{"id":23282,"date":"2010-03-12T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2016-09-13T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T19:13:12","slug":"feeling-like-a-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/feeling-like-a-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Like a Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to get up ‘early’ today to go to Home Depot before it started to… snow. So, I was delighted when I was awoken at 9:30 by a knock at the door. It surely had to be the mail carrier with my Milepost<\/a>, and it was!<\/p>\n

Off I went to Home Depot to return the sixth box of Allure<\/a>. I also wanted to price lumber and supplies for my last few carpentry projects:<\/p>\n

-dishwasher counter: need plywood for the interior divisions<\/p>\n

-‘tunnel’ for the furnace duct: need plywood<\/p>\n

-ladder for the loft: need 2’x4’s and something thinner for the rungs<\/p>\n

-secret project: a small piece of paneling<\/p>\n

-trim<\/p>\n

I came home with:<\/p>\n

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sanded plywood (two pieces), perfect for the inside of a cabinet and creating a tunnel for a furnace duct<\/p><\/div>\n

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fancy hemlock trim in short pieces, perfect for a home with short walls (enough for the dressing room and the kitchen, at least)<\/p><\/div>\n

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a large piece of paneling, perfect for my secret project (and probably WAY more than I need)<\/p><\/div>\n

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pallets are made with solid wood held together with a few nails, perfect for making a ladder<\/p><\/div>\n

You can probably see where I’m going with this. All these supplies cost me NOTHING. I pulled them out of a dumpster! Of course, I asked if I could do this and Home Depot was happy to have someone haul away their trash for them! There is absolutely nothing ‘wrong’ with anything I brought home, not even a speck of dirt on it. I have a huge piece of high-quality paneling in perfect condition, two big pieces of sanded 1\/2″ plywood in perfect condition, and a hill of short pieces of high-quality fancy hemlock trim, plus the pallets!<\/p>\n

I need more pallets for some other projects, but this was all I could safely carry home today, and the best of what was available in that dumpster. The other pallets were a bit grungy. I’ll check back at Home Depot in a few days to see if there’s anything new available to me. I’d love to find more of that trim!<\/p>\n

I’m chomping at the bit get going with the dishwasher counter, but there is no way I can cut up the big piece of plywood in this weather, so I will go start on something else, maybe the trim or the loft ladder.<\/p>\n

But before I do that, I’m going to watch the snow fall and melt as it hits the ground. Snow. After weeks of near tee-shirt weather. This place is strange.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to get up ‘early’ today to go to Home Depot before it started to… snow. So, I was delighted when I was awoken at 9:30 by a knock at the door. It surely had to be the mail carrier with my Milepost, and it was! Off I went to Home Depot to return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,6,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}