I truly am trying to make headway on my summer bucket list - I would say I have at least a third of it done. But along the way, these other mini "projects" keep popping up and I think, oh I can do that right quick. Case in point are the bulbs in the garage door motors.
One of them is burned out, so I decided to replace all four and in the process discovered that the opener on the storage side of the garage actually works. I could have sworn Mark told me that its motor was burned out. But no, it opened smoothly and quietly - unlike the side I use all of the time.
These motors are 30+ years old and still going strong. I do need someone to come out and adjust them, but I can change the bulbs and clean them up.
I hauled out my trusty ladder and unplugged them first. A YouTube video later, I had figured out how to open the lightbulb cover.
They were very dirty and had a couple of dirt dauber wasp nests in them.
(side note: do you know that people actually sell large wasp nests on Ebay? What a weird world we are in. Mine got tossed into the driveway.)
Things like this make me pause - why did we never have actual pull strings on the emergency release?
I found some paracord and a 2 knobs from my stash and put one on each door, making it long enough for my 5'3" self to reach.
You would think a simple project like this would take maybe 30 minutes, tops, but I also had to look things up, go buy the dang bulbs, and talk myself onto that ladder. I also swept out the garage and set some stuff by the trash bins. Plus, it was already climbing in the 90s here.
I'm gonna have to pace myself with outside projects in the summer...
Gina
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