On Saturday, the Chelsea Retirement Community — or, as any self-respecting Chelsea old-timer would call it, the Methodist Home — undertook a formidable task: it replaced every last one of its incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs in an effort to cut its energy consumption.  How formidable was this task?  Well, while it’s fairly simple to unscrew one light bulb and screw in another, it’s a bit less simple to do that for more than 2,200 bulbs.  The newspaper wanted a few pictures, so I joined the fun for an hour to document the laborious undertaking.

Light bulb changing (4 April 2009)