In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Well, thanks to help from a tall person with strong hands I got my front light bulbs replaced. I'd been trying to get the glass shades off for literally months, trying with my hands, using rust-remover, WD40 then thicker oil, and two oil-filter wrenches (one for the fitting and one for the glass). My last effort before calling someone in was going to be heating the outer metal bands up that have the bayonet fittings, that hold the glass in place. But that VERY helpful person was able to take them off by hand for me!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, how're things on the home front, KIKI?
Going well, I trust?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Anyway, I super-cleaned everything up and put some teflon tape around the glass shades where the bayonet fittings are, so with any luck I won't have that problem again.
But there's some other problem I may need to deal with tonight or very early tomorrow. Wait and see.
Glad it got fixed!
Over at this end, I switched my plan and did the big vacuuming first bc I figured if I didn't get most of the dust we'd just wind up kicking it around.
Got about 1/4 of the way thru, went to flick the switch off... well, the switch flicked but the vacuum stayed on! Flicked it again but I noticed the switch was VERY hot, do I yanked the cord (big spark) and called Mr Fixit... er, hubby.... and he bypassed the switch with some wire ties and electrical tape, and attached an extension cord with its own switch at the plug end.
Not the most convenient, but at least I could finish the vacuuming and the floor doesn't disgust me anymore!
So I accomplished something today!
I hope that other problem, whatever it is, resolves itself.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Good for you!!! I still hope to get something completely done by the end of the day here!
It's a wall outlet controlled by wall switch? How's the switch doing?
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Quote:I live on the top street that goes side to side across a hill. Maybe because it's the only through street from one end of the hill to the other, idk, but it seems like it gets a lot of police/ ambulance/ rescue/ fire traffic. Every 3 weeks or so I see flashing red lights shining through the curtains when I'm watching TV as the whatever goes quietly by. I always wonder what's going on, and where.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Also had an ambulance in front of the building when I got in today. Don't know what happened.
The building I am in is on a main street and a paramedic got off the working elevator as I was waiting to get on.
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More fog this evening.
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No, there is a rocker switch on the vacuum cleaner that fried. Hubby took that part of the housing off, pulled out/ clipped out the switch and literally bypassed it b
But on the plug end of the vacuum cleaner cord, he plugged it up into one of those short multi- outlet surge protectors - the kind with it's own on/off switch. So I have to practically go all the way back to the wall outlet to get to the switch, but at least I got to finish the job!
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Quote:Quiet night then.
Originally posted by Brenda:
More fog this evening.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Quiet night then.
Originally posted by Brenda:
More fog this evening.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Yup, by the time I went to bed could hardly see anything out my balcony windows.
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And more fog caused by an inversion pattern up here. All week and if we are lucky some will burn off and we'll get sun.
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Back and I managed to get the vacuuming done.
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So cold... 8 degrees right now.
Negative 10 tonight. Negative 20+ with the wind chill...
Think I'll be leaving the sinks running just in case.
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