Pieter Cleaned our Front Door Lights and HURT his Eye

 Having your own home requires ongoing maintenance and or repair...

One of the LED lights next to our front door did no longer work.

So Pieter started to take them off the wall, to replace their dusk to dawn light control.

This is AFTER Pieter did the job, successfully!

In 2013, the spot behind them has not even been painted...

They needed some deep cleaning!

The contractor that build our home, did not leave much of the wire outside of the wall, for working with.

That made things complicated, for disconnecting and re-connecting.

The hand carved wooden name plaque got made in Indonesia and was a gift for Pieter's help in the mushroom cultivation there.

Cast aluminum in white, that we brought back from Italy.

They both needed a new dusk to dawn light control.

Pieter also did sand the cast aluminum and paint the lights, before hanging them back onto the wall.

In doing these various chores, somehow, he must have gotten something inside his left eye...

There are also glass panels...

While we were living and working in Indonesia, the house got build.

The usage of such LONG screws proves that the professionalism at times was not the best!

On November 3, I had to be with Pieter at the Vision Eye Group Ophthalmology Clinic in Macon for his 8:00 AM appointment...

One hour drive...

We tried on Friday, to get an emergency appointment in at the local Dublin Eye Associates.

But he could only be seen by mid February!

Review for Dr. Felicia Carolyn Fountain, MD in Dublin

Review for Dr. Jeffery C. Hinson, MD

So I was so glad that they fit us in for seeing the ophthalmologist in Macon, the one that did my eye surgery end of 2020 and early this year.

Grateful, as it turned out Pieter had a swollen eye and it got scratched, very painful all together!

With some special drops for two weeks, which we picked up at the pharmacy on the way home, he got fast pain relief and also better vision.

That was quite a scare!

On Wednesday, December 1, we both went back, again early appointment at 8:00 AM and all looked well again.

Pieter Acrobat High on Ladder

We did have the tree cutters, but this odd branch also needed to be cut off as it was hindering another oak tree.

So, Pieter put up his aluminum ladder and on the 22nd rung he started sawing off the branch.

Even sawing left-handed...I certainly held my breath, as I stood far away, against a big tree.

Found one of our bats on the driveway and it recovered!

 On May 31, I found a bat on the driveway and I picked it up.

So soft with brownish fur...

It was around 20:00 o'clock and I had dipped my finger in the cat's water bowl, for letting it drink.

No idea if they drink or what the cause of it laying on the driveway was....

It was so tiny inside my hand and it reacted to my calling and talking.

I took it upstairs, and then onto the balcony, no kitties there!

It was so very special for being able to video tape it in daylight and it seemed okay.

I was checking if it had a tail... and noticed its big ears.

Such soft fur!

Calling it Vleery Vedder (Vleermuis is the Dutch word for Bat).

They are oh so tiny, these little brown bats but ferocious mosquito and other insect hunters.

Vleery, looking at me from the top of the teak table on our balcony.

And yes, a little while later it was gone!

So for whatever reason it was down on the driveway; maybe dizzy...

Glad it got revived.

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