What a great Sunday. Thunderstorms or sunshine, take your pick – we had it all. Today I installed an antique French stained glass piece in the music room window, and I really like the result. Architectural Salvage is a great place to find accents for the house.

This one took some detail work – not my strength. I had to buy a Dremel-style rotary tool to cut off a weird metal stud that kept the stained glass from fitting neatly into my window sill. That involved figuring out how that weird tool worked. Then I had to find right angle braces to keep the stained glass piece locked in place, and carefully install them on the antique wood frame and sill. This is all the kind of shit I never would have tackled before retiring – it just takes too much time and attention. But now…it’s actually kind of fun. I like the result.