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Small triumphs
Nov. 26th, 2022 05:46 pmToday I went to the Berkeley Farmers Market, and then continued north to El Cerrito the long way - via climbing Spruce and heading out to Inspiration Point before descending on the El Cerrito side of the East Bay hills. Beautiful cool sunny day for a bike ride!
I wanted to go to El Cerrito partly as a reconnaissance ride for when my biking buddy visits next month, and partly because I know there's a large, well-stocked hardware store there. I needed skirt hangers, and hooks for the bathroom door. I'm sure there are closer places to get those, but this worked.
I chose a pair of hooks, biked home with them the flat way, and took 5 minutes to mark the bathroom door, drill holes, and screw them in. Tada! After three months of not enough places to hang things, the problem is entirely solved. Very satisfying!
Now that the bikes are out in the bike shed, the living room has become a more pleasant place to hang out, too. In some ways I feel like I just arrived, just finished moving in. It just took awhile for everything to find its place.
I'm looking up at my tile art now properly hanging over the fireplace. I'm still finding my sense of this as my home, the new place I chose, the right place for now and hopefully a while to come.
I wanted to go to El Cerrito partly as a reconnaissance ride for when my biking buddy visits next month, and partly because I know there's a large, well-stocked hardware store there. I needed skirt hangers, and hooks for the bathroom door. I'm sure there are closer places to get those, but this worked.
I chose a pair of hooks, biked home with them the flat way, and took 5 minutes to mark the bathroom door, drill holes, and screw them in. Tada! After three months of not enough places to hang things, the problem is entirely solved. Very satisfying!
Now that the bikes are out in the bike shed, the living room has become a more pleasant place to hang out, too. In some ways I feel like I just arrived, just finished moving in. It just took awhile for everything to find its place.
I'm looking up at my tile art now properly hanging over the fireplace. I'm still finding my sense of this as my home, the new place I chose, the right place for now and hopefully a while to come.
