More changes in the house...
Today I headed out to Hannaford's on Route 1 to stock up on cat food. I did cross 129 into Salvation Army's parking lot. I haven't been going as much as I used to, but a couple times per month I manage to stop in.
So, as I pull into my parking space, a see a truck come in behind me. The back of the truck has two Danish Modern chairs strapped down in it. The man who is driving the truck pulls further along from where I'm stopped, parking just beside the front door to the furniture store. I get into the furniture area before he does, but he's just two or three steps behind me. I ask him if he has cushions for his chairs, and he says he does, and asks if I like the chairs.
Anyway, we're both inside, and he asks the clerk where he can put his donations and she gets a bit snotty and says that she's not going to take them and that he'll have to drive around to the back. I say that I want to buy them, so they won't be sitting there long at all, if at all. She snaps, "Well that's up to you guys. If you want to buy them from him, then you deal with him directly".
The guy shrugs and we head out. I help him pull the chairs out from the truck and then give him all the cash I have on me, about 30.00. He refuses it. I ask him to take something, and if he doesn't want it, to donate it. He takes 5.00 from me, and then asks me to donate the money to an organization that he is involved with. Fair enough. The chairs are in immaculate condition and the cushions don't look too bad, either.
The first place we positioned them...
finally deciding to put them here instead:
moving the big red arm chair back across the room, back it the corner it was in last summer:
Heading into the main store, I called D and told him about the chairs. He gets a little snarky and says, "Oh please, please, please, buy me a Raymor, too!" Raymor imported ceramics are sort of hard to find since they're quite collectible, but lo! and behold! What did I find? An enormous Raymor vase. So I bought it (it's been repaired so it's not valuable at all):
and another corner of the house that I've been working on: the bathroom wall, which we've covered in assorted mirrors:
So, as I pull into my parking space, a see a truck come in behind me. The back of the truck has two Danish Modern chairs strapped down in it. The man who is driving the truck pulls further along from where I'm stopped, parking just beside the front door to the furniture store. I get into the furniture area before he does, but he's just two or three steps behind me. I ask him if he has cushions for his chairs, and he says he does, and asks if I like the chairs.
Anyway, we're both inside, and he asks the clerk where he can put his donations and she gets a bit snotty and says that she's not going to take them and that he'll have to drive around to the back. I say that I want to buy them, so they won't be sitting there long at all, if at all. She snaps, "Well that's up to you guys. If you want to buy them from him, then you deal with him directly".
The guy shrugs and we head out. I help him pull the chairs out from the truck and then give him all the cash I have on me, about 30.00. He refuses it. I ask him to take something, and if he doesn't want it, to donate it. He takes 5.00 from me, and then asks me to donate the money to an organization that he is involved with. Fair enough. The chairs are in immaculate condition and the cushions don't look too bad, either.
The first place we positioned them...
finally deciding to put them here instead:
moving the big red arm chair back across the room, back it the corner it was in last summer:
Heading into the main store, I called D and told him about the chairs. He gets a little snarky and says, "Oh please, please, please, buy me a Raymor, too!" Raymor imported ceramics are sort of hard to find since they're quite collectible, but lo! and behold! What did I find? An enormous Raymor vase. So I bought it (it's been repaired so it's not valuable at all):
and another corner of the house that I've been working on: the bathroom wall, which we've covered in assorted mirrors:
