Thursday, August 21, 2025

Screen door chore





One of the most frustrating things about being a person with a disability is not being able to do something yourself. Today I posted images of the sliding door to my patio the screen door. No I'll take responsibility it's my problem it's my fault the weight of my chair which means the weight of me and my chair going over the threshold in and out of the apartment to my deck and Back Again this caused some trauma to the runners down below that the door slides back and forth on to the point where trying to slide it back and forth is forced May the force the screen door off its tracks to the point where it's just falling out completely. I contacted the manager and she's talking or going to contact the worker guy Bill who does this kind of repair hopefully but I don't know if it's going to do any good he's okay but I don't know if he's can do this. The other option is to call my brother but seems like I'm always calling my brother, which I hate to do because he's got his own life to live and there should be some things I can figure out myself . Spend a few hours since I wrote the preceding. When I wrote it the door was still in place and fairly functional. I could, with severe effort, move the door back and forth but since then the door has completely jumped off its track and completely fallen off. In fact I was out on my deck trying to lift up the screen door and force it back in or on to the tracks at least so I could put the screen in place and leave the door open. I like having the door open at night to catch the fresh air. Anyway I was trying to put the door back best I could when one of my neighbors who also has a disability ruled by with her dog and said she would come over to help it wasn't much I could say. I was actually getting the stove warmed up to fry a steak I picked up at the dead meat section of the market. I got a steak which normally cost 12 bucks for six which is still more than I wanted to pay but I need the protein.


We struggled with the door for about 10 minutes and decide to hang it up and hope Bill from the apartment complex would be able to do a better job tomorrow. I'll just have to shut the door to the patio tonight. I'm just glad I didn't punch a hole in the screen door. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have a functional door again.


I've talked about the fact that I live across the street directly across the fence from The Taylorsville Park which is a pretty good deal for parks if you like parks. I always forget about this time of the year a full course band I mean not like a rock band but like a marching band takes up residence in the park at least in the evenings. I think they're like a high school marching band or something like that a lot of brass which is nice I like brass. I think they practice their songs in the park I haven't gone over to watch him this year but they might be marching at the same time I don't know. But the night selection was or is actually the theme to Hawaii Five-O what's they do pretty well that sounds pretty cool the first time but after 5 or 10 times as the band practices it gets a little old and right now they're still pounding the drums and making all kinds of noises and it's almost 10:00 p.m. and I just want to get through the night and get some decent rest.


 

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