This morning when I woke up and started opening the blinds … the one in the spare back room, came crashing down on my head. I caught it on the fly before it nipped me.
I heard the rod end pop off and skitter across the floor; so, I assumed I just needed to retrieve that piece – pop it back in place – and reset the blind.
It wouldn’t be that easy (of course not!)
The rod end piece wasn’t the issue: the rod bracket was the problem – the end had snapped off.
Locating the flung bracket piece … and looking back and forth between blind and bracket end; I kept thinking, “what would Bob do”?
I actually knew what Bob would have done; but I was pretty sure I could not do what he would have done.
1) I have no drill (I gave them to Bob's son & youngest brother in 2019).
2) Even if I still had his drills … they’d be too bulky and heavy for my wrists to handle.
I needed an alternative.
I don’t pull the blinds in my kitchen, dining, or livingroom windows; but the blinds in the master bath window, and both the bedroom windows, are pulled at night. I needed to find a way to cover the window in the spare bedroom.
Bob would have replaced the bracket … or known of an alternative – and got right busy.
I am not Bob.
But I can do what Val can do 😉
I looked at the window, and decided to cover it the best way I could until I could successfully replace the bracket – and rehang the blind.
I didn’t want to use a blanket: too tacky; I may live in a Mobile Home Park … but my home does not need to look like I live in a Mobile Home Park (like tessa’s decrepit house, next door, does).
Actually, this Park is very nicely landscaped with nicely kept homes (that was why we moved here in June of 2017); tessa’s is the only house (in 800+ homes) that looks abandoned and condemned: I really think she doesn’t even live in the house – in the 3½ years I’ve lived here, I only seen her a handful of times, and that tall-grass-yard-slimy/leaking roof-house never looks lived in. The car in the carport hasn’t been moved so much as an inch in all that time.
But, that aside … I do not want MY House to look unkempt.
I thought of the Spring Print sheet set that doesn’t fit the bed properly, and felt that would be an acceptable ‘okay’ solution, until I can do the thing right. So, I pulled the set’s top sheet out of closet storage; spread it out, cut it down to size – and opened the ends up for the curtain rod 😊
I went and got my little step ladder, and hauled it to the back room; I took down the valance … threaded the curtain rod through the large hemmed end: and hung it.
It’s not a ‘House Beautiful’ photo op … but it’s not ‘tessa trailer trash’ level either.
It’s workable, for the time being.
Sometime this new week, I will go into town to Lowe’s and see if they have little, light weight hand drills, a small woman like me can handily handle. Hopefully I will get a customer assistant that will actually be helpful, in an informative and exemplary way how to unscrew screws from plaster walls without pulling clumps of plaster with the retrieved screw … as well as how to screw them into the wall (I know I will have to lightly hammer a drywall screw sleeve into the unscrewed screw holes: I watched Bob) 😉
I am not a stupid woman: I CAN DO this without causing undue harm to the wall.
I hope.
And I am
praying for new neighbors next door, too.
