Not really, truth be, the opposite of shocking.
It is vacation time from teaching for Dirt, that means picking up where he left off on big projects.
On that list, the electricity in the Hippy Hot House was at the top. Up until now my electricity has been delivered via drop cords, several. Not very efficient and when water is present, a little nerve wracking.
Since part of putting in electricity means going behind the plant shelf on the north wall, the shelf had to be moved, plants and all. Before all was put back the shelf got redone from my emergency do up.
Sometimes emergency do-ups stick around a lot longer than they should. I never lost a pot off of the shelf and I talked myself into how handy it was that the water could run right off the shelf away from the wall. And it even tilted the pots toward the sun.
But really, I was only trying to make myself feel better for the shoddy job and the lack of desire to take it apart and do it again.
So now I have a fixed shelf and electricity! Two, two, two things in one! It won’t be long now until I have a water heater in my HHH and I won’t have to heat water on the wood stove to water my seedlings with.
Dirt is awesome and it is a huge blessing to have such a handy husband, who by the way, is also handsome. But we had a bit of a laugh over this job. When he started it a couple of days ago he told me that he had his wires crossed at the garage where the power originates from.
Yesterday, as he was finishing up, picking up tools and sitting on the step that leads into the Market Shed, I told him what I thought about having a handy husband.
I told him that I realize how lucky I am, how fortunate it is that my husband knows how to do a lot of things. Then I told him when I thought about that I also realized that it could be a bad thing, because it appears that I have a handy enough husband to do things that could also accidentally kill me.
…He’s on vacation, doing things he enjoys, he got a chuckle out of my observations.
I hope you made him a long honey do list. Far Guy hooked up my washer wrong once..it was shocking…almost bad enough to swear off doing laundry.
I used to set out watering cans full of water to warm up for the seedlings…as I got more seedlings we moved onto a dark colored garbage can..it is surprising how much of a heat sink those containers can be:)
How wonderful that all these improvements have been and are going to be made! You are indeed blessed with having a handyman husband.
Happy New Year to you and yours!
wishing you a very happy new year!
smiles, bee
xoxo
Keep that smile my friend,
Be well – be Happy – Here’s wishing you a Great 2013 – my Friend.
Just so long as it’s ‘accidental’, right?
Electricity and I do not get along. You would have drop cords forever if it were me.
Ralph
I have been spending the day thinking of all the things my kids should learn before they head out to get married and jobs that pay and leave their mommy ~ So many things I can’t teach them – things that my dad and Dirt just seem to know how to do – how did they learn all those handy little things? I’m super happy that you got your electrical done and 2 big jobs crossed off the list!!! Always feels great! Loved this post.
Wow, that’s gonna look great when Dirt is finished! It’s nice to have a special area for growing plants. Now that I’m (almost) healed from my surgery, I can’t wait to start gardening again. Already been doing a little here and a little there, trying to get back into shape. We, well Steve, has been laying new bathroom floors the past 4 weeks. I help by moving things and being moral support. *ha ha*
Happy New Year my friend ~:)