I came to a decision regarding flooring this week.
I will postpone replacing flooring for a while. Thanks to my brother-in-law, I realized there was a lot more I would have to do as a homeowner once the new flooring was in. Inevitably some of the baseboards get broken. They would have to be replaced. There would be holes to fill, and repainting. The project is too much for me to handle right now so instead I’m getting the carpet restretched. That is scheduled for February 6. While the furniture is out of the room, I’ll shampoo the carpets too. February housecleaning!
Notice in the picture, those baseboards are everywhere. They collect dust and require regular dusting. I don’t like baseboards.
I decided to pull off the drain cover in the shower. YUCK! I’ve never had to clean the drain, it was something Lee did, bless his heart! After getting some cleaning advice, I donned a pair of surgical gloves and went to work, starting with a painting stick, then needle-nose pliers and finally a plastic barbed device called a “Zip-It.” (Lee had one under his sink.) It worked great. Now I know how to do it and will schedule it on a regular basis.
I gave Lee’s BBQ away yesterday to good friends who need one. Today I gave away a two-seater, powered reclining couch built to watch movies on a big screen. It was so heavy I couldn’t move it to clean behind it. I will eventually replace it with a regular size non-electric reclining couch that can seat more people, but here’s what the living room looks like now. The seating remains the same.
Lee had a projector and sound bar with a ginormous pull-down screen to watch movies. I never learned how to work the projector and sound bar and I’m not ready to figure out how to make it work. Maybe someday…
Anyway, my friends had to prop open the screen door to carry the couch out and then we couldn’t figure out how to get it closed. I told them not to worry about it, I’d figure it out. After they left I fiddled with it some more and still couldn’t get it to close (thankfully I didn’t break anything). I decided to ask God for help. I figured He would lead me to a solution. It’s an Andersen storm door. I went to Andersen’s web site and browsed around and finally found a posting on how to close it. I tried it. It worked. And I laughed and laughed!
Rather than repeatedly pushing the button on the locking bar, you simply push the door further back without touching anything else, then let it shut. Like I said, I laughed and laughed. And thanked God! God answers prayer, no matter how “trivial” it might be.
Yesterday we had about 2” of snow. The temperature was at or slightly above freezing so the snow was very wet. I shoveled it into lines, then used the snow blower to blow it off the driveway. Well, have you ever tried to run mashed potato consistency snow through a snow blower? It just plop, plop, plopped alongside the snow blower. I finally just used the shovel to clean up.
Now the temperature is plummeting and it’s windy. That will last a couple days until it starts warming up again. Looks like we’ll get more mashed potato snow later in the week…
My, my. You've become quite the "handywoman".
You and Ofelia are ready to take on the world.
Bless you as you grow and learn to trust Jesus for the little details of life.
God is good!
Carl