Florida

Although heavy rains delayed things, very fast work yesterday and this morning has given us a beautiful and fully screened deck area:

Finished screened-in patio

Part of the reason for such a quick installation is that everything arrived as a giant Meccano / Erector set: those parts are each between 25′ and 30′ long!

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Our upstairs deck is now screened in, too:

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We just have to wait for all the trapped bugs to die, now! And for Atlas Pools to start making a pool, with everything else done …

With lots of rooms in our new home, and a desire to still use my big Wharfedale speakers, I’ve slowly set up one room for listening to music and watching movies with good sound; I found on eBay a pair of Wharfedale surround speakers from the same “Opus” family, and bought a second Samsung TV the same as in our Living Room. Finally today, I had acquired enough to finish the room, hiding the rear speaker wiring, and putting up some nice movie posters …

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It’s a small media room, with seating for only two – but that’s fine for me, and the smaller room has better sound quality. I hung curtains on the back wall to cover the window and kill echos, leaving space either side of the TV and to the side of the door for posters.

I’m very pleased with the movie posters I got (not originals but nice copies via eBay), including The Day The Earth Stood Still and War Of The Worlds (the original, of course!); the poster of It Came From Outer Space is a bit of a joke (though one of the better “B” movies!).

And beside the door, a nice panel list of “101 Greatest Movie Quotes”; I definitely don’t know all of them!

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