Fixit

I volunteered as a fix-it guide at our library’s Fix-It Clinic today, guiding people to try to fix about 10 lamps, 3 flashlights, and an electric teakettle, with varying degrees of guide-vs.-do and varying degrees of success. Here are my tools at my workstation.

Shiny

I installed a string of color-changing lights on our front porch. I can change up the colors & animations to suit the season. On this rainy, wintry evening I hope our neighbors appreciate a pop of color.

Nonstandard

A helpful woodpecker pointed out a soft spot on our house’s trim this fall, and we’re having a carpenter in to fix it. Turns out the previous painters used a nonstandard way to fix this section: jam a rag in the hole, caulk it, and paint over the whole thing. Sharpie for scale.