GARAGE DOOR

For the last six months, whenever I’ve lifted my garage door, it has felt heavier and heavier each time. No, I don’t have an automatic opener, because 30 years ago when I moved into my condo my children ages 10 and 12 needed access to the garage to get out their bicycles. So I’ve had a standard door since the day that I first bought my home.

These days, friends and neighbors often ask me why I don’t buy an electric door now that my children are grown and gone. But I’m use to my manual door and it seems like good exercise for my arms. Nevertheless, something did seem wrong with the door and so I needed to have it fixed. Sure enough the repairman said the spring needed loosening and he could take care of it.

And he certainly did. Now, all I need to do is gently lift the door a few inches and it flies up the rest of the way all by itself. However, my garage door problem has reversed itself, now closing it is a problem. In the past, to close the garage door I could easily give it a slight pull and down it came, but now I have to exert a lot more effort to shut it. Oh well, pulling down is easier than lifting up. Obviously, I need to start exercising my arms to give them a good workout. And that means more than just typing on my keyboard as I work on my website, www.FunnyPhotosContest.com a photo contest for cute or funny photos and photo captions.