FiberglassMonkey

We had a great Christmas. Nice and relaxing. We had the Fair's over for supper, enjoyed a nice lamb roast with twice-baked potatoes, croissants, green beans, corn, and dilled carrots, with magic-cookie-squares for dessert. Afterward, we all played Apples-to-Apples for a couple of hours. Lotta fun. Good Christmas. Lint Monkey is also a fiberglass monkey. She and I spent the day installing speakers around the house, part of Dubby's primary Christmas present: a system whereby she can listen to CD's and the radio all over the house as she moves from her sewing room to the exercise room to the kitchen to her office to the dining room and into the living room. Lint monkey climbed into the attic and crawled around the trusses and supports and dug through the blown-in fiberglass insulation, miner's lamp on her head, hand-held radio for communication in her pocket, armed with a tape-measure, while I drilled holes in the ceiling and fed wires up for her to take to the various locations where the speakers are now mounted on the ceiling. Toggle-bolts go so much quicker when someone is on the other side of the wallboard holding the toggle! Lintmonkey is a soldering virtuoso, too, since we had to splice some 14 guage wire to the 12 gauge stuff to get it to fit the speaker connections. By the end of the day, she could solder a connection in five seconds flat. We strung almost 400 feet of wire today, installed four speakers on ceilings, six more on shelves/cabinets, and re-wired to the two speakers in the living room, making a total of twelve speakers, all powered by the amp, tuner, and CD players that will be located in her office closet as soon as I can get to Home Depot tomorrow morning to get a shelf to install in there to hold the equipment. All the wires are run, the speakers hooked up, ready to go. Hopefully by lunchtime, Dubby can be listening to music. Or more likely, talk radio. Whatever floats the boat, as they say. Thanks to Lint Monkey for giving up her day to be half of the installation team. And thanks too to Bopnopper for holding the flashlight tonight as C and I stood on our respective ladders making the electrical connections.