NOT Getting Er Done!!

 The warm is beginning to hang around a little too much.  It's a not-so-cool 65 degrees this morning in sunny Central California.  We must be floating pretty close to the sun.  Seems like we could pretty much predict the weather in the last 40 years, but now Mother Nature is having a hissy fit!

Kitters seems to like it.  She spends more time outside now, even hanging out on my lounge chair.  That means lots of brushing as the kitty hair falls all over everything.

I had thoughts of hitting Costco and cashing in my credits, but somehow getting dressed up and going out escapes me nowadays.  

Instead, I once again looked up at these two light fixtures trying to decide what to do about them.  Yes, I'm standing on that ladder on the sitting area in the sewing room.  I tried to order one of these online, but the delivery date was 3 months away.  This is what it SHOULD look like.

This is the one that fell out of the canister.  I took the bulb out, just a regular light bulb on this one.  That's when I discovered the problem.  See the black on the wire close to the socket?  It's burned right through the insulation.  It was actually stuck to the bulb, having been pinched inside.  That caused the bracket to melt and break, which is why it fell out of the canister.  Good grief!  That might have caused a fire!

At this point I guess I have to tape up the wire ..... my electrician friends out there, will that work? ..... and see if I can find a replacement.  Two I suppose, since I doubt they will look alike.  EXCEPT I can't get the bulb out of the other one.  Big sigh ... an electrician, I am NOT.

Apparently I'm not so good at plugging things in either.  I tried to switch out my old faithful television for the new fancy dancy Sanyo one.  The problem became evident quite quickly.  The connections for the old one are right in the middle.  The connections for the NEW one are clear over on the left hand side.  These lovely wires coming out of the wall will not stretch any further and will not REACH the far left hand side.  

To add to that, I cannot for the life of me find the remote for the new TV.  Not new really, it came from the Arizona house.  Add to THAT, I have a Harmony controller that works EVERYTHING, but it is too old to work with today's TVs.  I think the only thing I can do is buy a NEW TV and a new controller, and have Sound Encounters come and install everything.

SO ... anyone have any recommendations on the brand of TV to get?  

Dead in the water on TWO fronts!!  At least this is something I CAN do!  I steam cleaned all the floors in the house.  Though I was trying to rest up, I just could NOT stand the dirty floors one more minute.  

I probably should have waited on the floors until AFTER I cooked another batch of corned beef hash.  If you've ever fried it up, you know how it can pop from too high heat, landing on that nice clean floor.  The taste was worth the second cleanup!

Lastly, I have to thank my friend Kathy who encouraged me to get Walmart delivery.  It's SO much cheaper than our Save Mart who thinks they live in the ritzy North section of Tucson.  Since making sure they HAND OFF the groceries directly to me, I have had not one single problem.  

I get text messages saying how many minutes they are from delivery so I can flag them down on the street.  It's interesting that so far 99% of the drivers are of East Indian descent.  Most are Sikhs, a wonderful, hard working group of people who have settled here.  He even carried the groceries to my door.  

That was my day ... trying to fix things I know nothing about and being thankful for small miracles, like Walmart Delivery!!!