Before 1995

The locksmith came yesterday. Remember, we didn't have all the keys to the house originally?

Well, in week two the locksmith rekeyed the garage door lock. It had seemed to be going downhill - not unlocking when it should, and then early this week, it was spinning entirely in circles when we tried to use it, scaring us that we wouldn't be able to get to our bikes or car to go to work in the morning.

The front door deadbolt, we replaced ourselves around the same time, was also broken. I actually pulled the knob off it about a month ago. The door was stuck shut when we had all that rain, and I tried to yank on the lock handle to unstick it. Cheap lock from Home Depot, but come on. Definitely shouldn't just be able to pull it apart with my bare hands.

In any event, the lock on the garage is kaput and needs to be replaced. While we're waiting for the new locking gadget to get ordered, we bought an old gadget.


We bought a remote for the electric garage door opener installed in the garage. Wow, it works!

When we went to... well, you know... we looked at the garage door remote controls. They had cute little fancy-shmancy ones and big boxy ones. The packaging of the big, boxy one that we had to get said (something like), "This tissue-box-sized one is for garage door openers that were manufactured before 1995."

Grover (our very blue Civic) is living now in the lap of luxury.

PS
Tonight we also did our first load of laundry... and our second. :)!