You Have New Mailbox!

We got an official looking PS Form 4056 from our friendly letter carrier informing us our mailbox was too short. This came as no surprise, but it matched the neighbor's, so we felt no real hurry to replace it. It had been in service for many years, even customized with a wooden pull out drawer Frank made. But it swiveled on its post, and the flag wouldn't stay up, and our mail carrier threatened to stop delivering the mail. (Wait, is it really a threat to say you won't bring my bills to me? Let me think this over.) So we made a run to our neighborhood Lowe's and found one that suited our needs and a nice cedar post that might not rot before someone knocks it over when they misjudge the ice, or the curve, or both. It was probably our easiest home project to date, though at times I was concerned about my proximity to a powered saw blade. Everyone came out intact, and even the mail lady seemed happy Saturday, even though she had to come up the driveway to make her delivery, because we were in the middle of the job.

On a completely different subject, every house has an oddity or seven. John and I have noticed a strange phenomenon in ours: one particular section of The Longest Hallway in the World® seems to magically produce shards of safety glass. It's been doing this for several months now. The pieces are rarely larger than a fingernail, dull, and always found on the south side of the hallway, usually in the crevice where the carpet meets the wall. It's very strange. I think it must be a wormhole, a tunnel through space to a safety glass factory. I've decided to keep track of them to see just how many appear. So you'll see a new list on the left: Glass Shards the Wormhole has Produced. I'll add to it whenever we find a new one.

Exciting New Siding!

We finally did the dirty deed and bought new siding. There's still some little things to be done, a couple of fixtures that need to go back up, and the house numbers, that sort of thing, but for the most part, it's done, and it's gorgeous! They covered the soffits and fascia, and all the window trim, and installed new garage doors. We took the opportunity to make some room in the garage for cars too. Take a clicky look:

Pretty! (pops)
More pretty! (pops)
Detail work (pops)
More detail work (pops)

Our next plans are to win the lottery. ;)

Edit: We forced ourselves to clean out the garage by getting new garage doors. I wish I had before pictures so you could be suitably impressed. Well, just imagine a full Tetris grid, then make it three-dimensional. That pretty much covers it. We managed to get enough of it cleared out that we can actually park two cars there now!

Bay One, awaiting docking procedures.
Bay Two, docking complete.

I can't wait till the garage door openers are installed and I can roll up to the garage after work and say, "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."