Fixing things and spring is here!

Do you ever have things that need to be fixed but you never seem to get around to it, and you figure you get to it when you get to it?  Yeah me too and the vent on the shed was broken it did not make it through the winter, and while annoying because it was more thing to do and the weather was wet and crappy and didn't make it convenient to fix it.

 
Well, we got a clear and dry day so I headed out to inspect it in more detail because I didn't know when I would get my next chance.  I wanted this fixed because I could see it every time I looked out my kitchen window and even my bathroom window too. 

The weather held for the weekend and I managed to take enough of the siding off to get to the vent to see what exactly I needed to replace and if these were two vents or one great big one.  Let me just say it was so gross with bits of broken plastic and debris from the trees and just pretty much nasty.

With some help from Mr.Padawan we installed these vents, they are metal and there are more openings but they are smaller.  Those vents are notorious for hornets to start to build nests in them, so before we installed the new vents we stapled some screen material to the opening first.  I am really hoping that will help make the vents an inhospitable place because the nests were always on the inside of the shed in the vents.  Anyway fingers crossed!

After we replaced them and the first time I looked out and saw the shed with the new vents I had not realized how much the broken ones bothered me and me wish that I had fixed them earlier regardless of the less than stellar weather.   I cannot go back in time so I will admire our handiwork and enjoy how good it makes me feel to have it done and hope that this project success inspires me to just fix things rather than let them go.





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