Today I am working on the lighting in Grandma’s bedroom. She has been using floor and table lamps in there since the days when she owned the house. But she complains of her eyesight going bad, so as part of redecorating her bedroom, I am wiring in new ceiling lighting. This is not like, “Hey there’s Kelsey, the Master Electrician!” It is more like, “Hey Kelsey, you still alive?” So far, the work has been easy though, is it is all installing, and the last step will be to wire into another terminal just outside the room.
When this job is all done, there should be a lot more light overhead as I am installing two fixtures, both rated for a max of 60 watts for each of their two bulbs. All the bulbs are CF for now, rated at 19 watts, but outputting equal to 75 watts each. Her total lighting from the ceiling will stand at 300 watt (equivalent)! Of course, to lower the actual cost of operation, I will eventually replace the bulbs with LED, but that will come after the living room lighting is done, which will almost complete the rest of the house for LED installation. Granny’s room will be the most expensive because it will require all high output lighting, with 75 watt equivalent bulbs costing $20 a piece. But, when those are in, I will then be able to replace her switch with a dimmer, for an added level of comfort in there.
After the lighting is installed, this weekend we will be stripping all the wall paper and priming and painting the walls, to lighten the room up even more. She will keep her old carpet, which is a bit of a shame, but it tones in with her new color scheme, and what she is trying to accomplish in there. The big thing is that right now, the room is very dark, and when we are done, she will be able to see in there just fine! And if all this does not do it, then the white furniture she ordered will!
Yesterday I got a couple of Amazon deliveries. One was a replacement battery charger for my Nikon D300. The other was a 1/2 mile roll of electric fence wire. The wire is too narrow of a gauge, so I will be using it this side of the road for the animals here, and to keep the neighbors cows from reaching over the fence to eat our grass and garden. I picked up a heavier gauge wire from Valley Ranch which will be much better for the cows, horses, and llamas across the street.
The next step in the fence process is to get corner posts, which have to be much heavier grade than the straight line posts because of the tension that has to be on the wires. I also need gate posts! We will never mind the gates for the time being, and make out own because of the price of gates! Shelters and feeders will be more important!
As for the camera charger, I am excited to be able to use my baby once again. It is not the camera that makes the photographer, but the photographer that manes the image. The camera is a valuable tool. I only have so much patience for cameras that have light or resolution or focus or clarity issues. And that’s none.
Well, it is almost 9AM, so time to get at it all.
Kelsey J Bacon