New chair!

 Well, we've moved into the official lockdown. The girls have gone home, just in case. We weren't sure what the new lockdown rules would Be. Here are the new (vague) rules:

• If it is necessary for work, school or child care. Work or volunteering where the nature of the work or volunteering requires the individual to leave their residence, including when the individual’s employer has determined that the nature of the work requires attendance at the workplace.

• Obtaining goods and services, including food, beverages and personal care items that are necessary for health or safety, including health-care services and medications.

• Obtaining goods, services, or performing activities as are necessary for the safe operation, maintenance and sanitation of households, businesses, means of transportation or other places.

Sunday, Jan. 10th 

Poor JB still has neck pain, but can still get physiotherapy with all the protocols.  I'm sure it is his old chair. I knew we couldn't go to the store and look for a new one.  He tried my chair, and it worked out for him. JB dug out the paperwork from my 2017 new chair. I'd phoned Blair at 3:30 Friday, and they don't make this kind of chair anymore. They don't even make this kind of fabric, either. 

I decided we would exchange my chair for JB's His dates back to 2005 and it's a bit worrisome. I'm sure that's why he has pain.

 

We switched chairs. Well, my SIL and daughter did that last week. Bless their hearts. 

The store phoned Monday, and Tuesday they brought over a couple of chairs for us to try. Happy days! I had to reply to their pre-visit email/questionnaire. First they state that:

• Our staff are sanitizing their hands, will wear gloves, haven't traveled, aren't sick, have contactless payment.
• Then, they asked me: have we traveled, do we know anyone sick, do we have symptoms, etc.?

Bill brought two samples, as I had consulted with Bonnie regarding colours, styles. 

Ta da:

The funny thing is, Bill, the guy delivering the chairs, lives nearby! 

Then, as we were debating which chair, they brought two for my perusal, the propane dude arrived!

UPDATE on the mailbox [Maintenance during a lockdown]

I did it! I found one piece of wood (1 x 10) and ripped it to size. I had a ton of wood under the workbench when we moved in, but put it out for sale years ago with a sign for $50. (The previous home owner was a cabinet maker.) It was wonderful wood, but I knew I'd never use it.  I needed the space under the garage workbench.  A woman picked it all up (two trips in her truck) and promised to make me a woodpecker feeder. I've not seen it!

Maintenance during a lockdown

UPDATE

I did it! I found one piece of wood 1 x 10 and ripped it to size. I had a ton of wood under the workbench, but put it out for sale years ago with a sign for $50. The previous home owner was a cabinet maker. It was wonderful wood, but I knew I'd never use it. I needed the space under the garage workbench. A woman picked it all up (two trips in her truck) and promised to make me a woodpecker feeder. I've not seen it!

The Mailbox

Sunday night someone took out our mailbox. I don't think we were targeted, as Three-bay Road mailboxes were also smucked. Not as bad as ours. It was Mailbox madness, March 2016. It was right after a snow storm, so the plow probably took it out them. This time, it was deliberate. It had to be a baseball bat.

I cannot remove The Citizen box, we don't get it anymore, but it did protect the mailbox from the snowplows! 

Other mailboxes were damaged

People in my local Facebook group filed an incident report, as well.  They pried off the numbers of this box, four boxes damaged in total. Apparently, it happened at the other end of the lake community not long ago. We've all reported it. Apparently, an OPP member lives nearby.

I've been doing research. There are many How To videos. There are some things I needed to know. This strategy wouldn't make it high enough. The post is still there.

This is what I want, but Canada Post doesn't allow it!

I ordered a new one online from Home Hardware, but hadn't heard about the order in days. I figured, since we are going into lockdown (again - Won't MPP Hillier be ticked off now!), I'd best phone the store and see what they could do. Sure enough, they had the one I'd ordered. He offered to try cancel the other order for me, but I said don't worry, I'll do that myself. He instructed us to turn up at the door, and the box will be at the cash for pick-up. They aren't letting anyone in the store.

I assembled the new one.  

Mounting Plate

Last time it took me a long time to figure out how to attach it. I have the fun of attaching it in the cold, beside the busy highway. Until then, no mail! 

I checked out YouTube videos: my piece of wood is too slim. The box frame, that is supposed to fit over it, is 5 1/2", whereas the opening is 6 3/4".  They make wood 1 x 6", but actually is 5 1/2". It is most enervating. 

the mounting plate should be a 1 x 6"

As I stood here, the traffic was awful: noisy trucks roaring by, propane trucks, then, a car passed another car right behind me. My nerves are bad enough. 

I gave up. I don't know what to do.