Un-hinge or Re-hinged!

I .

Am .

Learning .

In January, before Rich's last catastrophic medical incident, he leaned on this lazy susan door and busted one of the hinges. It was metal fatigue so it was not all his fault.

I looked at it and decided it was TOO difficult to tackle, so I removed the door and let the stupid thing be open. 

I gave the good hinge to Step daughter and she said she'd have her son get new hinges and fix it. Well, that didn't happen through no fault of hers or grandson's.

Grandson Dennis showed me how to use and change the tips on the battery drill thingy. 

Hey. It is a tool which I consider to have a motor. And I don't get along with Motors, so I've avoided using it.

So I decided to randomly take a trip to LaCrosse which is an hour away. I ended up at a Crafty Store which I would say has LOTS of yarn! I didn't get yarn, but got some chalk paint. I wandered by the fall decoration stuff and actually purchased something to 'decorate' my house with. 

My next stop was a hardware store and the guy couldn't match the hinge exactly. However, he thought what I purchased would work. 

So here is my decoration stuff. I was pleased with my 'decorates' as the kids used to call them. I got them with 60% off so I didn't feel like I paid too much.

Besides, it makes me smile when I walk in the back door.

My next project is getting a smaller table in the eating area. One of those tables with fold down leaves?

So...

Onto the Elephant in the Kitchen.
The broken door.
[I was also painting an ancient table with chalk paint that's 

the thing laying on the floor]

So.
I carefully read the directions.
I carefully figured out that the predrilled holes from the other

hinges did not match the ones I had 

for

 these hinges.

So I changed the yellow thingy head from a screw driver

to a tiny

drill and made...

new holes....with

many curse words as 
I forgot what Dennis

had showed me.

 I then discovered that I had to take everything else apart to put things in the place I needed too.

So. I had to take things 
apart twice.
As I must be dyslexic
in reading directions.
I put the hinge
thingies in backwards.
Two hours later while 
using blocks to hold

things 

in place...

I had a Lazy Susan Door!

It could use some adjusting. But I am not worried about it.

IT works.

It only took a couple of hours and lots of redoes to get it this close.

I decided to just leave it. 

Close enough.

I imagine that if I was in a wood working business or carpentry [WHICH I am NOT!], I could have done this easily.

I was very pleased with my afternoon of pretending to know what I was doing.

The rest of the afternoon was spent cleaning up gardens that had been frosted this morning. It was a killing frost so Charlie and I got right with the program and cleaned up 3 garden cart loads.

This morning I'd met my friend who had the wedding this past Saturday at her farm. We looked at the photos I had and discussed future photo wedding plans. 

We had coffee. We had conversation. We had friendship. I must say that I have a couple of best ever friends in both Kristi and Olive. We communicate, we understand, we are empathetic, we are friends. And we take time for each other.

While I was in LaCrosse, I did take a hike in the city's park called Myric Park. I'll probably talk about it in my next post. I haven't been to Myric Park in over 10 years. I got to meet a nature photographer and a young son and dad on electric bikes.

But hey!

I got unhinged or re-hinged!

Catching up

Well here we are on a Sunday. I was going to send in a grocery order and go pick it up in town when we got a phone call.

Rich's nurse is coming out at noonish today. He called while I was doing morning chores.

So instead of doing that, I am readjusting my schedule once more.

Before the Rich got sick, I did a nice long hike in the neighbor's valley.  There is this very gnarly and twisted tree in the grassy part of the valley that always fascinated me. The tree has been dead for quite a few years and has a lot of interesting lichen on it.

I've always wanted to do a 'good' shot of this tree but never quite figured it out. So here is the tree. Once I decided to convert it to black and white, it seemed to stand out a bit better.

It is surrounded by a variety of plants and quite a bit of golden rod shown below. I'd read an article about shooting through a plant at another plant to give a bit of interest to the shot. 

So I shot the tree from the other side with the lens close to the golden rod for a light blur effect. Below is the result. It only took me a gazillion years to get a shot of this twisted tree that I liked. And there it is.

During the big melt down on February 25th, I spent quite a bit walking around through the creek bottom. In my bag I had another Titan 13. This one is gold. I thought with the late afternoon sun he'd surely shine.

I had a bit of excitement when the Titan fell forward into the rush of water. I had to chase him downstream a bit to rescue him. The water wasn't deep at all. But I had to try another shot just for the heck of it.

I thought he'd look more regal and I wanted to shoot more up at him than this direction. I'll find another time and place to do that but without the water.

That run off on the 26th was really quite beautiful. I enjoyed taking it all in. The sound of the water was relaxing and invigorating at the same time.

Now I'm trying to figure out my new routine[s] and get used to another change in our lives.

Including creativity is going to be a new challenge to explore. I can think of it in a way as being pushed to change things up.

Caught up and now moving forward.