Hi.

I’ve just been over here fainting over the cost of windows for the last few weeks.  I do a lot of renovation projects for clients where we need to replace or add a handful of windows here and there, but rarely a whole house of windows, so I was ill-prepared for the quotes that have been coming in for the new house.

Of course, it doesn’t help things that I love natural light and windows.  Or that I want to build a new-old house that has windows that are historically accurate to 1919 but that offer the thermal efficiency and greatly-improved maintenance features of 2019.  Or that we have 60 windows.  Oops.

Meanwhile, Joshua is convinced that we need a fleet of farm machinery and all-terrain vehicles, which will cost as much or more than the windows.  (If you can’t already tell, the budgeting is going just swimmingly.)  Though we have nowhere to store such things at our currently house nor any sort of storage option on the property for the next 9 or 10 months, I receive photos almost daily of his finds on craigslist. He insists they are great deals and that we can’t possibly survive without them.

Here are a few highlights:

I must admit, I was intrigued by the “power dump” feature on this one.

No, really.

I mean, who doesn’t need a mini firetruck.

I was telling my girlfriends about all of these at brunch this past weekend and a few hours later I received this as a suggested farm vehicle from one of them:

I’m so lucky to have such supportive friends.