Day 919 That’s a trusting place to leave cash.

14th February 2020

It is the two year anniversary of my proposal of marriage to Kelli, and boy what a road trip that has been. As I look out of the window at the falling snow that adds to the five inches that has already settled, I question why I cleared the drive earlier. Oh yes, Kelli has to help at the flower shop on one of the most busy days of the year, so I needed to do it so she could get the truck out.

I had placed a card on her pillow when she got up to let the dogs out, she smiled as she read the message. “ Did you buy it when we drove to Grandville?”

I smiled, pleased that I had taken that opportunity, because I don’t often get the chance to do covert operations.

That was a day that changed my life, not that renovating a cottage and buying one in a different country is not different, retirement is usually a time to coast and reflect life, not start another one.

But I haven’t regretted one second, each new day is another challenge, a different problem to solve, and more fun to make.

I switched the heater on in the garage, determined that I would reassemble the table ready for the last part, staining the top.

As I was placing the base attachment cradle to the top, I thought I could do a better job with the staining. So that’s what I did.

We had more interest in the rejected side table and the tall dresser that we finished yesterday.

I waited in all day with the phone close at hand waiting for the call when the person was due to pick up the small table, but no one came.

Kelli returned after four, and we loaded up the tall dresser to deliver.

But first we had to unload things that she had been given.

The hardware store was having a clean out of old display items, and these were gathered up and put into the back of the truck. There was a collection of wooden racks that must have stored something, these will need to be creatively marketed or we will be tripping over them for the next few years.

There was a large wooden thing on the roof rack that Kelli thought was a door, but it was not the sort of door that I had ever seen, it was more like a section of a fence.

However I’m sure she will sell it to somebody.

The delivery of the tall dresser we very close to us, and we were instructed to leave it in the garage, and the money was taped to the door.

This was a good ending to the week, and made us realise that we needed more furniture stuff.