The dome is sooo elegant. Today, the dome got LAMPSHADES. We picked up some fabulous floor lamps from the WRJ Listen about, oh, three months ago. $5 each. Fabulous. They've stood tall and naked these past months, though we had lovely large lampshades waiting in the cupboard. The problem was that the lamps didn't have harps to support the shades, and they are apparently so old that the harps you can buy at Walmart or Home Depot don't fit on the base of the lamps. Finally, after discussion #38 about our need to put lampshades on the lamps, Meghan suggested duct tape. Of course! Why in the world should Meghan try to fashion an appropriate harp in the machine shop when we can just duct tape a store-bought harp to the base of the lamp!?
The lamps look great, and add a feeling of elegance to the dome. However, elegance doesn't really suit the dome, so in order to counter this stab at civility we used masking tape to adhere the black cord of another lamp to our wall. Ahh, much better.
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