Yesterday afternoon The Wandering Monk and I scoped out the next step of the summer projects, a small porch.
The front door is on the weather side of the house. So part of the plan is for a simple, transparent cover to keep rain off the Mormon missionaries and out of the house. I wanted 1/4-inch plexiglas, but reality disabused me of that fancy notion. We decided on corrugated fiberglass/acrylic.
This morning I was on my way to the lumberyard to see what they had when … yard sale!
Yup. Garage sale-fu strikes again. Never before in my life have I seen corrugated plastic roofing at a yard sale. Less than 24 hours after I decide I need it, there it is. It’s not the UV-resistant type I’d have preferred; but then around here we get a whole lot less UV than some of you do.
I don’t have much use for the small pieces, but there are sufficient large bits to span the porch. The small ones can probably serve to surround little garden beds or somesuch. And I saved about 75%.
I also got these brand-new thresholds, three for $5.00:
The lumberyard has the brass ones for $9.99 and the aluminum for $7.99. So that was a big savings.
Alas for garage sale-fu, though; I needed a threshold this week and already (gasp!) paid full retail for a brass one two days ago. I’m so ashamed. 🙁
These will come in handy later.
I have very little in common with Mormon missionaries, but here’s one thing: they, like me, are not made of sugar, and will not melt as a result of getting wet. So, keeping the rain off the missionaries is by no means obligatory.
Keeping the rain out of the house, though … does seem highly desirable.
I hope it works well!
“The small ones can probably serve to surround little garden beds or somesuch. And I saved about 75%.”
Or a few trees in an orchard, esp. effective at protecting around the base during the winter. Plums, cherries, as well as apples?
Depending on the height, maybe keeping animals away.
are not made of sugar, and will not melt as a result of getting wet
LOL! But they’re so sweet, and that’s kind of a cute image. Now I’ll never be able to see them at my door again without picturing them slowwwwwly softening into little confection-like lumps.
Great deals on the corrugated fiberglass roofing and the thresholds! My wife liked going to garage sales and she found a lot of treasures to us for cheap prices!
Or a few trees in an orchard
Good idea. I planted a couple apple trees two years ago, which I’ve since neglected (on the grounds that if I pay too much attention to them they’ll die under my black-thumbed gaze). They’re still young enough to need protection. And I might yet get around to those blueberry bushes. Yep, lots of potential uses for the small fiberglass pieces.
Good to hear, sometimes blessings just come…
And – I’m also interested to note that the title didn’t mean what I first thought, as in Garage Sale – FU… 😉
It’s not the UV-resistant type I’d have preferred; but then around here we get a whole lot less UV than some of you do.
And I was just metaphorically opening my mouth to say, “I dunno – the UV…”
And I had to laugh, because people are always going on at me about certain less-than-submarinelike measures I’ve taken to keep water out of the Secret Lair, when I live in a desert and black mold really isn’t the worst of my worries…
Synchronicity! When we are most tuned into the universe, this is how it talks back to us. May your guides continue to show you happy “accidents”.
I need to have a custom doormat made:
MISSIONARIES: NO THANKS
I Already Found Jesus
He Was Hiding in the Pantry This Whole Time
Score!
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