'She will not look beyond her mother's wisdom'

[flemmings]

"She only says 'Don't throw anything out because you never know when it will come in handy.'"

So I rescued a round white table from the gomi, and as it wouldn't fit through the front door I installed it on the porch, where I already have two comfy chairs (or comfy when you've put the elegant cushions I also rescued from the gomi on them. Cushions go back in afterwards because of Cats. Who will pee on them or shed on them or infest them with fleas.) Then I found a highbacked wooden chair, a treasure, and put that at the table. And now I have a comfy parlour-porch, except that the overhead light will only take 60 watt bulbs and it's dark early these days. No problem. There's that oil lamp I had back in the 80s; rescue it from the basement and buy some scented oil and oh how elegant my dusky meals will be this autumn.

Except I put it out on the Front Lawn Dollar Store some time back and now I don't have it any more.

I finally decided that overhead fans with a cluster of bulbs beneath are in fact better than overhead fans with a single round globe beneath. Four times the light, yes? So I shall get the old cluster attachment from the basement and hire an electrician to swap it over.

Only it's not there. Front Lawn Dollar Store etc etc.

Or maybe, more cheerfully, I just tidied the basement some time and they're both still there somewhere. Must go look.

Comments

[incandescens]

Fingers crossed that they are just hiding in the cellar.

[purpleicicles.livejournal.com]

For some reason, this made me laugh - I think because you're just so cute :)

If it makes you feel any better, I'm moving house soon, and the boyfriend keeps wanting to throw things away only for me to wail "But it might come in handy!". Our war of attrition continues!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Oohhhh this is how I am sometimes. *hugs* - hope you find what you need. (oh and do I wish you Happy Thanksgiving for ummm today?tomorrow?)

And fans with a cluster of bulbs??? Really I thought they were an Asian twist of a Western idea, or something. They're very popular here.

[paleaswater.livejournal.com]

but the overhead fan with four lights shakes when you turn on the fan and makes me dizzy with the spinning shadows. better go to a specialty lighting store and find a super bright bulb to go into the single round globe.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

At this point the round globe *is* the bulb (that is, it's a globe bulb) because I broke the globe that fits over the bulb some ten years ago. But the whole thing would have to be rewired anyway because they're made to take 60 watts only.

[paleaswater.livejournal.com]

aha, but thats 60 watt incandescent. with fluorescent you can get a 150 watt equivalent that'll use only 40 watt or so.