Sunday, July 17, 2011

Let there be Light!

It is a well known fact that John and I are not handy around the house with any plumbing, electical, or mechanical problem that may present itself. John can paint and plunge with the best of them but that is as far as his abilities go and as for myself, I can't even paint well and I sure don't plunge anything.
On to our electical dilemma, the ceiling fan/light in our kitchen circa early seventies was having some issues with lightbulbs. Every time we had to take a bulb out of the fixture, a bottom would break off the bulb and we couldn't get a new bulb in there and if we successfully did get one screwed in, it wouldn't make the correct connection and ended up blinking.
We really did not feel we would need a professional electrician for this little fix, so we headed to Menard's to see what they had for the do-it-yourselfer. We thought we might have to replace the entire fan, but we found a new light that we could just screw on to the existing fan. Now that should not be too difficult. Of course, until the actual switch is flipped, I wasn't going to do any victory dances, but we flipped the switch and we had light. Nice new bright light!

So it was a job well done for John and his assistant, me. Now what should we tackle next?



2 comments:

madj said...

Let's not tackle anything else.
Can't we just rest on our laurals and bask in our success rather than push the envelope?

Verna said...

Good for both of you. When things like this are accomplished we can all rejoyce with each other.

I'm sure when the next issue appears (John) will be ready to tackle the next job.

And hopefully things will run smoothly and you have very few things that need to be repaired.

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