My little anecdote for this morning is to recount Cyndie's adventures yesterday in scavenging* for building materials. When we were walking the lake path with Lee a month or so back, we noticed a bit house going up. So Cyndie, being the good building materials hunter that she is, drives by there occasionally to see if there is any good leftovers for the Dragon's Lair.
*Is that the correct spelling? It doesn't look right for some reason.
Well, yesterday she discovered that they are putting up rock on the entire exterior ... good rock. It's 3 - 5 inches thick, flat pieces and they were throwing away some nice big hunks in the area of 1 1/2 feet square and even bigger. So being the great wife that she is, she immediately thought, "Those would be great for Neal to make a fish pond from."* So we went by there and got a load in the Suburban, but, being as those suckers are REALLY heavy, there was much more than we could get in one load in the Suburban. So she went back again on her way back from picking Timmy up at school. Well this time, her experience was a bit different. The project manager had told her to park next door as they were getting a lot of deliveries early in the week. That also happened to be right next to the rock "discard pile". So Cyndie is loading up more rock and one of the neighbors comes out and reads her the riot act for 15 minutes about how she has no respect for other people's property, etc, etc. Cyndie wasn't even parked in that lady's driveway! Cyndie later went back and talked to the PM and apologized hoping she hadn't gotten him in trouble. He told her that the lady complains like that all the time and is basically just mad that this house is going up and partially blocking her view of the lake. I think the cookies that Cyndie brought him helped too. So the bottom line is that we have a bunch of really nice rock with which to rim the pond (whenever that happens), and all it cost was a couple of trips and Cyndie having to listen to a psycho for 15 minutes!
* See, isn't she great!
1 comment:
She is great! Love the story!
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