7th March 2020
There are some days that are ordinary, when it is hard to find something interesting to comment on, but others, when at the end I have to say, “ did that really happen?”
There was one big event that I knew about, and prepared for.
About a week ago there was a post on the Saugatuck home page about the dismantling of a wooden sculpture outside the Arts Centre.
This was a very interesting piece that had been on show for a couple of years. In the post it was offering the timber free to anyone who wanted it. This was an offer too good to miss, and Kelli was on to it immediately, and we had the first choice on it. Well today was the day to collect, so I was getting prepared to meet the 1.00pm collection time.
Suddenly Kelli burst in to the garage all excited.
Now this means many things, from a duck in the back yard to a squirrel gnawing it’s nuts, but this time it was a Marketplace post for six mid century chairs for $20.
She held up her phone with the picture on it, they looked pretty good, and I agreed that it was too good a bargain to miss.
The sale was in Allegan about a half hour away. It was now nearly midday, so we tried to agree on a plan to get the chairs and the timber. We went through different scenarios but eventually settled on collecting the chairs, driving back to Saugatuck, leaving them in the flower shop, where Kelli sometimes delivers for.
The store was closed for the day, so that would be very convenient. We would then load up the timber close to our allotted time, and drive it all back to the house, off-load it, then drive back to Saugatuck to collect the chairs from the flower shop.
It may appear long-winded, but it worked.
The timber was a combination of different size painted wood strips.
The material I was interested in was the four by twos of which there were a lot. I selected the best lengths that we could fit into, and on top of the truck.
Kelli picked through the thinner pieces selecting different coloured lengths.
Originally I was planning to build a structure in the garden so that Kelli could see over our next door neighbour’s fence to view the lake.
That was a better idea than her original one of cutting a large port hole in it, certainly less controversial.
There was also the plan to use the big stuff as the base structure for the patio decking, but at the moment how we use it is still open.
The chairs will require a good clean, and a polish, possibility some re-gluing, but what I’ve seen so far is they are in good nick.
Not content with driving all around the countryside, we then drove to Grandville so that Kelli could sell some of her old clothes at her favourite place Plato’s Closet
This, then becomes the reason why the postman keeps placing boxes outside our front door. Kelli is the ultimate Re-use, Re-sell, Recycle person, it it hadn’t already been a thing, she would have invented it.
Another Lifetime to go 