Victory and Virtue

 

You wouldn’t think there was anything behind that black panel at the top of my microwave, would you? In fact, the panel doesn’t even look as though it would come off, but it does. I needed to change the filter, but couldn’t remember for the life of me how to get at it.

         

So I took out my trusty notebook that has every manual for every item in this house and
there it was. With of course the wrong directions. Last year I’d actually had to drive to the appliance store and have the salesman show how to remove the panel and then came home and corrected the useless directions to my own.

Stool, screwdriver, one screw, take out the old, put in the new. TaDa!!

 

Another victory was finally getting into my LLBean credit card account. This one was my fault, since after a long session a month ago with some patient agents, I’d forgotten to write down my new user name. My bad. All sorted there now.

 

And all this virtue was rewarded yesterday when I went to our town library and was presented with this stunning view outside. These Japanese maples are even redder in person. I hope they don’t rake these leaves anytime soon.