I forgot to mention in Sunday’s blog that on Saturday we took Randy’s grandmother’s dining room chandelier, circa 1930, to a restoration shop for rework and refinishing. This all started when the handyman we hired to paint the old house, with all best intentions, took down the chandelier and took it home to “fix” it.

Bless his heart.

Long story short, while trying to rewire it, he broke part of one of the arms off. Randy was sick, and almost inconsolable. (Question: why do men obsess on “things”?). So I found this place downtown with a Web site that had some magnificent pictures of chandeliers they had restored. We took the chandelier and one of the lamps I have from my mom’s house down there a couple of weeks ago for evāluation. Long story short, when Randy spoke with the restoring expert about the amount of work that needed to be done, he got very emotional . . . and so he just had to decide: do it or don’t do it, but the emotional #$@!’s gotta go.

We met with the restoring expert and she was very careful to ask us what I thought were all the right questions, as well as considerations we wouldn’t even have thought to give. In the end, Randy said “yes”, and this will be several grand worth of renovation money. But very very well worth it. The dining room will be spectacular.

Check back for before and after pics!