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By: Decomposed in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (3)
Sun, 26 May 19 12:54 AM | 65 view(s)
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I intended to spend the day assembling the new shed, or at least repairing its base. Instead I spent most of the day going to garage sales and then out to pick up these wall panels my wife found on Facebook marketplace… for free! See photos below. You are looking at 17 4 x 8 wall panels that the "seller" had retrieved from a JCPenney store that was throwing them out. There's some dirt because they sat outside for a quite a while, but there's very little rot. These should allow me to make quick work of any future shed, chicken coop or wood shed that I might build in the coming year. The day didn't go as planned but was still productive.

The main garage sale finds today included a nice wood table with two chairs that can replace the cheap poker table and yard chairs that we've been using inside as our dinner table for the last 14 year ($30), a set of eight uncirculated Sacajawea dollars ($8 ), three unopened sacks of red mulch ($1.25 each), four cans of various pegboard hooks ($1 total), four cherry tomato plants ($0.25 each), what APPEARS to be a lightly used fertilizer spreader being sold by a guy who was in the lawn care business ($3), a FULL bucket of casters (the wheels you see under hardware such as movers' dollies) ($1), and a lightly used pair of BROWNING (as in the gun manufacturer) hunting boots ($5). Then there was the usual assortment of odds and ends: Books, a roll of garden fencing, etc.

There was an incredible (and I don't use that word lightly) coffee table that the seller had made himself. He's an 88-year-old carpenter who has lived here his entire life. We shot the breeze for a while and I told him how spectacular I thought it was. He said he made it from a 300-year-old workbench that he found in the cellar of a local home, and he attached railcar-like wheels to its base to make it distinctive. This thing would destroy a wood floor if you actually tried using those wheels indoors, but you'd never do that. It's a HEAVY piece of furniture that wouldn't easily roll under any circumstances. The asking price was $160.

I told him I would take it in a heartbeat if I had the storage. After hearing about what we're doing on Property #2, they said "It's near the end of the day and we'll be ending our sale. Why don't you come see us when you have your house built?" LOL. I told them it would be a couple of years, forgetting that I'll probably have the barn ready THIS year.

So, I instead took down their phone number and fully intend to buy that table when the barn's second floor is available. I'll post a photo when I do. I think it's a spectacular and beautiful historic piece that I'll likely be getting for a song.




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