Jungle House

We recently had to bring in all of the potted plants from outdoors when it dropped below freezing stayed there each night, and now our house is a jungle wonderland! I'm going to have a tough time giving them all back up to the porch when the warm weather comes back around, so I might just have to get a bunch more for in the house year-round to fill up the empty spaces.

Aside from the plants, there is another new addition to the master bedroom...

It's this little light switch in the corner. We have several flood lights on the back porch, but the one that is between the living room and our bedroom only had a switch in the living room, so if we forgot to switch it off before bed we would have to go all the way back through the house to turn it off. Not any more! Nick cut a hole in the wall and wired a switch up to control the same light using three-way light switches in both rooms.

Another recent electrical project was finally replacing the extension cord that has been draped across the ceiling to power the garage door opener since we first moved in. A few months back Nick replaced the old chain opener with a new WiFi-enabled belt opener (that we got on sale for under $200 including tax!), and now it's got a fancy new outlet in the ceiling to just plug into directly. This picture is from right after Nick installed it so the cord is still hanging down and it's not super pretty, but you get the idea. Hooray for safe electricity use!