I was going to just throw this in the trash, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it.\u00a0 I spent money on this fixture and it’s still in good shape, so I want to see if Goodwill will take it.\u00a0 Snow kept us home from school today.\u00a0We slept in, got lunch together and then went to my Mom’s house with Keri and her kids to go sledding.\u00a0 Good times, but not much accomplished around the house until this evening.\u00a0 I finally got the downstairs bathroom ceiling painted and Melissa got some painting done on the downstairs doors and trim. And we reached a milestone in prepping the house for sale:\u00a0 the upstairs is finished!\u00a0 Oh, yes. The last thing on the upstairs list was the kitchen ceiling.\u00a0 When we first moved in, the kitchen was a mess.\u00a0 It was cramped, poorly arranged, black and white, and had a giant black ceiling fan whose blades whacked the cabinet doors when open.\u00a0 My Mom helped us reorganize things and get new cabinets installed and my brother, Spencer, helped with the physical labor and installed a tile floor.\u00a0 I replaced the ceiling fan with a square fluorescent light fixture and then painted the ceiling. It didn’t take too long to realize the fluorescent fixture was weak and completely inadequate for a kitchen … but it took years for me to replace it with a smaller but brighter round fixture.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this switch resulted in a big, unpainted square surrounding the new light fixture, which stubbornly – year after year – refused to paint itself.\u00a0 It became one more of those unfinished jobs that I didn’t tend to notice except when we had visitors.\u00a0 So with the ceiling square finally getting painted tonight, I thought it would be fitting to make the old square fixture (which has been languishing in the garage for years now) my Give of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was going to just throw this in the trash, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it.\u00a0 I spent money on this fixture and it’s still in good shape, so I want to see if Goodwill will take it.\u00a0 Snow kept us home from school today.\u00a0We slept in, got lunch together and then went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}