2024 Happy Blog Challenge Continues

Happy Friday!  Some happy things from today include:      My friend, Amy, came over this afternoon to help me get the bedroom painted in the apartment.  We re-covered almost the entire wall with white.  The old color was still seeping through. It looks so much better now.  The stairway and the section over the closet are still left to do.  I learned that it is a small enough area that there were some occasional tightness with two people and a ladder. After, we went for a walk on the Northern Rail Trail.  I have been on a very small amount of this trail before a few years ago.  The area is very pretty.  Part of the trail isn't complete and still has rails.  We walked over a railroad bridge with wood that was rotted which made for a careful walk.  I was pleased with myself for not chickening out on that bridge. Some of the rotting planks are visible in this picture. There is water down there. We weren't far from the trails a...

Happy Monday things: This morning, I had about six things that I wanted to do.  This afternoon I had done three of them.  One of the things I decided could wait, the others were me being lazy… but I'm going to call it self-care.  ☺ One thing that wasn’t on my list that I might have accomplished is thanks to Gideon.  We have a door that has only been working from the inside for quite some time.  It has a numeric pad that a code needs to be entered in order to work.  We have three doors with this style latch.  Gideon noticed something about the working door that we always use and then asked me if we tried taking the battery out of the one that didn't work.  I changed the battery and now it works!  I'm not sure why I hadn't thought of that months ago.  It is possible that something else went wrong and my taking it apart a little and putting it back together is what fixed it.  Either way, it works again, yay! Instead of trying to go to ...