15 minute fix

This blog is, in fact, to chronicle my household DIY projects but, I've been rather busy lately finishing up some more craft-oriented things : my first quilt ( a birthday present for BFF, due in a little over a week), a sweater for my grandmom's birthday (due in about two weeks)  and I'm just about finished with a dress I need to wear to an event this coming saturday evening. So, while I may be slacking on the household DIY, I'm definitely not slacking!
 That said, I did feel like I should get a move on with these household DIY's so, today, I started with a really easy one.

This chair lost the pegs that hold it together sometime during our move last year. It has, since then, been sitting in my bedroom looking like this. I did, at one point, buy some dowel pegs at the hardware store. They worked for a while but were both too short and too narrow to be secure and last week DH plopped down in the chair and landed on the floor. Tired of replacing the dowel pegs every time someone bumped into the chair I decided to really fix it.

these are the dowel pegs I originally used. I measured two of them together to get the proper length (roughly).

I took my dowel pegs to the hardware store and purchased a dowel rod just a tiny bit bigger in diameter than the pegs. Then,  marked four sections at 3.5" each.....

Sawed them apart with my handy (but cumbersome) hand saw.....

inserted pegs in appropriate holes and.......

TA-DA!! Finished. It took all of fifteen minutes to fix a chair that's been sitting around broken for a year. This is definitely a case of "anticipation" being much worse than the actual thing being anticipated.

Pretty boring DIY project, I admit, but hey, stick around. It's bound to get more exciting when power tools are involved.

"please do it for me" or "Welcome to my blog"

To say I never expected to be a "housewife" is an understatement. I never even expected to get married, to be honest with you. Not because I have anything against marriage, on the contrary, I just hadn't found
"the one" by the time I hit forty, so I figured it wasn't happening.
But after 42 years living on my own, 25 years working in retail and 20 years living in urban Chicago , I now find myself married, with three dogs, unemployed and living in a lovely, cranky old house on the outskirts of Detroit...with a yard and a laundry list of DIY projects, most of which I would like to transfer to a "please do it for me" list (PDIFM if you will).
I have no experience gardening even less experience keeping a house and the last time I fixed a leaky toilet I ended up with a flooded basement and a big plumbing bill, but I'm nothing if not tenacious. Stick around and see how it goes......