Every October, before the rains start mid-month, I put the atrium shutters back in place. But since I don’t have the energy I had even a few years ago, nowadays I tend to do that sort of chore on days when I feel I have the energy. That’s how I mucked out the henhouse a couple of weeks ago, and the system seems to be working. So when I had the urge to install the shutters a week ago today, I went ahead and did it. In the past, I’ve always installed the north-side shutters by myself, but waited until I had help for the much-larger south-side shutter. Well, this time I moved the ladder and all the shutters from the garage into place and installed the north-side ones as usual. But though I was winded from that, I decided for some unfathomable reason to attempt the south side alone. I leaned the ladder against the wall, put one end of the shutter on the ramp railing, lifted the other side to the top of the ladder, then climbed up a few steps and lifted the shutter onto the studs. To my surprise and pleasure, it went right into place on my very first try, and all I had to do was tighten down the wingnuts to secure it. Then I put the ladder away, et voilà; done until I take them down again somewhere between Easter and May Day. It may seem a small thing, but with Grace gone there are a lot of things she used to do for me or with me, that I now have to do for myself. So please allow me to celebrate these little victories which represent my settling into the way things must be now.
Archive for October 14th, 2025
Diary #798
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