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NaBloPoMo No. 9

Is National Blog Posting Month still a thing? I searched the internet today and couldn’t find anything about NaBloPoMo 2017. Even if it isn’t a thing this year, it’s always been a thing for me in November, so here we go!

I’ve been trying to jump start my failing blog by reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing. It’s pretty good, but I didn’t realize it was a memoir about Stephen King writing his own books, not necessarily a book about how to write. I just reached the part where he gets paid a huge amount of money for Carrie, but before that, he does a whole lot of writing without much income. As a preschool teacher, I spend a lot of time doing what I love without much income. This year, I am teaching 5 mornings a week and also doing administrative work, which is cutting into something else that I love: writing time.

This month, I hope to take a little bit of that writing time back, and write just a little bit every day as I have for the past eight Novembers during NaBloPoMo. I’ll catch you up on what’s been going on in my life, hopefully share some of our travels with you as I’ve been hinting I would do, and let you in on another hobby that I’ve been happily learning!

Let’s just pretend this says “2017,” shall we?

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Problems with Garage Doors

Sometimes problems are pretty obvious. Like when there’s water all over the laundry room floor, I can figure out pretty easily that our sump pump hose has frozen and I need to thaw it out and reattach the hose to the sump pump. That happened twice to me this winter!

However, when our electric garage door wouldn’t close and both Ed and I cleared all the debris that could be blocking the way, such as the leftover leaves and cobwebs from last fall and the little red snow shovels the girls use in the winter, and the door STILL wouldn’t close, the problem wasn’t so obvious.

As I was standing outside, staring at the garage door sensors and wondering why the door wouldn’t close, I noticed that the setting sun was reflecting off of the sensor lens. I moved so that I was blocking the sun from shining on the sensor and yelled at Ed to try closing the garage door again.

And guess what? THE DOOR CLOSED!

That solution was so easy, and yet so unexpected. Ed and I didn’t expect it to work, and yet it did.

April showers!

Strangely enough, this past Sunday we were up at my father-in-law’s place, trying to get it ready to sell. His garage door has always been a little wonky, and this time…we couldn’t get it to close after numerous tries. The light was blinking furiously and the door kept going up and down like it was possessed. I cleaned the lens for the door sensors and Ed tried to make sure they were lined up. There was no sunshine at all! In fact, we were getting rained on as all of this was happening. Finally, we had to detach the garage door from the electric opener and close it manually. Fortunately, I suppose, no one is living there at the moment so it’s not a big hassle. But now we have to get it fixed. *sigh*

Rainy Day

Garage door problems. I guess it could be worse! What problems have you been solving lately?

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