Little fixes

To properly close the side gate in our yard, you need to lift the handle an inch.

This is how the hardware has worked for ten years. (We don’t use this entrance often.)

I had become so used to lifting the gate that I never considered aligning the hardware.

Yesterday, I removed the latch mechanism and reinstalled it … an inch lower.

With two minutes’ effort, everything now works swimmingly.

From time to time (or maybe all the time) it’s good to look around to see where we can reduce friction, where we can create alignment, and where we can help things to work as they should.

It might not take much time or effort to make a change that has lasting impact.