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A couple months ago, while I was using the string trimmer on my lawn, I got too close to the trim on my house, and I tore a hole through the plastic.
In another location, the plastic trim is protected by metal. I decided I’d do the same for this spot. I got a metal plate, I bent it in a 90 degree angle, and I painted it white.
On Sunday, I glued the metal in place. Yesterday I was able to get an “after” picture.
I have a wonderful walk-in closet in my bedroom. I’m in there every morning, so it’s one of the places I’ve really worked on and decorated. Organizing the clothing stuff has been a big part of the work.
I came to realize that I didn’t have a very good place for my belt, I had to do something it about it. I did this:
It doesn’t look great, but it sure does the job.
It was a Home Improvement Day yesterday. I figured out how to work around the weird metal box thingy in my kitchen ceiling, and now I have a light over the sink! Woo hoo! I predicted it would be a three-trips-to-Lowe’s project. It was only two!
I’ve had a new ceiling fan for… weeks? …months? The old fan in one of my bedrooms had stopped working properly – no light at all, and a fussy fan.
The new fan was a tricky installation as well. Two more trips to Lowe’s, and the fan was up. There’s light in the bedroom again!
The only drawback is that the new fan doesn’t have pull chains, it has a remote. The old fan used wooden pull-knobs I got in Wales. I’ve connected them to each other for now. Maybe I’ll hang them from the rear-view mirror of my car…
I started the day by switching to a new set of teeth trays. It’s so interesting to put the new ones on, because I can feel them pressing my teeth sideways. I like it. In the picture below it goes oldest to newest, left to right.
In the afternoon, I did some work at home. I did a little light gardening, including potting some houseplants, including my new ‘Art Hodes’ begonia. Nice!
I also got some new lights for my kitchen! Woo hoo! There are three of them. Two of them were relatively easy:
But the third light had a weird hole in the ceiling behind it. It’s a giant metal box that’s like a foot square. I have no idea how I’ll mount a new light fixture there.
One of the ceiling lights in my kitchen stopped working shortly after I moved in. It has a weird ring-shaped fluorescent bulb, so I’ve delayed replacing it, because where the heck do you get weird ring-shaped fluorescent bulbs?
Recently, another one of the lights stopped working. Now I only had one light, so it was pretty dim in the kitchen. I finally decided to do some homework and find replacement bulbs on the internet. I found them and ordered them.
…and they don’t work.
I think it’s not the bulbs that have stopped working, it’s the ballasts. Dang.
Time for some replacement light fixtures I guess.
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