The action surrounds what’s been going on here: basement reconstruction. Since Saturday, I’ve had men in my house. They have been hammering, sawing, drilling & generally making a racket. At the end of all the upheaval will be a nice little family room/art studio down in the basement.
There’s not really much natural light for an art studio but lots of artificial lighting. Thus we come to the other item in our title: lights. Ah, that was an adventure. It started on Saturday when I asked the contractor when I’d need to get the lights by. “I’ll let you know.” Yesterday, he let me know. He needed them by today.
Launch into panic mode. I need someone to shop with me. I cannot pick out something like this all on my own. I know nothing about lights, nothing about home decor, nothing about… well anything. The person I consider my expert? Well there’s 900 miles between us so having Louie along didn’t quite work out. Luckily another friend who lives a bit closer had compassion on me and accompanied me today.
Dolores & I wandered in the store. We looked at a gazillion lights. I went back & forth with what I wanted. Finally I settled on a combination of track lighting and fixtures with adjustable little track-like lights. I whipped out my phone & took some photos to send to Louie. (Yeah, it wasn’t a camera but a camera phone. Close enough!)
Did I mention the torrential rain after getting nothing for weeks and weeks? Hopefully it will rejuvenate my lawn and turn my hay back into grass. Unfortunately, because the ground was so hard and dry & the gutters on our house need to be replaced, we had some water leak into the basement. Yep, that would be the same basement currently getting a makeover with new sheet rock. Guess who’s getting new gutters this weekend.
And now the age old question: Why is it that doing any home project always means doing several? Because you know other things will turn up. I think it’s a conspiracy among houses. They all get together and decide what to do when any work is done on there. They have an official manual and everything.