Danita is still feeling pains. The prednisone has helped, but it hasn’t been the miracle cure that it is for some patients with PMR.

Danita and I met her siblings at Bud’s place for a father’s day dinner last Sunday.

I had a very unusual event happen this week. Our shower door has been droopy. It got worse, and I called in some experts. They found that the door wasn’t properly reinforced. The entire 65 pound door was being held up by screws in wallboard.So the men drilled out the old plugs, installed new plugs as a temporary measure, and went to their next appointment. An hour or so later, there was a short in the bathroom. There is a switch for the closet light on the other side of the wall from where the men drilled. I figured they nicked the wire. I removed a piece of the wall and found the wire completely undisturbed.

But there was still the short. I removed the wiring from the switch. Still a short. How about the closet light fixture? No.I removed wiring from the bathroom fan. No joy. I tried the fixture over the vanity. Nope. Could the breaker be defective. I took the electric panel cover off and swapped breakers. The breaker works fine. There aren’t many possibilities left. There are 3 switches on the other side of the bathroom. I took the first one out, no problem found. When I took the middle one out, I saw the darnedest thing. There was a sliver of the hot wire exposed where it went into the switch. The safety ground wire was right next to it, and part of it had melted. That switch sat inside the wall for 10 years with no problems, then decided to short shortly after those guys drilled the wall on the opposite side of the bathroom.

Fixing the short was easy. But I still had a bunch of stuff torn apart, with parts on the floor and wires sticking out of walls. The light fixture over the vanity was so cheap I couldn’t reassemble it. But I got everything else put together. When I was done, the light fixture in the closet didn’t work. Danita and I went to Lowe’s and didn’t see anything we liked. So we went out for pizza. When we came home, I ordered the fixtures from Amazon. The closet fixture was a breeze to put up and worked perfectly. The vanity fixture was even better. It was the same size as the original fixture. You can’t see any of that ugly discolored drywall around the light. It was much better built and therefore much easier to install. The best feature was the drop cords that suspended the lamp near the base plate while I connected the wires with my “other two hands”. I finished the installation just in time so that Danita and I could go to a condo party. We had a food truck with pit-beef, pulled pork, and other foods of that ilk. The weather was perfect.

Everything in the bathroom is back in place, except for the bracing for the shower door. Unfortunately, the screws are right next to an existing stud, so I can’t just insert a 2×4, because the screws will be at the edge and won’t get a good bite on the wood. I have a workman lined up to help, but it’s a small job and I have to wait until he has time in his schedule.

Now we’re all set to attend the neighborhood concert Sunday, with snacks, desserts, and libations.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.