28th December 2022
Kelli had decided that we need more tables.
I disagreed, but she found a free oak circular table with a broken base, but it meant driving to Hudsonville to collect. On top of that she found a small dining table and two chairs. I wasn’t sure if we could get everything in the truck.
We were to meet the person giving away the table at a dental surgery. The GPS led us on a merry chase, but eventually got there. The table top was heavy, and it came with two extension leaves. The base looked sad with one of the radial legs broken along a join under the timber, the result of being mishandled during a move. This will be an interesting repair.
The second pick-up was at a mobile home park. Usually this doesn’t fill me with much hope, but the furniture was okay. The style was more contemporary with a steel tubular frame and simple table top, the matching chairs had bland seat cushions, that could be better with a more colourful fabric.
The snow had started to thaw, more ugliness get revealed as the white blanket recedes. That’s the big shame, snow levels everything, the white landscape with the tree branches against a grey sky is a world in black and white.
Another Lifetime to go 