FIXED IT!! OR NOT .....

 

It's a perfect 39 degrees this morning in foggy California.  Maybe SOME day, we shall see the sun again.  Even my kids are complaining now.  All they want to do is cuddle up, or at the very least, follow me around the house.  I open the door and they look at me like WHAT?  YOU WANT US TO GO WHERE?

It may have been a big mistake to let Kitters inside.  I'm a softy ... and she's a good manipulator.  She's even better at begging for food.  I let her out at night and went to bed, only to hear her scratching at the door.  Yes, I let her back in.  Make up your mind!!!  

Last night she was a BAD KITTY.  At 2:00 she wanted out.  From now on, the bedroom door is off limits ... and LOCKED.  An hour later she was scratching at the doggy door wanting in.  I just LOVE waking up at 2 am don't ya know!  I'm sure WARM has something to do with it.

By 8:00 it was foggy once again.  An hour later I couldn't see this tree.  Truly, I have to get out of the house.  These foggy do-nothing days are starting to get to me.  My bones and muscles are achy.

I sewed for awhile, getting four of the rows put together, before you know who wanted outside again.  WOW!!  WHAT IS THIS?  The sun was out!  What a shock!  We all went out and sat on the patio for 30 minutes, soaking up the warm.  Kitters just rolled around on the concrete.

Time to get SOMETHING done.  This light had burned out ... one of three on the garage.  I drug out the ladder and climbed up to find the bulb had split down the side.  I've never seen that happen before.  I gently unscrewed it and replaced it with another.  FIXED IT!

I'm not sure how long it will last because it is not an "outside" bulb.  I haven't been able to find any for outdoor use.  

Since I had the ladder out, I drug it all the way around to the far end of the garage.  This gutter has been dripping for ages.  NOT GOOD.  I had even purchased a cartridge of goop to fill in the holes.  UH OH ... really bad news.  The facing has dry rot, or wet rot as the case may be.  Big sigh.  

I got out the goop, crawled to the very tippy top of the ladder and tried to clean and dry the gutter.  I put a big wad of goop down, but it absolutely would NOT stick to the gutter itself.  I'm sure it was just too damp.  RATS!  Here's one I could NOT FIX.  

That's when I heard it ... meow ... MEOW!  Kitters, is that you?  Where are you?  A 30 minute search ensued before I finally went to put the ladder away and found her locked in the garage.  Curiosity will get you in trouble little girl!

Finding someone to repair this around here will be difficult, not to mention mucho expensive.  I guess it has to be done however, which is why a trip to the Elks Lodge will be forthcoming.  I'm hoping someone there can either repair it, or recommend some who can.

That put the kibosh on my entire day.  It's not uplifting when you find out you just can't fix everything!!  Maybe food will help.  And so I whipped up an enchilada casserole for dinner.  At least I ended the day with a success!!  It was delicious!

It's Bingo Tuesday and I'm beaming from ear to ear.  I'm NOT going.  On the other hand, it's my last free day since my stand-in cannot be there for the next three weeks.  

Next up ... my battery charger should be delivered today.  That will be my next challenge!!