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Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge used to be green and International Orange, and they changed the colours when they repaired the bridge. Now it is green and silver, not anywhere near as nice. I miss the International Orange.

I found eyeglasses at Winners, a discount store here. They are readers, with built in LED lights on the frames. You turn on the switches for the lights, and wherever you are looking is lit up. They work great, and don't disturb my husband, other than the fact that I look like a weirdo wearing them.

Nevermind! After I commented, there it was, arrow and all.

The best gift we got was a friend taking photos of move-in day. He gave us prints a few weeks later, and it was nice to have a picture of our family sitting on the front steps of our new house. They are also good "before" pictures.
I like to take over a picnic lunch on move-in day, nice bread, buns, deli meat, sliced cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, pickles, onions, etc., and some cold drinks and ice, paper plates, and a garbage bag. It has been appreciated.

I love the light fixture. if you look at the close-up you will see the bulbs are half-silvered, so they give an indirect, softer light. Because there are so many bulbs, they will be low wattage, contributing to a softer lighting effect.

When we first got a microwave in 1975, my Dad, a power engineer, brought home a Geiger counter to measure radiation from the microwave. None from the microwave, but plenty from the glow-in-the -dark hands on the clock in their bedroom.

In our old house, I found a child's signature in felt pen inside the kitchen broom closet. I let the signature bleed through the new coat of paint I put on the closet, as it was the signature of the previous owners' daughter, who had died- our friendly little ghost.

Step A- Turn off the power
Step B- Use a suction cup to turn the bulb. It should then come out easily.
Step C- if the glass pops off the bulb, like happened to us, use needlenose pliers to grip the edge of the bulb and turn it. Then it should come out easily. The halogen bulbs have two prongs on the end, so they don't need much unscrewing(like a regular bulb).

Someone commented on the -home- flikr group that they are using oilcloth to line shelves. I believe that is green, and someone else is using cork to line their kitchen drawers.
I'm from Vancouver, and someone checked "my" book out of the library, but i've done a little curing last fall, and the deep treatment this spring. I still have a repairs list and project list form last spring, but have made good headway over the summer, and am continuing to tackle those items, as well as additional ones we found with a new "home survey" we did last week.
Last cure we made amazing progress, and are doing well this time, too. Fixing and changing the little things makes such a huge change in our lives. Last fall, I came up with a new floor plan fro the family room, bought couches, and as we were all happily sitting on our new family room last night, was reflecting on the fact that the cure was what made the couches and floorplan a priority.

1. Any decor treatment that will be a colossal pain to remove or paint over, like the genius who advised using beeswax over a sponged paint treatment, or people who texturize the walls, or venetian plaster. How the heck will you remove that in 3 years when it's no longer in style?
2. Words as decor, especially long quotes on walls, and those cut-out words.
3. Tole Painting, and the people who teach other people to do it.
4. Mattress manufacturers who now build new mattresses super high. Bedside table makers have not caught up.
5. Flat screen TVs over fireplaces. What a wiring nightmare when anything needs connecting or disconnecting! Not to mention, your sensitive expensive electronics getting fried over the fireplace.
6. Decorative buttons on pillows. Ouch!
7. TV credenzas that won't hold the weight of a TV. (Ikea)
8. Bookshelves that aren't deep enough to contain most books.
9. Bookshelves that aren't sturdy enough to hold books without the shelves bowing in the middle.
10. Sofa fabric that isn't washable. How have sofa manufacturers found the only fabric in the world that you can't wash or dryclean?
11. Kids decor items in red, yellow, blue combo, and the alphabet as decor for kids, and that fake backward kid writing.