Friday night, Terry finished the door to the basement closet.
Here he is hanging the slider for the door.
This is the door we got for $20 at the salvage yard.
Terry sanded it down, and painted it white.
And finally, this closet/pantry is no longer an eyesore.
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Time for a road trip...
On Saturday we went to a couple of estate sales on Grosse Ile,
and on the back we decided to take the scenic route.
We drove down Jefferson Avenue,
all the way from Grosse Ile to downtown detroit.
Turns out, it was not very "scenic".
Piles of "PetCoke".
Strange gated industrial areas.
Power plants.
Alleys to nowhere.
Boarded up shells of once beautiful buildings.
Giant industries behind barbed wire fences.
Historic Fort Wayne... crumbling.
We did speak with a lovely young lady
who sat in the guard booth at Fort Wayne,
and she gave us a little info about what's going on there.
It is number one on our list this spring,
to go for a visit here.
Can't even remember what this empty old building is...
Coming up to the Ambassador Bridge...
Hard to see through all of this crap.
There she is through the rearview...
We spent a few minutes on reflections and reminiscences,
of fun trips to Canada...
and then reminded ourselves
that we can't even go over that bridge to Canada anymore,
unless we go through the pricey new process
of "driver's license enhancement".
Pretty church.
Terry was driving too fast to get the name.
Why can't he read my mind?
What is this?
The old train station, or police station, or whatever...
Some rich person bought it,
and has no immediate plans for it,
so to appease complaints about the condition of the building,
they put 50 million "cheapass" windows in it.
It looks ridiculous.
Coming into the heart of downtown Detroit.
Casino? Nope, not today, not ever.
I might as well throw my money out the car window.
The two iconic coney islands in Detroit need professional security now...
Sad.
Coming up to Ford Field and Comerica Park.
There it is. Tiger Stadium.
Always gives me hope for summer.
Coming down Woodward Avenue.
What a mess!
The lightrail project (stupid),
They might as well bring back the horse and carriage while they're at it.
Another cool church,
but Terry refused to block traffic so I could get a good look at it.
What's wrong with him?
Finally, the end of our journey...
Eight mile and Woodward.
There is the "State Fair Apartments",
where my Grandma used to live,
and we visited every weekend.
Looks empty, but I'm not sure.
This road trip was fun, sad, enlightening;
surely not dull.
Fun to not take the freeway for a change...
Sad that miles and miles of riverfront are off limits...
Enlightening to the challenges that the city of Detroit faces...
and never a dull moment with my sweetie pie.
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