House in Progress Diary

The Biggest Pile of Trash Ever!

Okay, so I cleaned out part of the basement today. One of the TWO toolbenches. W was a real "do-it-yourself" guy. I found a bunch of old tools, parts of things and a LOT of dirt and rust and broken glass and pieces of wood and string.

Life is not all eBay excitement here.

I did find an old Ford hubcap in pretty good condition. And we can finally get into our personal safe (did I mention the house came with a great big safe? There is an enormous safe. And they left us the combination. Which is way cool. And it was empty. 'Cause I know what you're thinking...I mean...my mind went there too, originally.)

The garbage men (and lady...go girl!) came this morning (one day early!) without warning. So, I'm pouring coffee while in my p.j.'s when I heard that familiar whine in the alley. I FLEW out of the back door, looking not very hot, screeching "Wait! Wait!" I tore into the back of the garage and hit the button for the garage door. And I just watched everyones' eyes get really big as the door rose up to reveal...

I plucked 6 big things out of the pile and handed them over (which didn't even make a dent, really), thanked everyone, shut the door, and headed back inside. There's a limit to how much you're allowed to give the nice garbage people and we're working our way towards gaining custody of the garage one week at a time. At this rate, the garage sale will be in September. Of 2004. When we have our garage back.

Peace.

Posted by jeanne on July 2, 2003 at 10:59 PM (1)