Furniture

Dryer timer fix (temporary)

I got my dryer timer working.   I used a threaded lever and Gorilla super glue and so far its holding.  Hurray!  The below video is the sound of a working dryer!

 I've never had furniture.  

At first, when I moved here, I got a couple free couches off craigslist but they were kind of stinky.  The cats marked them since they stunk already.  To get rid of them, I took them apart piece by piece, so they'd fit, bit at a time, into the trash.  I recycled any metal parts.  They're not much to a couch I discovered in dismantling them.

Since I got rid of the craigslist couches, I've used plastic lawn chairs or zero gravity lawn chairs as furniture.  They worked fine until one plastic recliner, brittle from age, broke beneath me and caused me some unpleasant cuts.

My brothers got me a futon a couple years back.  Unfortunately its too short for me to lay on without my legs sticking out over an end and rather uncomfortable for sitting.   

A few months back I splurged at Big Lots when I found a recliner already marked down.  I'd wandered in during a 20% off sale too.  The price was unbelievable.  I got it.   It has no electrics in it and not even a bar to recline it with.   I figured it might last longer if it was simpler.  I've loved it. With my bad back and knees and getting old, I wanted to have a chair other than the lawn chair, to be easy on my back in the evenings when I settle in.

Yesterday I moved the futon out to the garage.  Gigi, the neighbors cat who likes to pretend she's my cat, will love it.   Folks who come here, usually with cats to drop off to be fixed and chat awhile, can have a place to sit in my garage on it too.

Also I went to another Big Lots sale.   Some furniture was 50% off.   I was looking for a side table and lamp, to go by the recliner.  At first the clerk could not find any side tables on sale and I said 'thanks" and wandered off.  Then he came running after me with a box and said he'd found one on the sale.  It was a small box and I knew there'd be the job of putting it together but I was happy.  It was darn cheap.  He also found a lamp on the 50% off sale.  There are no lights in my living room and I use a flashlight evenings if I read in the living room, or a headlamp.

Now I feel ever so wealthy.   

Took me several hours to put the side table together.  A zillion tiny little parts but I kind of enjoyed doing it.

I'm very very happy with this set up.