I am having a hard time adjusting to the Daylight Savings Time this year. Sunday I again didn’t get up until nearly 7AM. The first thing I found when I got up was the back door wide open. It had been 25F during the night and windy, and apparently when my son went outside when he got home from work, he didn’t latch it tight shut. The office was 59F.
So I got the office stove roaring and in an hour it was 85F in there. But that stove heats the entire west side of the house, so there were more rooms to heat than just the office. There’s a fan that blows the warm air throughout the first floor. Fortunately I had turned it off on Saturday because it was so warm outside. So the cold mostly stayed in the office and hallway.
It’s only been 3 days since the equinox and already the sun is coming up behind the barn.
I quickly got my post up and the cat fed and sat down to work on estate stuff at 7:30AM.
The forms at the front I have to reproduce as they aren’t remotely big enough for all the categories. That’s what I’ve been doing, making the forms and finding the information to fill them out. The stack of paper is what I’ve done so far, NOT including the 35 pages of inventory not yet printed.
As far as I know, what’s left is inventory of the cellars, writing an obituary, and going over what I’ve done to see what I’ve missed or forgotten. Oh, and I need to finish the safe deposit box thing too. I also decided to try to learn to do videos and video the whole property mess for inventory. I’ll put the videos on thumb drives in the safe deposit box. So I still have that to do.
I worked until 12:30PM on that and was pretty tired. I sat down for a while and found a message that I’d gotten a delivery.
Back in 2022 I bought a bunch of these lights and was very pleased with them. Last fall I decided to buy 2 more and ordered them on Amazon. What was sent to me was not even close to this, but was labeled with the same part number as the originals and used this photo in the ad. So I returned them.
I went looking again and found the above on e-bay, I thought, and ordered 2. Again, I received 2 not even remotely close. I returned them and gave up.
With the way things are going these days, I’ve been stocking up before prices get too high or things are unavailable. So I went looking, again, for T5 florescent plant light fixtures. The ones on Amazon are unavailable. Well, with all the LED stuff now (which I can’t tolerate), I only managed to find 3 companies selling these light fixture types.
When we were putting the porch lights up, one of the fixtures I had made in 2021 had broken and wasn’t repairable. So I needed another one and wanted to have 2 for spare.
Two of the companies wanted over $100 a piece for the fixtures. The 3rd was around $80 each, so I ordered 3. I knew they didn’t look like what I wanted, but it was the closest I could get.
I was very surprised when I went to open the boxes to discover the original light fixture part number on the outside. When I opened them I found the same ones I had returned twice last year. Sigh… But this time I wasn’t expecting something else, I got what I ordered.
They may not be just what I need, but they are better than nothing. I’ve also ordered lots of T5 bulbs to have on hand. I use 42 each year, and they do lose their potency.
Once I’d cleaned up the unpacking mess, I watched a movie. It was to be cold again Sunday night so I got both stoves going.
On Monday it’s to snow/rain all day so I’ve planned for my #1 intern to take me to see my friend who had heart surgery and then mid morning we head out to see another friend who had back surgery. I’ve also got the kitchen to clean up and laundry to do. And I’m making sticky chicken in the crockpot and have to have that going before I leave.