Daily Archives: November 27, 2017
Mirror, Mirror . . .
Our friend’s Janice and Dave Evens headed out this morning, on the way to Florida for a couple of months.
I got up early, about 8:30, to walk down with Jan to see them off, but she beat me to it by herself.
A couple of weeks ago I ordered Jan an extendable makeup mirror for the bathroom.
It pulls out 30†and has both 1X and 5X magnifications.
But with all the holiday stuff going on I didn’t get around to installing it until yesterday in between Instant Pot stuff.
Or at least I tried.
After marking the holes and drilling them out, I inserted the plastic anchors that came with the mirror.
I did notice that these anchors had no lips to keep them from pushing on through the wall.
And as I thought, as soon as I tried to screw in the bracket the anchor pushed through and fell inside the wall. So, since I didn’t have any other anchors I was done for then.
Today on my way home from work, I stopped off at Lowe’s and got some of my favorite anchors, like these.
I’ve used these for years and never had one fail or pull out on me. So it was quick work to push through the remaining old anchor and then screw in the new ones, using the original holes.
Then it was quick work to mount the mirror bracket.
Next I screwed the mirror in place and it was ready to go.
Then when we travel it rides flush against the wall.
Looks pretty good.
Tomorrow we’ll going up to Pasadena to have lunch, and then run some errands. I know Jan’s looking forward to getting out.
The Word of the Day is: Mazuma
Thought for the Day:
Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.
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