Day 1001 Behind the screen door

Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 51

7th May 2020

“We need a screen door between the garage and the entry way so I can listen to music when I’m working in the garage” requested Kelli.

(Under my breath)that doesn’t happen very often, “yes that sounds like a good idea” was my reply.

“Also when you leave the door open all the time the dogs won’t be able to escape and get run over”

She made a convincing argument, it is one of my few failings. I tend to leave drawers and doors open, and Kelli can trace my movements by these signs.

In my defence, the door from the entry way into the garage does not close that well, and when I’m in a bit of a hurry it stays ajar, and she makes a point when she closes it.

We went out to do a few errands, and I needed more polyurethane, so whilst we were in Menards we looked around at screen doors.

The first ones we looked at were some cheap wooden ones, that were a heap of crap, it was China’s finest doors designed to wrap round a corner, or at least the one we had selected was. We decided to have the premiere version, hand crafted from the finest timbers from the land of the orient. It was better made, but up there with “we could have made it better, but it’s going to America, so we don’t give a fig”

We got a pair of spring loaded hinges so we were set.

During this pandemic, face masks are strictly enforced in stores like Menards, and we are now used to it. Kelli has a girly one and I have a Union Jack neck thing that I pull up over my nose and mouth.

The majority of people stick to the rules, and you get used to wearing them, but I didn’t know how much a mask can restrict your breathing until I climbed the stairs to get the screen door that were stored up on a mezzanine. By the time I got to the top I was gasping for air, for me it was like attempting to climb Everest.

My mask was all clammy, and nasty, I looked forward to taking it off and wringing out the liquid.

Kelli sprinkled some wild flower seed on our new piece of mud, she threw so much down I thought she was sowing grass.