Wider Is Better....
.....IN garage doors, that is.
This is what our garage looked like before. Certainly a large enough garage to hold both a car and some storage. But....as you can see, it was constucted with two very narrow doors. And as my old Infiniti can attest to, I seem to have a problem judging distance in close quarters. Enough said. Suffice it to say, I never attempted putting that car in the garage. We just left it in the driveway, which was fine. Except the Florida sun tends to do a job on cars.
So you can imagine my concern when we purchased Irma (Oh, yeah....that's what I named my new Infiniti. The old one was Ivan) and I had to leave my new "baby" out in the elements. So....hubby gave it some thought and decided we could fix the problem. Here's his solution.....
Doesn't it look great? We had a contractor come out and make it ready for a full size 16 ft. garage door. He even put in some nice windows to the right, which gives great light in daytime in the garage. The garage door company came out last Friday and got the door installed and even my new Genie is up and running.
Much easier for Terri to manuver Irma into her place of honor now. And chances are her shiny exterior will stay intact, minus scrapes.
So now I'm wondering......do you have a garage? And if you do, do you actually use it or just leave your car parked outside?
ADDENDUM TO YESTERDAY'S POST: I want to thank all of you for your very in-depth, insightful, comments. I really appreciated it and found it very helpful. I'm convinced.....I have THEE best group of readers around.
Also.....Beginning this week, I'll no longer be doing the Thursday Thirteen. While I did enjoy it, I found it to be extremely time-consuming. I wanted to get around and read so many of the others and it was becoming more and more difficult to do so. Therefore, I'll let the TT site know I'll be dropping out, and I'll be removing the logos on my sidebar. The other reason for stopping is that in all honesty, I wasn't feeling "fulfilled" as a writer typing up a list of 13 things each week.....I was bored and if "I" was bored, I didn't want to take the chance of boring my reader. But not to worry.....I'll come up with some drivel brilliant post for Thursdays.
I'm off to practice getting Irma into her new home. See you tomorrow......
Terri DuLong
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We have a garage it';s full of junk lol theres 5 bikes even though there is only four of us in the house lots of tins of old paint and my dad's power tools which he uses once in a blue moon.
My car lives parked up on the curb outside apparently you're not supposed to but we dont have much of a driveway so where else are we meant to park? lol
nicer to bring the groceries into a pretty house.
I too discovered Shalimar in the 1960's --I love it and the reformulation didn't bother me at all. None of the Guerlain reformulations changed the scents much for me they still smell soooo goood. Like the parfum best tho. I plan to do a post on Shalimar , but it is going to be an extravagant one, so I want to wait for the right day... Maybe make a collage or paint a portrait of a bottle ... it deserves more than a casual post.
We can't park our SUV in the garage right now because of all the remodeling stuff, but normally I do park it in there. A garage sale the weekend after the next should free up space for me to get in there again.
We have leather seats and it gets too hot if I don't park in the garage during our 9 month long summertime season. ;)
Hub remodeled the garage so that I can get the car in with very little room to spare. As a result, I've ...uh,...sort of nicked the walls a few times, LOL.
I stopped doing TT13 for the same reasons as you!
We have an 1896-era home with an old horse barn. Since my husband drives a van, it does not fit. My little car would fit if he would clean out the garage.
Via Michele,
Mike
I also hear you about the Thirsday Thirteen. Your rationale for stopping mimics mine for not getting involved. I know I could do memes and blog links and exchanges and all sorts of other things to boost traffic. But that wouldn't be me. I started my blog because I'm a writer and a photographer. TT never seemed to fit the spirit of the thing.
If that makes sense. Either way, my gut says I should simply write what I feel. And whoever comes, comes. I'm glad you have chosen to point your browser my way.
PS I understand what you mean about Thursday 13: that is why I chose not to do it actually. It is also the reason that I really don't like to do memes or ask others to do them.
Yes, I have a garage and my car is in it every day and night...I only park out on the street if I have some strange thing going on inmy garage and that only happens at very rare intervas...like maybe three times in all these years...! Your new garage door is BEAUTIFUL!