We got us some windows, real beauties at that! These came from Erik, who sold us the land. Which initially made me a little suspicious, because I always thought Real Estate Agents were in the business of -selling- crap, not giving it away.

But here they are. One’s a big picture window, and the others are double-pane casement sorts. If we don’t get anything else — if this is the last crap we get — we can always stack these up house-of-cards style, and take turns squatting inside the resulting structure. Thanks, Erik.

Distance traveled: about five miles

How it got here: in the back of the bumpy truck. The picture window was too big for us to lay it flat in the bed of the truck, and we weren’t smart enough to bring any blankets or other cushioning for it.

So Scott had this brilliant idea of standing the thing up in the bed of the truck (I’m talking VERTICALLY) and rigging it that way with ratchet straps. Which seemed crazy: you simply don’t transport a window vertically unless you want the whole scene to end with Keanu Reeves riding a motorcycle through it. We later found out that Keanu was in Australia filming The Matrix Part Twelve at the time, which must be why we got it back safely.