After two years of having to hold the button down to close the darn thing as one of the infra-red sensors was found in pieces on the driveway, I suddenly had a brain storm--maybe they make REPLACEMENT parts for Genie garage door openers. A quick trip to Lowes and $65 later I had the parts AND a wireless keypad.
The hardest part was figuring out which breakers controlled the garage. With the kids off in college and the dogs and cats strangely uncooperative, I had to throw a breaker, run upstairs, check the garage lights and run back down to try ANOTHER breaker. Six trips later, I had it. Yes, six. Did I label the circuit once I finally found it? Well, no....but I'm going to (tomorrow).
I felt so accomplished after this event that I broke out the sealant for the deck and sealed the stairs. Then I hung a Roman shade in the laundry room.
Finally, I took Fargo outside for a quick pee and poo (Fargo's, not mine). Exhausted from my day of home repair, I settled down to watch the story of the lesbian couple that had last-distch in-vitro fertilization after several failures. Seeking to increase their odds, they both were implanted with two embryos. And voila--nine months later they had "quadruplets." So to speak.
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