Lighting

Various gouts of loud rain through the night, which I find immensely soothing. Some sleep accomplished, despite congestion and coughing, I won't say by whom. Got out and turned compost, dug and weeded, too much. Too damp to paint, or apply filler in gaps. This weekend.

Also ran to the larger hardwaremart - found socket/base and brown electrical cord,then the smaller local hardware store that we'd already checked for the socket, instead got a dimmer and screws.



Various elements, some new, some old. The box is for the dimmer switch, came from a yard sale and has been used for many years to hold incense sticks. It will have holes drilled and knobs attached, and find it's place on the wall. The bracket came on House, heavily painted and neglected, now stripped and burnished. It held a bulb, wobbly, on the outside back porch. Which is not where the original back porch was, we think. Dylan excited for this home-grown steam-punk project. He's planning to use an old guitar knob for the dimmer.

Wondering if I should finish the cast iron in some way. Inside, it won't rust, and I don't want to do anything cheesy. But maybe I should lacquer it? Rub oil on it? Not sure I need do anything, but I want to get this right. Likewise with the box, wondering if I should at least put on tung oil. Time, we got. No rush.

The bulb is LED, made to look like an original Edison-type bulb. Oh, the irony. House is all excited, eager to both express herself and be hip and thrifty.

We are going to mount it to the living room door frame into the Music Room*. Finally get rid of the abandoned ikkeah lamp that has nevertheless done admirable service, despite the inelegant design. Abandoned Lamp will no doubt find a corner to be Useful yet.


Addendum: Can't seem to stop myself, dug some more and put in bee balm (bergamot) that I just happened to find while looking for it at the nursery.




*Yes, we really do call it that. Like the Cat Exclusion Device to the basement, we use all the words. All The Time.