25th October 2022
Kelli woke up at 5.00am which basically means so do I. Therefore it started a bad day, she was in a bad mood for most of the day. I wanted a bit more sleep but it was impossible. There was door slamming, alway gets on my nerves, as I don’t see the point.
I had to go to Elaine’s to dry fit the ceiling panel. She had done her homework fitting the pads and brackets, so it should have been a relatively simple job to offer it up to the frame in the ceiling and mark through the bracket positions, but it wasn’t quite that simple.
Firstly we carried the panel in the wrong way round and had a lot of trouble trying to turn it over, then the brackets had to be sprung to get then to fit correctly, and then, as always the pointed thing to mark the holes was out of reach.
Once we organised ourselves I marked the hole positions on my side maybe a little too hard as part of the frame came away. Now I had another thing to fix. I noticed that the screws were a bit short with very little thread sticking out. Some longer screws were found and the piece refitted.
The panel went on again and some temporary screws inserted. Elaine was happy with it, now all she has to do is upholster it.
I helped remove it for the umpteenth time, and set off back home.
It is that time of the year when the leaves fall and require raking them into pile at the side of the road ready for the city leaf collectors to arrive.
The downside of having a double plot is the amount of ground that gets covered, and I say it every year there is bound to be more leaves because the bloody trees get bigger.
I managed to rake half the plot before the rain came, I will continue tomorrow.
Kelli had been busy painting the heavy rustic dresser nicknamed “Pig’s ear” because it will take a miracle to turn it into a silk purse.
Another Lifetime to go 