The closet situation has been resolved

Longer than I care to admit it (like “months” longer) the clothing rod in the closet had partically collapsed. The weight of the clothes on the rod pull both brackets holding it down about 30°. The bracket is a thick piece of metal at right angles, with a cross piece of metal at a 45° angle, forming a triangle. At the end of the horizontal segment is a curved piece of metal to hold a rod. The support bracket used to be straight, but was bent nearly in right angles itself. And since the bracket was attached not only to the back wall, but a shelf sitting on it, the shelf itself had partially sagged. At the time, I removed some of the heavier items from the shelf, and most of the clothes. Things got a bit cluttered. Then I finally got a round tuit and decided it was time to tackle the closet. It only took seven trips to various hardware stores to get it fixed properly. Trip one—a hardware store around the corner from Chez Boca. They had two similar (but not identical) brackets in stock.…