Material things are easy to write about. Okay.. you say, how could you possibly get excited about a new garage door? We have lived for the last 8 years (of 20 in this home) with a garage door that while it worked fine, was literally falling apart. I had patched it with pine trim boards to “decorate” and cover up the deteriorating press-board so much it was getting heavy. It was as they say butt-ugly. So Susan has always wanted a door that looked like barn doors with windows. I agreed. So we caught a sale at Menards and got the door we wanted. I really didn’t read the ad and was surprised when they gave us a free opener to sweeten the sale. I recall saying something intelligent like “really?” When it came in we had lined up an installer. Not that I couldn’t do it myself but never doing one it would have taken me an entire weekend and this guy knocked it out in four hours, including the opener. I also wasn’t crazy about working with those springs either so it was a good deal.
Now, the funny thing about this is you rarely get a chance to see and admire the door yourself. It’s really for neighbors and folks passing by. Think about it… when we are outside the door is up and out of sight. And it really looks silly to stand outside starring at your closed door. It does look great when we pull up in the drive and then - it disappears again..
Finally the sweetest part was cutting that old door into small pieces adding closure to all those years of patching the damn thing together…
Posted by: Gene Nichols