New Birds' Nest

The tweaking of possessions go on. It is definitely a first world problem to worry about rearranging ones' tchotschkes when there are so many people in the world who have have no home and no place to go but I have collected most things for years and it makes not sense to feel guilty about them now, so I might as well enjoy them.

Assembling these little cubbies was a relatively simple matter, but hanging them on the wall in our bedroom,  which seemed simple enough was not. It came with a set of those wordless instructions  and included a 'template' which was nothing more than a piece pf paper with a straight line and a dot at each end for the hangers. I taped the template on the wall and John put in the screws, the expanding type designed to go into wallboard rather than solid wood studs. Turns out one was in solid wood and the other in wallboard. John hung the unit on the wall and voilà, it was not level.

A new hole was laboriously drilled in the side that went into wood, the template replaced and checked with a level, and a simple screw replaced the molly bolt which can't be removed once it is put in. The unit was rehung, and voilà, it was crooked in the other direction. Tiny shims were fashioned and inserted into one side and at last it appears to be level, but it is still a work in progress. 

This all took an inordinately long time and the use of a drill, screwdrivers, tape, glue, scissors, and bits of cardboard and resulted in piles of plaster dust on the floor, not to mention the inevitable dust and cobwebs behind the picture which had to be moved to make space for the cubbies. Fortunately it was a simple matter to remove a picture from the wall in the office, put it in the closet and hang the picture from the bedroom on the same hooks.

A good lesson in geometry...or is it physics... that the deviation from level increases geometrically the longer the distance between the two endpoints. 

...or something.