Terry was cleaning up/rearranging the garage and getting things ready to work on the outside of th house. Well ... are you ready for it??? He knocked over the railing which we painted on Saturday and BROKE IT!!!!! I was in tears ... the stress-button got hit big-time. We contemplated what to do ... get the welding on the wrought-iron fixed, leave it 'for now' and put it up broken, what to do? ... so off to Home Depot we go. That store has got to LOVE do-it-yourselfers like us! I can only image what 'little' amount it would have cost to have someone else do all this work that Terry and I have simply because they prob wouldn't have had to make many trips to the store to buy 'another' of something because it got screwed up. But, where's the fun in that?? Just think of the peaceful evenings and weekends we would've had, the amount stress I wouldn't have to go thru ...
Now we'll have the wood railing that Terry always wanted between the kitchen and family rooms (hmmm, ulterior motive?). Then while we're in HD, we see the gazebos ... how nice would it be to have one on the back deck? Our back deck faces the West and gets unbarably hot in the afternoon ... so hot, we cannot be out there. Our thermometer consistently reads over 100. Would a gazebo help thwart the heat and make our deck usable? Well ... we think so! However, we're not going to be impulsive and buy the first thing we see! Plus, silly us, we took the CAR to HD! So, we purchase the material for the railing and home we go. We jump outta the car and into the pickup. Off to comparison shop. Planning our trip, we thought of Sears ... and we wanted to check Target and Home Depot again and maybe Lowe's and Costco. Well, of course, all of these stores can't be nicely clustered in the same area of town! So, we head southwest to Sears and there's a Target there and a Home Depot. Costco is on the east side of town, so we'd check everything out and then make another trip back to get what we decide on.
LOL ... we are SO compulsive! We ended up getting our stuff at Sears. Not without a HD gal trying really hard to gain our business on this ... but we really were sold on the Sears. A gazebo and table/chair set. And a grill! WAIT! A grill too? Not like we needed one of those - we have one and it works.
Terry worked late last night getting things ready for me to sand and stain this morning. I thought I was done with that ... but silly me for thinking that!
So, I get up at 4:30, come downstairs to use the bathroom. I notice that the garage light is on ... don't think much of it ... I'm in the bathroom and here a light switch click (thinking - oh, the big light got hot and clicked off). I get done in the bathroom ... and now the garage light is off! Uh-oh! And I think Terry is still in bed. I open the door to the garage and the garage door is WIDE OPEN! I shut the door and lock it and go running upstairs to see where Terry was. HE'S IN BED! Someone was in the garage! Terry checked things out and nothing appeared to be missing! Whew! My heart was pounding! (Granted, if someone wanted to steal something, they'd probably have broken a leg trying to get something out of that garage - it's rather a pigsty!)
Oh Honey ... I know you'll read this ... I do love you and I just keep telling myself 'Just think how dull and boring my life would be without you!'.
OK ... now it's time to get to work!
Sorry, no picture today ... not even time to click the camera button. I'll try to take one and post later.
Did I say only 3 days til graduation? And the 'to-do before graduation list' is still quite long ...
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