Category: Life with Pratts

Pratt Porch Project – Day 10

As the actor Jack Hawkins says in the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai, “there’s always the unexpected, isn’t there?” If you look at this photo from day 2 of the porch project, you will see the shingle siding intact on the back of the house. We didn’t plan on removing it to make the outside wall of the house look like an inside wall, but that is what’s going to happen.

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The small window in the left photo doesn’t open, to avoid conflicting with the kitchen casement window. In the middle photo you can look through the left window to see the new window in the living room. Whoever built the porch framed it too close to the window, so a smaller one has been installed, allowing the wall to meet the house properly. And the blue dumpster seen through the window at right belongs to the house next door, which is for sale.

MegaMazing in Lost Vegas, MA

We found our way to where we wanted to go for a Sunday trip, but then we got lost. The Davis Mega Maze, in rural Sterling, Massachusetts is a great way to do a lot of walking, get dehydrated, and frustrated for $15 per person. You could do that for free, of course, but then you wouldn’t have the fun of walking along paths surrounded by corn that’s higher than an elephant’s eye.

David Mega Maze Gold Poker Chip

The teens, Eric and his cousin Kate, made it through the maze before we did, so the grown-ups resorted to asking for hints from a couple of the guides. This year’s theme is “Lost Vegas,” so when you get to the end you’re given a gold poker chip. To do the maze properly and really master it, you should go early and take advantage of the all-day admission to go through more than once.

How Not To Take The SAT’s

The night before taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test in high school, I worked at my part-time job as a short-order cook. I had a hard time getting to sleep, and I woke up the next morning exhausted, hearing a certain then-recent song playing on the radio.

I drove myself with my then-recent license to the next town over, where the SAT was being given. That damn stupid song kept running through my mind the entire time I took the test! This is that song.