Lint

Ahh, the joys of old-house ownership! The latest recently-discovered problem with our old house?

Lint.

It seems that the folks who started restoring our 1911 house neglected to run the dryer vent to the outside of the house. Instead, I found a length of flexible tubing hanging in the crawlspace, with a big pile of dryer lint under it!

This would not be a big issue, except for the fact that dryer lint is quite flammable. In fact, when my boys were in Cub Scouts, our den leader had the boys bring Ziploc bags of dryer lint to the Webelos Wild campout, because it makes such good tinder for starting fires!

So, tonight, I crawled around the crawlspace (thus the name?) and collected big wads of dryer lint. Fairly soon, I'll need to install some vent piping to the outside of the house.

You know, like normal houses have. :)

Updates

Yesterday's post was kinda heavy, so today it's just a couple random updates.

Kids update:

Brandon is down in Columbia at the USC-Kentucky game. Bummer that it's raining, but it should be a good game anyway. Not that I'm any kind of sports expert, or anything... Tomorrow, hopefully, Brandon and Megan will sign the contract on the house Brandon grew up in. Pretty cool how God has made it available at this time, and how Brandon was interested in the house.

Saw Zach and Sarah last night for the first time in a while. It was good just to sit around, chat, and laugh. Zach is playing in an ultimate tourney down in Columbia this weekend -- go NGU! Ha.

House restoration update:

Last Saturday, I re-screened the original screen doors for our house and hung them. It was nice to get a cool natural breeze going through this old house, for the first time since we've been here! It's going to be GREAT when the weather finally cools off a bit. LOVE autumn. Anyhow, this Saturday, I have to finish trimming out the screen doors. Unlike most screen doors, these don't use the spline-in-channel method. In our case, it's the staple-screen-to-door method like in the old days. Looks more authentic, but kind of a pain to stretch the screen evenly. But it's worth it, it looks right for the house. Don't you just love the sound of an old wooden screen door slamming?

God is good - Rupert is curled up next to me, The Office comes on in about 20 minutes, and there is a piece of Key Lime pie with my name on it in the fridge. We are blessed.