Price paid for 4 lovely old doors = 1 scraped up bumper....

Hi Everyone - I know this is some sort of bloggin miracle, seeing that I'm actually posting again within the same week as my last post. Maybe I'm getting better at this!

So the other day, my hubby was gone the whole day playing volleyball - leaving me at home by myself. I think he was feeling a little bad for me when he returned, because he offered to take me on a "garbage date" (see my previous posts). I have been longing for one of these outings since the weather was a little more cooperative. This longing has also been fueled by the cancelation of the Kane County Flea Market in January & February, due to construction on the fair grounds (yes - it's NEVER supposed to be closed, but I guess there's a first for everything).

Anyway, we set off together in his truck, not expecting to find much - since home improvement projects seem to correlate with fair weather. We started up a steep hill - we did fine until about 30-40 feet up the hill... at which point we started sliding backwards, courtesy of the nice layer of wet, glazy ice coating the hill, and the truck being back wheel drive. After sitting on the hill sort of wedged against a cinder block retaining wall for about 10 minutes, my husband finally just started spinning the wheels - which jarred us loose & let us slide back down the hill a bit. Of course, he's scraping his bumper against the wall as we go. Ugh. We ended up sliding/backing down the hill & just skipping that alley.

Soo.... I'm feeling bad at this point, because we probably weren't going to find anything good.. and now my husband's truck has a battle scar (see the photo). We decided to venture down one last alley - which I've dubbed "the alley of wonder" because I've never gone down it & come home empty handed. Lo an behold - we found 4 lovely stained recessed paneled doors, with original hardware (unpainted!). How exciting for me - enough to cancel the "sliding down the hill episode" from my mind. (probably not my husband's mind though).

I guess in the future we probably won't be going down alleys with hills during "ice season" - but this experience contradicts the theory that there's nothing to be found in the winter...... perhaps more cold weather garbage dates are on the horizon??

:) take care - Amy