Grandpa kept himself busy during his week here working on electrical projects around our quirkily wired home. We offered to take him to Legoland, but he said he'd rather hang out in Yuma and "putter around the house." These are just a few of the things he fixed:
He wired the switch in our laundry hallway so that it actually turns on the lights now!
Nothing used to happen when we flipped that switch (and yes, we had tried changing the lightbulbs).
He changed the cord on the dryer so that it could be plugged into the existing outlet, which had a different prong configuration than the cord. We've been hanging our laundry to dry outside for the past year, since we can do that here, but it will be VERY nice to have fluffy towels again.
He removed switches that even he couldn't figure out the purpose of and covered the holes with plastic plates. (Our living room had 3 switches on 3 different walls. Only 1 switch turned on lights.)
He didn't like our existing kitchen fixtures and decided to replace them.
These are the old ones which were not installed properly.
And his favorite project was ripping out the overhead counter light that didn't work very well and installing new lights. Of course, that meant doing light carpentry work to fill in the hole caused by removing the original light fixture. Grandpa and Ian kept busy with this endeavor over several days.
Ta da: New light fixtures to lighten our countertop space!
Note also the new fluorescent fixtures on the kitchen ceiling.
THANKS A BUNCH, GRANDPA!!!
(We hope you had fun doing it too.)
Random Photo for Your Personal Gee Whiz File:
It rained half the day Thursday and this is what a radio-tagged horned lizard
covered with wet sand looks like.
Random Cute Kitty Photo:
Miss Still-unnamed Feline has quite the personality
and keeps everyone entertained with her antics.
