Finally!

Did you ever get a savings coupon, with an expiration date, that you felt you could not pass up? We recently did. The $200.00 off coupon with no interest for a year from Home Depot was too much to pass up, especially since we've had our eye on a pretty nice Mennonite-built outbuilding all summer. So, coupon in hand, husband and I made our way to the nearest Home Depot store and ordered the building on August 30. This was just one week before the coupon expired. The papers we signed when we bought it said the building had to be built according to our specs and we would receive it three to four weeks later.

We excitedly went home and husband worked diligently preparing the site. And then we waited and waited for the delivery. After many phone calls to the company, the truck finally showed up at our door yesterday, six weeks after we ordered it. Finally! We were really excited.




One guy delivered our building, offloaded it onto our carefully prepared site, and used the gadget in the above photo called a mule (sort of like a miniature forklift) to exactly position it. The entire process took less than an hour.

We are very pleased with our new building and find it accomplishes two things. First, we now have enough storage to get all our equipment out of our garage, and second, it successfully blocks the view of our back neighbor's house.

The only problem is that husband says that between the pool and the outbuilding, our back yard now looks like a trailer park.

Time to go to the lumber yard to purchase material for a ramp and to think of some creative landscaping to soften the view. Alice, MrsGreenThumb, and Kerri, where are you when I need you?