Every few years or so we have an all out breakdown! It seems like everything in the house breaks, or is peeling, or falls apart or....something! This year it has been doorknobs and mattresses!
This is one of the bedroom mattresses - three stories up. We pushed it out onto the top porch and then out over the railing to the driveway below. You can't tell, but it has a big "swale" on each side where Hubby and I sleep and the hump in the middle was getting too big to be an effective seeping space.
Reed held it down while the Hubby drives the wheeler over to the truck to take to the dump! We are only throwing out the mattress not the perfectly good boy! He thought that was the most fun thing all day - or for a week even! We have to do more fun things!
I don't have pictures of the new mattress that replaced this one with the giant swale on each side - that was delivered by the pro's! Not these Pro's - the ones from the store!
This is the office door. It has been getting a little sticky, but we thought we had a little more time to get our poop in a group before we had to replace this knob. Because we have and Ike and we are out of baby gates, we have to keep the office door closed anytime I am not in the house and Ike is. Remember that one time when he ate my new laptop? We cannot afford any more Ike eatings so our doorknobs get a lot of use now!
This is actually our third doorknob since the earthquake and our second one this year. The last two we actually had to break the door to get it open and into the room and replace the doors! One of them I was stuck INSIDE the room and could not get out...hence the need to bust down the door.
Even though it really seems like guys would like to bust down the door, the Hubby isn't thrilled when it happens. He is sure that people (mostly the door replacement guys - whom we know well) will think I had locked myself in there and he broke it to get at me - it IS a think gin our neighborhood, sadly, just not in our house!
We are pretty sure these are the original doorknobs from when the house was built. We have been here almost 19 years and we have only replaced the broken ones. So... we know they are much older than 18 years.
The handle comes off, but even when put back on it wont turn the inner workings enough to open the door!
This was our conversation - me and the hubby - Him:"where is the drill? I can drill it out!" Me: "Its in the office!" Him: "Ok - Where is the screwdrivers?" ME: "They're in the office!" Him: "What tools are NOT in the office?" Me: "Sewing tools and a hammer and chisel?" Him: "Why are a hammer and chisel in your sewing tools?" Me: "Theyre not sewing tools - theyre laundry tools!" Him: "No they are not - go get them!" He didn't even ask why they are laundry tools for me! It's for breaking up powder detergent when the bag doesnt get closed right and it gets too hard to scoop! Hammer and Chisel!
And here we are! Open door, not destroyed, new knob that opens the door smooth as a baby's you know what...It's Butt!
We also replaced a couple of lamp shades this year, you can read about that here if you missed it, and all of the lightbulbs in the house went to LED as they burnt out. The bulbs were old too!
I hope that you have everything in working order, or at least a plan for when it isn't, and my words of advice for this week are - Buy two doorknobs at a time!
Open doors and fine mattresses! Happy Spring and Blessed Be!
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