House update, week something-something

1) We have window shades in the boys' room and in our room.   Yay for no longer waking up at 530am when it gets light.

2) The pool is completely grounded and bonded.  I don't know what that means exactly, but suffice it to say, the people who did our screen brought all the electrical stuff with the pool up to code.

3) Jonathan took an old outdated alarm system out of the garage.  It's amazing how many cables came with it.  The wall looks so much cleaner now.

4) He also removed the escutcheons in the kitchen and painted them white, to match the ceiling (they used to be brown).  The best part of this is that he told me what he did and I'd never heard of the word "escutcheon" before.  Then I looked it up:

es·cutch·eon

iˈskəCHən/

noun

1. 1.

   a shield or emblem bearing a coat of arms.
2. 2.

   a flat piece of metal for protection and often ornamentation, around a keyhole, door handle, or light switch.

Of course Jonathan knew the word and I didn't.  He knows way more than I do about both military issues, and building construction.   

5) Kippah wall!!!

Plus light-switch plating in progress.