Garage door, cute AnaBelle

Our garage door never had been in good shape since we moved into our house. The opener would always stop just before closing and then go back up. It would only do this in the winter. During the summer, it worked fine.

After we returned home from the Philippines, the opener gave up the ghost. So for the past month, we had been opening and closing the door manually. This required a little extra effort. I had to wake up early with Ritchell to open the door for her, and close it after she left. It also required me to get out of the car to close it before leaving the house.

Tuesday morning, I opened the door for Ritchell as usual. When she left, I closed it. As the door shut, I heard a loud snapping sound. The torsion spring broke. I tried opening the door again, but it wouldn't budge. The spring had reversed it's pressure.

This became a bit of a problem...since my car was still in the garage. I had to wait until 8am, which is normally when I leave for work, to call the garage door company to come and install a new door. Luckily, they got a guy over to the house that day to install a new door.

I was thinking the install would only take about 2 hours, so I told my boss that I would be in to work in the afternoon. It turned out the installation took 6 hours. The guy was there from 10 to 4. My entire day was shot.

It wasn't that bad, since I got to spend the whole day at home with AnaBelle. :) It was also good to get a new garage door, since I was planning on replacing it anyways soon. So now we have a garage door that looks nice, and works.

AnaBelle is just as cute as ever. She now has a few bottom teeth poking out of her gums. She still is not crawling. She is getting to that stage where she always wants to be picked up and held by mostly just Mommy or Daddy.