24 Diet Cokes, 1 Pack of Orbitz Gum, and Three Tubs of BreathSavers

[momilies]

Pardon me while I catch my breath.  We've now been here seven days, and I'm just now having trouble breathing.  Very weird feeling to be sitting at a stop light in your car and realize you can't get enough air.  Very weird

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[jilly_bear]

Bill and I bought most of our doors and windows for the new place at the Restore in St. Louis. We have been to several ReStore's since and so far the big one in St. Louis is the best. Not only the selecton but the quality of stuff. Some of these stores just have junk and some just don't have enough of anything but they are in small towns too so they probably don't get much donated. We were very disappointed in Cape's store. It is a lovely old building just off the main roads but once inside it looks more like a garage sale from the 50's! Junk - really just junk and not that much of it. I would have expected a big town like Cape to have more (and better).

I guess what really makes St. Louis store so great is we have all those old buildings that people are renovating and they bring old doors and windows in. Claw foot tubs, stained glass - they have it all! We even scored a hobbit door* in the parking lot of absolutely nothing! The guy who was bringing it to donate was having trouble getting his trailer backed up to the dock and when Bill went to help him he asked if he was donating this door (along with a bunch of other stuff) and they guy said 'yes - you want it?' I jumped out of the truck and helped them load it on our trailer. We plan to use it for the door to a cabin out in the campground later. :)

* Hobbit door - it's a really heavy old oak door that has a curved top (that will be a nightmare to frame!) and old wrought iron hardware still on it! The only thing that would have been better is if it were completely round!