Day 81, "Every picture has a story"
This is the gate I made that shut the back yard off from the back of the garage. Before there was a gate we left for a short while and when we returned Wallace (our dog) was standing at the front door wanting to get in! Well I thought I will fix that so I built the gate and put it in place. Well what do you know, the next time we left there was Wallace at the front door when we returned. I thought I must have left the gate open but NO, he had dug under the gate and slipped through. What is a person to do? One can see there are cement blocks in the ground that were put there as "Wallace proofing". Well Wallace is no longer living as he was put down a couple of years ago. AND now the gate will probably be put down as well. I went to shut it a couple days ago and the post was just rotten at the ground so there it stands but I think I need to take it apart and throw it. End of gate and end of Wallace stories for today. I should add that Wallace was the smartest dog we had and I guess I could say one of the best diggers too!
I had so much success yesterday by noon that I thought I should take the rest of the day off! I had two electrical problems that had bugged me for much of the summer. I thought now that September is here and fall is with us maybe the summer problems would go away on their own but I was wrong. I had installed a new light in the sun room upstairs and it worked but it only lite about 10%. I just never took the time to look into it but it was not usable for many weeks. Well I took it apart yesterday and after a short time (about 5 trips down to the basement "28 steps") I rewired it and pesto, it light up like a Christmas tree. I said way to go Carmen. BUT wait I had a bigger problem. I had taken out the three way switch on the wall upstairs and replaced it with a new one. The switch allows one to turn the hall stairs light off and on from below or above. Well after I fixed (?) it if you turned the light off upstairs and then left it you could NOT turn it back on from the first floor. I thought about my Dad talking about electric work and telling how simply a three way switch was but of course he only taught me about the black, white and green which was like a kindergarten color lesson but nothing else. Well there are three wires going to the switch (all black!) and I must have done about every configuration possible until again, presto, we had a working three way switch. By that time it was only noon but I felt like I had accomplished enough for the day--not really.
This was a big part of our work yesterday. Where there are boards and awful paint there was a metal cabinet hanging on the wall in the back entry way. It came off so we could paint but it is NOT going back up. Maybe it is a little victory for me in my desire to take the metal cabinets in this house and throw them in the Mississippi River. I can't do that to the kitchen ones but maybe getting rid of this one is a victory for me! I will not throw it in the Mississippi River as that would be environmentally wrong and I do like to do things by the book! Anyway Terry and I will come up with something that looks nice and still takes care of the many things that were in the cabinet. Terry cut in around almost all of the edges yesterday so maybe, just maybe we can finish this today. I took the boards off and of course there were large holes in the plaster so I need to finish filling them before we paint. Terry has an appointment today but I think we can get things done.
We head to Jamestown tomorrow to see John, Judi, Helen, Joan, Ron, Marlys and Dave. I am excited and it should be a fun but short time. We will return Sunday. At that time maybe the count down to the end of summer/fall projects will begin.
My FP is done so I am also.
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