{"id":4291,"date":"2012-09-09T10:33:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2012-11-11T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T23:17:33","slug":"shady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=4291","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Shady"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll never forget the morning
\nWhen Grandpa ate the awning
\nTo impress a pretty lady
\nWho went for men who were shady.<\/em>
\nAnatole of Paris, lyrics by Sylvia Fine<\/p>

One of the shades in the second bedroom collapsed this week. It was too small for the window that I had replaced a couple of years ago and I’d been putting off getting a new one since then.<\/p>

I picked up a shade and it turned out to be a fraction too wide. No fault of the store, we hadn’t measured it accurately enough.<\/p>

Ron brought the shade to the local hardware store to trim.<\/p>

Meanwhile, I realized that we had the wrong kind of brackets. The old shade had been mounted over the window, not good. So, I went to a third hardware store and got brackets that allow the shade to hang inside the window frame.<\/p>

Turns out that after the shade was trimmed, it was too narrow. When I tried snapping it closed, the shade “jumped” off the brackets.<\/p>

This foolish shade already cost us about $16, ridiculous, so I didn’t want to get another one. So, I cut and painted a piece of wood shim and nailed it behind one of the brackets and added a shade pull. I think the shade will work okay now.<\/p>

We did the transfer station run. I fed the plants in the front gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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