Well folks, I truly appreciate your help. I showed my wife some of the comments, she was impressed, but not to the extent of cutting up her honey do list.
On the other hand I must explain that there is good reason for my hesitation to be a home improvement guru. First, I break into a sweat at the mere thought of going to a Home Depot or a lumber yard. I try on occasion to ask for this or that item, but quickly realize I have no idea what I am talking about.
Let me illustrate my skills.
A few years back my wife talked me into replacing a wall outlet in our daughters room.
So, what do you do first, you turn off the circut breaker to that outlet which I did.
I then removed the old outlet using my trusty screwdriver, I think it was called Philip and pliers (can't remember why I needed pliers).
After making the exchange for a new outlet, I plugged in the lamp...and it immediately went on.
Think about it.
Remember I didn't say I turned the circut breaker back on.
At that point I was banned from all future electrical work. On another occasion I tried to change a leaky washer and we ended up replacing the entire faucet and eventually the sink as I dropped the wrench and chipped the porcelin.
I guess everyone is safer if I just keep at this keyboard.

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." George Bernard Shaw
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody is not thinking" Gen. George Patton
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