You get one thing fixed, then something else goes wrong. Oh the joys of home ownership!
I noticed last week that our automatic garage door was acting a little bit wonky but I put it out of my mine. I just don't want to deal with yet another problem.
Yesterday I noticed that the garage door didn't close all the way. Left about a half a foot opening at the bottom. Just enough to let the outside twenty degree frigid air in our garage.
I played around with the pulley and accidentally made the garage door manual. Now that isn't going to work. I'm used to pushing the garage door button on the wall to open the garage door. Not for me getting out of my car and manually opening the garage door then once out of the garage, getting out of my car again with my eighty year old arthritic body, to CLOSE the garage door.
I called the garage door company I had in my Contacts list on my iPhone. They told me it would cost me initially $160 to JUST come out here. WHAT? I asked them where they were located. The nice woman on the other end of my iPhone call told me "Easton, Maryland." "Oh no" I said. I'll have to call a local company. She said "Fine." She was actually very nice about it, not snotty or anything. I don't need snotty right now.
I looked again in my Contacts and there he was. Randy P., the guy who fixed my garage door several years go when it acted up. He was friendly, and reasonable in cost. Not $160 for just showing up, for chrissakes.
I called Randy. He said "Hello Ron" (he knows my name! Well, I aim unforgettable to some people). He said he couldn't send his guys out until Monday. Okay, that will have to do.
In the meantime I got in touch with my neighbor Bob M. who has way better handyman skills than yours truly, although I am learning since Bill is out of the handyman picture around here at Casa Tipton-Kelly.
Bob looked at it (he brought me over some homemade chicken noodle soup, which I'm going to have for lunch today, yum). Put it back on track and it worked.
A few minutes ago I went out in our garage to open the garage door to take Bill for his daily ride. The garage door open. So far so good. I decided to check it to see if everything is working. I tried to close it, only went down a bit then came right back up. Uh oh. I tried several more times, same thing. I asked Bill if he could forgo today's daily ride. He said "I'll do whatever you want me to do." Fine, we won't go out for a ride today or tomorrow. Besides it's to damn cold. Twenty degrees with some wind. TOO COLD.
Good thing I stock up on food for emergencies like this. Also, I won't be bored being housebound for a couple of days. Look at the positive side, I won't be exposing myself to the latest variation on the COVID virus.
