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Day 4: Doorknobs and broomsticks

I took a harrowing drive to the airport last night in the midst of a snowstorm to pick up my visiting mother in law. This morning, despite my best efforts to clean off the car before putting it back in the garage last night, the garage floor was a cesspool of dirty water, sand and road salt. I'm sure glad I didn't bother to 43. Hose and mop the garage the other day when I had planned on it. I did need to sweep it out a bit to keep folks from destroying the carpets. Here's what else I did today:

30. ✅ Replace the broken master bedroom doorknob.


At some point in history, someone in this house broke the doorknob on the door to the master bedroom. The locking mechanism snapped off and caused the knob to make a loud clicking noise whenever turned, which was loud enough to wake up the napping baby. This was a pretty easy 5-minute job. Both knobs were the same make and model so it was a quick switcheroo.

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