How I spent my summer vacation

By Donna Brunson.

We had a little excitement here a couple weeks ago. 

As is typical on a Sunday, we gave the dogs a bath.  We also cleaned out the garage.  Somehow or other, the barrel that we have holding our garden tools got scooted forward a little.  Somehow or other, the rake ended up wedged in the garage door track (can you see where this is going?)  Somehow or other, our garage door ended up like this:  (this is not our door, but a photo from the internets.  I didn't have my camera ready for the tragedy ... but as a stand in, it tells the story perfectly.)

Garage doors are heavy, if you didn't already know.  Tim made me back away from under the door, while he held it up and tried to figure out what to do.

We have a very nice neighbor across the street, Keith, who saw this tragedy unfold.  He came running, and between the two of them, they managed to cut the tension cables and more or less (okay, less) managed to stand the door up in the doorway.  What was I doing during all this?  I was standing around wringing my hands praying that no one ended up with a broken bone (or broken neck, or broken head).

They wedged the door up, and Tim put up a board inside and securely nailed it, so that it wouldn't fall and squish a dog or a human.

Then what?

We called Mr. Russ Henry, the maker of all things better, the fixer-upper of our house, the person we'd love to take with us to Virginia to work on the new house.

So now the front of our garage looks like this:  (hey - I know what you are thinking, this is a work in progress, I tell you!)

See the post in the middle?  That's new.  Why do we have a post in the middle?  Well, two reasons.  We needed to square up the roof (this house is 26 years hold and it was sagging a little), and we needed it to do this:

Again, this is a picture from the internets.  We are building carriage doors similar to this, without the windows on the top.  Ours are still being made:

This is one of four doors total, two on each side of the post.  The inside will be painted the same color as the house, with the trim being painted a lovely color called "English Saddle" from Behr.  In fact, Mr. Henry is also going to re-do the trim on the house in the same color. 

Never a dull moment!

Happy Sunday.

XXOO
DLB