17th September 2022
Kelli’s peripheral vision struck again. The inertia reel seatbelts saved me head butting the dashboard as she made a u-turn.
She had spotted a collection of items outside a paint storage wear house and we were speeding back to the location.
And she was right, there were a couple of headboards, a couple of chairs, a brand new double glazed window, a tatty melamine cupboard and a home computer table.
Well, the bed bits and the window went straight into the back of the truck, then we headed off to lunch.
It was an odd series of events that led us to be in the area. It was my idea to have lunch at our favourite cafe, and Kelli’s that we took the road that the furniture was on, so we could have been guided by the universe to have these items.
I assembled the carcass of the kitchen cabinet, the front rails were tenoned and bonded in with epoxy, the back rails were screwed, these would be hidden by the back panel.
Kelli couldn’t wait to start on the headboards having them primed before the end of the day.
I did notice that one of the legs had part of the turned section missing, this would typically be against the wall, so no big deal.
Later that night whilst sitting in bed, I had a thought about the tail board that we didn’t take, because there was only one. If it hadn’t been grabbed by someone else, and was still there I could cannibalise it to repair the headboard.
Now we were thinking about getting out of bed and driving over to the place to see if it was still there, but we decided to wait until morning, but it didn’t stop us from thinking about it all night.
Another Lifetime to go 