A Few Band-Aid Fixes
I've been awfully unmotivated lately. No real excuse. But a couple of outstanding issues have been resolved, with minimal effort on my part.
When we last visited our main bathroom's exhaust fan, it was dead. I was intending to go to Lowe's to look for a replacement motor, but I got busy with other stuff. After a couple of days with a sauna-like bathroom, I found that breathing nearly 100% water vapor isn't nice, and I had a flash of inspiration...
Now, how dumb am I!!!?? All this time, the second bathroom (not currently used for bathing) has THE IDENTICAL FAN UNIT. I just took the fan motor out of that one and plugged it into the dead one's place. Works like crazy. Argghh. Why did it take me so long to think of this? Of course, I do intend to replace the motor or whole unit eventually, and give the other bath it's fan back.
In other news, I've had 3 giant tree trunk sections laying in my front yard for maybe two years. They were the upper main stems of a locust tree. They fell one at a time, over two years. They've hit the chain link fence each time, and blocked the road in front twice, and creamed the mailbox post once. We cut them up as much as our puny electric chain saws would allow. So all the small branchlets and leaves have been gone, and the main logs have been piled in the grass in the corner of the yard where they fell. I haven't been able to cut the grass there for two years!!
Fast forward to this week... A service guy who had hooked my house up for FiOS service had asked if he could have the logs, and I said "YES!!" Long story short, he had to buy a new chain saw, but finally came out on Sunday and my giant-loggish-yard art-sculpture is finally GONE! Yay for chain saws!
I don't care if he sold it for money - I didn't have to pay a tree service to take it away! Maybe this will give me the jump start to clean the yard up for winter. My gutters would certainly appreciate it.
Ignore the pix - just uploading images to Blogger...
When we last visited our main bathroom's exhaust fan, it was dead. I was intending to go to Lowe's to look for a replacement motor, but I got busy with other stuff. After a couple of days with a sauna-like bathroom, I found that breathing nearly 100% water vapor isn't nice, and I had a flash of inspiration...
Now, how dumb am I!!!?? All this time, the second bathroom (not currently used for bathing) has THE IDENTICAL FAN UNIT. I just took the fan motor out of that one and plugged it into the dead one's place. Works like crazy. Argghh. Why did it take me so long to think of this? Of course, I do intend to replace the motor or whole unit eventually, and give the other bath it's fan back.
In other news, I've had 3 giant tree trunk sections laying in my front yard for maybe two years. They were the upper main stems of a locust tree. They fell one at a time, over two years. They've hit the chain link fence each time, and blocked the road in front twice, and creamed the mailbox post once. We cut them up as much as our puny electric chain saws would allow. So all the small branchlets and leaves have been gone, and the main logs have been piled in the grass in the corner of the yard where they fell. I haven't been able to cut the grass there for two years!!
Fast forward to this week... A service guy who had hooked my house up for FiOS service had asked if he could have the logs, and I said "YES!!" Long story short, he had to buy a new chain saw, but finally came out on Sunday and my giant-loggish-yard art-sculpture is finally GONE! Yay for chain saws!
I don't care if he sold it for money - I didn't have to pay a tree service to take it away! Maybe this will give me the jump start to clean the yard up for winter. My gutters would certainly appreciate it.
Ignore the pix - just uploading images to Blogger...