Going…going…
I figure that by tomorrow, this lamp will be toast. Yes, this morning I forgot once again that the pointy end of our weed trimmer is a lot stronger than glass. Again I was wearing a hat, so no blood was lost as I heard the now-too-familiar sound of breaking glass overhead. The worst part of this all is that I have to go grubbing around in a ten to twelve-foot (3 to 3.5 m) area picking up bits of lamp glass, then sweep it all into a heap for disposal. Some of the glass is in the soil of the nearby driveway. Some of it goes sliding under the stairway. So it takes a lot of searching to get it all.
I am writing this as I wait for the trimmer's battery to recharge. It looks like there will be another three or four days or more of trimming to ready the place for summer wildfires. I am sure that by then this lamp will be history. Looking on the IKEA Web site, I have found the lamp's successor. It will be loaded with an LED bulb, too. I figure that even if I smash the bulb's glass outer shell, it will still work.
I think.
Hoping the successor is made of something other than glass? You can find many of alternative material at IKEA, I know:-)
ReplyDeletehmmm.... yes.... something other than glass.... Well, it's a concept. But where's the blog story in a tin lamp that just goes "ting!" when you smack it??
ReplyDeleteOkay, how's this sound? I can use a metal-shade lamp that won't break, and mount it so high that if I hear a "ting" I'll know it wasn't something I did, but rather maybe a bat that lives on the lamp and doesn't want me to be close by. But I don't know if bats can make a "ting" sound, so it's probably an alien in what he thinks is his UFO. Aliens can go "ting"—I've heard 'em doing it.
ReplyDeleteI did not know trimmers could be used on glass. And your aliens go 'ting'? In Australia they go 'ting tang tong'. We have dialectic differences I guess.
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