This last week has been a tough lesson in what I things I
truly need. It seems every day something broke. First, it was my husband’s
laptop. Then, the ceiling fan in the living room stopped working. The hot water
valve in the guest bath clogged with sediment and there isn’t any hot water for
the tub. The garbage disposal is making an awful ruckus and we’re afraid to use
it. The tailgate on our pickup truck broke and we can’t open it. One of the
automatic sprinklers isn’t working right.
The final straw: the coffee maker quit. I must admit I felt
disheartened and started worrying about what else was going to go wrong, and
how in the world we would manage to fix everything now that we are both
retired.
We sat down and made a list of what needs to be fix now, and
what can wait. In truth, none of it is urgent, except the tailgate on the
truck.
We did, however, do some research on how to repair each item and found fixes for some. A system reset repaired my husband’s laptop. A YouTube video showed my husband how to fix the truck's tailgate. The parts were only $40.00.