Morris Childs's (morrischilds) Blog

With the weather getting warmer, now is a good time to start checking you home for deferred maintenance issues. If it is warm enough in your area then it is time to make sure that your foundation vents are open. By opening your vents you will ensure good airflow in your crawl space. You should al...

My wife just got a new camera. It was not an expensive camera, but it takes great pictures and it is easy to operate. The camera was purchased from Costco. It was regularly priced at $279, but Costco had a coupon special and the sale price on the camera was $200.00. It is a Panasonic Lumix digita...

I am proud of my wife for reaching 100,000 points. She has worked hard to reach this level and I am proud of her This is a milestone for me on my journey down the road on Active Rain. I have just reached 100,000 points and this is my 310th post. At the first of this journey, it was hard to think ...

Have you ever bought something that you had to assemble to find that the pieces don't fit together? This is one of the most frustrating things that happens in our business. It is especially frustrating when the product is a special order product. Most of the time, we just package the product up ...

With the warm weather and all of the rain that we have had here in the upstate of South Carolina we are seeing the return of the fire ants. For those of you who live in areas where there are no fire ants, consider your self lucky. These little insects make a mess in your flower beds and when the...

In an earlier blog, we discussed building a simple firepit from creekrocks.  I failed to mention the fact that it cost us nothing to build, since we did not have to buy any materials. Infact, not only did it not cost us nothing - but it helped to clear the yard of some of the big rocks that were ...

Here is a story from our mountain house. Our house is in Western North Carolina, it is located between Bryson City and Fontana Village. We had to have the septic system replaced and many rocks were dug up out of the yard. Alot of the rocks were large. We needed to do something with them. Our moun...

Toby Cat is home again and right back in his usual spot. He is the couch cat once more. He was on the front porch when we got up this morning. We were so happy to see him. When he came in he went straight for the food bowl, lapped up the food and water, then went straight to his spot to take a na...

Easter is one of my favorite holidays and has been since I was a child. We always got chocolate Easter bunnies. I think that everyone starts with the ears and works their way down. Any way that you eat a chocolate bunny it is good. I also like to watch the movie the Ten Commandments at this time ...

WE FOUND OUR TOBY CAT After looking around the neighborhood and calling around to the neighbors, we have found our Toby Cat. He was, and still is hanging out at the neighbor's house. She always feeds him when we are not at home. She also has cats, but her cats stay inside and Toby Cat is an outdo...