busiest day of the month

But the bills are paid, and food has been bought, the gastank is full, and we are home with a tiny bit left over.  The lamp on the kitchen table died last week.  We had already replaced the "innerds" once and David didn't think it was worth doing again. We had recently found an old gift certificate from Dufresne, and wondered if it was still good, since it was dated February, 2006.  They had given it to me when I bought a bunch of furniture with the first bit of money from Dad's estate, and the delivery instructions were all screwed up. Well, they agreed to accept it, and we found a lamp in their clearance centre that will work.  ( A tall living room table lamp of wood and brushed chrome--doesn't match the kitchen at all)  We had really wanted a tri-light but they didn't have any, and told us that they weren't really being made, much, anymore. For the price, David figured that we could replace the socket with a tri-light socket from Rona, and still come out pretty good.  The lamp cost us $28.36 incuding tax, and using the gift certificate.  Once home with it, we plugged it in to test and had trouble with the switch, until David figured out that it was a tri-light switch.  We changed the bulb, and everything works quite nicely.  Looks a little strange, though.  We had bought the original lamp when we moved into the house on Woodside in 1987, so it didn't owe us anything.

We still visited Rona to find me a 18" length of PVC or ABS, 4 or 6 inch, pipe to use in my dyeing.  Since we aren't "commercial",  the 6"isn't available to us, and the shortest 4" we could get was 3' for $22.79.  Guess I have to figure out a different way of dyeing the fabric.  When I took the class, she had short lengths of the 4" pipe she offered to us, free, and I declined, thinking that was what I had here at home.  Got fooled.

Mike has had some odd occurances with  his apartment, hasn't he?  Hopefully things will settle down a bit now.  David spends a lot of time watching reality shows about people who go around buying up storage units, where the rent hasn't been paid, so don't forget, or we might see your stuff on the show. Beth, I'm never up-to-date on what work Mike is doing.  What is he doing these days?