Attic Ladder

Lesley has been doing more painting lately and her lighting situation needed an improvement. When I rewired our little strawbale shack three years ago, I installed 10 nice recessed cannister lights in the main room. But for detail work a more intense and more general lighting is needed. I've been dragging my heels, and fighting installing a nice fixture that hangs directly over her work area because I didn't want to add visual clutter to our one room. At first I was just going to "temporarily" install it, but as I got going I had to "do it correctly" so I headed up into the attic and started running wire and ended up installing a wall switch for it.

Of course the boys helped all the way, from unpacking to final clean-up. This was the first time the attic ladder was in the down position for any length of time. I was running back and forth between the breaker box and my work, testing things when Lesley started calling me to come and look at the boys. They had decided to inspect my work wanted to join the fun in the attic.

Daaad, what are you doing?

I'll just be here if you need me,...

What are you doing now?

We thought you might
need our assistance.

This is kind of steep.

Tanj, what is he doing?

Oooo, it smells like mice up here.

I don't know why it always surprises me that
cats can climb steep stairs and ladders, since they
climb trees, but they always seem to open my eyes.

I remember when I was real little and my dad didn't have stairs
installed in his house yet, just a wood ladder with round rungs.
The cats had no problem going up and down.

Now Lesley has plenty of light to work
on her little masterpieces.

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