Saturday, September 30, 2006
Is it ever really over?
We're done! No...
¶ Saturday, September 30, 2006 
 | The last improvement that we'd discussed with my parents during their visit was a two-fer move: get more CD/media storage space and hide the rust-bucket fireplace in one fell swoop with new shelves on the mantle. You can't see it all that well in this picture, but take it from me: that dark cavern behind the tv is a blight. |
 | So, this morning after Dance class, we went over to the office supply store. That's not just a store, to Max: it's a mini-carnival, because he tries out every chair he can get his hands on and loves to get spun in the well-oiled ones. The highlight was when Max saw the conference table and called a meeting. He decamped when I called the question, so we lost our quorum, though. |
 | I was hoping that we'd find something sorta like the shelves we already have. I had no idea that Sauder still made, and our store carried, the same shelves, though in a slightly different wood tone. As I said in an e-mail earlier today, it's starting to look like grown-ups live here. |
We're done! No...
 | A couple of hours later, Max and Woody are in the kitchen and I'm at my computer, and we hear a THUMP from the other end of the house. I investigate and discover that the Woody's closet pole has abandon its post, so to speak. Being a metal pipe, it hasn't broken, but apparently it bent so far that it popped out of the supports (after breaking the cable tie supporting it in the middle) |
 | After a little brainstorming, and some searching for misplaced supplies (no, I don't know why the electrical wire was in my closet, nor do I know why I looked there), the original mid-pole keychain-capable hook and cable tie was replaced with this. |
 | It took a little while, but everything went back up on the pole just fine. We weren't planning to look through the closets this weekend, but it is one of the most likely next projects..... |
