“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We wasted too much time this entire weekend doing nothing. We tried to do stuff, but something or another got in the way. While at the BigOrangeBox trying to choose closet shelving we happened to arrive 20 minutes after a free seminar on closet stretching. That aisle was so busy it seemed fake, like a commercial for 'Closet Maid.' At that same time his mother called, wanting help on getting her computer turned on. Honestly!
The day before we drove out to New Windsor to get hay. He had already gotten a quote from the young lady who answered the phone, with the time we were to be there to get loaded. When we arrived no one was there, no one answered the phone. Eventually a guy shows up, he says the price is much higher than previously stated and the hay bales were small, almost ornamental-size. For that much? Wasted time and Diesel. We stopped by a couple more places, the same thing: small bales for a high price.
Condon Farm has a great website, advertise lots. This must have been a great estate at one time, but no one could spring for a bucket of paint in the last 40 or so years. Very sad. Nothing has been taken off the property in at least that long, too. Tires are piled up everywhere. It looked like the movie set for 'Deliverance' or 'Tobacco Road.' What I'd call 'Hillbilly Hamlet.' I was not impressed.
Sunny Ridge Farm has no website. A little sign is down by the driveway. The place was beautiful, neat as a pin, great outbuildings, very orderly. We drove into the spacious shed and loaded from a huge stack of bales. At almost half the price.
A running conversation thread was about our usual hay supplier's barn fire. There was also another horse barn burned in that general area soon after that. Arson. We talked about getting smoke detectors for the barn that ring in the house. Our boys are rarely in the barn during the day while we are gone.
He installed the shelving for the closet and put the mirror on the wall behind the bedroom door. We also got the wire rack out of the bedroom and into the laundry room downstairs. Because the rack is taller than the basement steps we had to take the rack out of the house and down the exterior basement stairs. That's when he found his keys that he's been looking for for a couple weeks! Right where the burglar can find them!
My long complaint about this house is that there is no 'linen closet' and there never was one, ever. The bathrooms aren't spacious enough to have one, either. With the new shelving unit in the closet there is ample room for my bulk toilet paper, towels, sheets, and any thing else that won't fit in the bathroom cabinets.
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