what that work is as long as it pays! I had no idea what I was doing on my first day, but the senior tech in charge was a good dude. He […]

If you know the right person, you can get anything done. Once I had a major car issue late at night on a Sunday, just before a holiday, and I thought I was screwed. A friend of mine said he knew a guy who could help me. After a quick phone call, I went to […]