I've been working on a few things, but it's mostly small stuff. The easiest was the new garage door remote to replace the one that wasn't there when I moved in. Speaking of garage stuff, I sold the Porsche. There are three cars trying to share two spaces in the garage, and I really didn't drive it much anymore so might as well sell the car. Sad to see it go, but I've moved on to bigger and better things.
I got to do an emergency plumbing repair when I walked out of the office and started heading downstairs when what's this...? Water's dripping out of the cabinet in the upstairs bathroom. I close the shutoff and mop up the mess, and try to figure out what's going on because I didn't touch anything. When the previous owners replaced the fixtures in the upstairs bathrooms they kinked the line that runs from the shutoff to the faucet and today just happened to be the day that it finally decided to let go. A couple of trips to the Lowes that's around the corner 5 minutes before closing time and I've got it taken care of.
Since I'm slowly scaling up the projects I wanted to do something that I've already done before in another place I lived - replacing the old school toggle light switches with the new, wider ones. It's pretty easy to do. Just turn the switch on, run back and forth down to the breaker panel to try and find out if you guessed the right one, and remove and replace the switch now that the power is off. All you need to know is how to operate a screwdriver. I put in dimmers where there are dimmers already, nothing fancy at this point. Also did GFCI outlets because that was an item on the inspection report. The house was built just before January 1, 1993 and they weren't required yet at the time.
I've decided to try and do something about the trees in the front yard. They grow like crazy - these Vitex things and look like they've been cut on a bunch of times. I'm not sure if they're exactly trees or giant bushes, but if I can't do something with them I'm going to have to get them out of here and go with actual trees.
Kind of on a tangent, I'm starting to think about what kind of furniture would go good in the living room. The stuff in there now will go into the formal living room someday. No idea what to get yet, but I want something modern. Still plenty of time to think about it while I save up.
This is the living room right now
This is the front living room where everything will go once I get new furniture in a few months. It'll just have to look empty for a while...
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