Gosh Durn It!

So, I've been working in my shop for hours...all afternoon and evening in fact...when I go up to the house to make a pot of coffee, feed the birds their bedtime snack, get a snack for myself, toss the next load in the dryer and another in the washer...stuff like that. I start with the coffee, then the laundry, then figure I can do a couple more quick things as long as I'm at the back (the shop is through a hallway with a door on each end, off the utility room) of the house anyway...so I get busy with things and an hour passes and I figure I need to get back up to the house and finish what I was going to do earlier...

As soon as I open the door into the house I knew something was wrong. I smelled burnt coffee and a burning smell right away. (The shop is on a totally seperate air supply from the house so I didn't smell it back here.) Sure enough, the coffee pot burnt out :(. Guess we'll be heading to Walmart in the middle of the night tonight...anyway, I dealt with that, then fed the birds and got them tucked in for the night. As I closed the curtain the covers the windows that span the wall behind their cages, the curtain rod came crashing down...hardware came right out of the wall and everything, and I don't know how to fix it. Now there will be shadows and reflections on the windows behind the birds, and they'll be freaking out all night. I know that Pete won't be wanting to hang curtain rods after 8 hours of hard work on his feet, after midnight...I still have a bunch of stuff to do here in the shop tonight though, so I can't watch the birds, hopefully there will be no frights before I get up there, or if there are, that they don't hurt themselves.

Gosh Durn it!