Let there be light (switches)

Two reasons for my spotty posting: blues, because we're getting ready to head north for a while; and busyness, because we're getting ready to head north for a while.

One full day, for example, went to getting the hurricane door on the laundry fixed. Turns out it was installed wrong, and a misplaced screw doomed the motor, which meant the replacement was free, though lengthy.

I'm still waiting for the replacement water heater, which means we're showering upstairs.

And then the garden. . . .

Robert's been doing spring fertilizing, and I'm pruning things back so they won't be out of control in the month or two we'll be away (we're planning on hopping down during the summer when we can).

And then the computer controller for the lights, which I'd like to fire at odd times while we're gone, as a little deterrent to disturbance. I've been wrestling with it for weeks, and only today found the right button to get the core application to fix itself and start working. So voila, the porch light now goes on at 20 minutes after sunset, plus or minus 15 minutes, and turns off sometime around midnight.

I'll fool around with regular lighting scenarios -- adjusting the spot on the Winnie Godfrey's tulip at top left, for example -- when I have more time.