Ongoing Letter - Allan's Place
Allan's journal to the world. (Sounds important, doesn't it?)
While Floyd is in Saskatchewan, I’m here. I delivered him there but found I had nothing to do, so I drove back again and started this project.
Whenever I try to do something heavy, like using the vice, the bench hops around and prevents any serious work being done. It wasn’t fastened to the walls – it was just sitting directly on the plastic shelving (see pics).
So I pulled it all apart.
I was in the kitchen straightening the curtains by the kitchen table when I saw this outlet (the top one).
Why is that surprising?
About 7 or 8 years ago I was miffed that the house didn’t come with an outlet on that wall. I bought a box, an outlet, and some wiring and tapped power from the outlet in the storage room on the opposite side of the wall. I installed the outlet in the picture (bottom). I could then plug in a laptop to read the news over morning breakfast. This is also a convenient place for a CO detector. Gotta be safe.
So today, while straightening the curtains, I saw the top outlet. “Floyd,” I said, “has this always been here?”
After more than 10 years of living here, no one knew there was an outlet there. We had a good laugh.
In investigating the crawl space under the house, F and I stopped to talk about the rat’s nest of wires and disused electrical junk that is (or was) our communications box. Is this not the sloppiest bit of work you’ve seen?
There’s a hole in our siding. What the heck made this? If you look closely at the paper beneath, you’ll see some scratches. I think it was likely a deer with its antlers.
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The flower garden is in bloom.
The bees are busy.
Unfortunately, the gophers are here as well.
