A stay at home day, today. I was tasked with replacing the overhead fan in the TV room - the in situ fan was a bit of a mismatch in that room - it was more fitted for a bigger area and was a very brassy thing.
So it had to go.
We had picked up its replacement a few days ago and it proved to be very modern, with a remote device to control both fan speed and light.
Installation was as usual, a lot harder than the instructions (such as they were) indicated. I managed to get it all together and was able to hang it off the ceiling bracket while connecting the wires, but when I came to the part where it was all screwed into place, I found I was unable to incorporate the remote receiver into the upside down bowl which housed all the wiring. In the end, I had to mount the receiver on the beam to which the fan itself was attached. I don't know if that was the maker's intention, but it surely wasn't going to go in the bowl. Anyway that's done - you can see the receiver on the beam above the bowl.
The fan does look a lot better than the brassy one.
Yesterday while we were walking through Old Town, I came across a USPS graveyard for old mail boxes and thought it worth a photo.
I couldn't capture all of them in the one photo - there were probably half as many again out of the frame on the left. It maybe that these are no longer required as I've heard and read that the Post Office here is incurring some massive debt - no doubt for similar reasons as its counterparts all over the world. I guess the Postal Service may have found it uneconomical to service many of the existing mail boxes and simply uprooted them.
We also walked up one of the few cobblestone roads left in Old Town - it's very rough and cars generally only traverse this road at walking pace.
