Check That!
On Easter Sunday Kevin removed our storm door due to hinges that rusted through. Can’t do much on a Sunday when it was realized that the threshold also needed to be replaced. The wood was totally rotten. It was a very good thing that we still had the skeleton key for the ancient inside wooden door. Dennis and I got very good at using the old key.
Today was the day that we could get the new storm door on. Carpenters in St. James are becoming harder to nail down. I stayed totally out of the way and let Dennis do the straw-bossing . . . none of which was needed. Mark used green treated lumber and rebuilt the entire threshold for a new metal one for the final cover. Kevin had put in a door at their place, resulting in a spare part to the tune of the metal threshold that Mark could use. What remains is for us to paint the exposed wood of the new boxed sill complete with enclosed ends. 
Check that off of our list! The new door is a Larson. I must say it’s not quite the same quality as the old one. Is anything that we purchase new today like what the old was even with the appreciated market value! Only the bottom pane can be raised to enjoy a screened breeze. There is no lock that can be used when we leave our home. It’s a good thing that we will have that handy dandy skeleton key for our inside wooden door. Grant it, we bought the door at our local lumberyard. There may well have been choices had we traveled out of town. Dennis feels very strongly about shopping locally and I think we did just fine with the door that we now have installed. If this one lasts half as long as the previous one, someone else will need to think on it.
Dennis gladly paid the fellow with a good tip. Dennis even had a box of shells to share with Mark for one of Mark’s guns. It doesn’t hurt to let these repair fellows know they are appreciated. As I mentioned earlier, carpenters for small jobs are not easily found. It turned out that Mark had a personal day to use or loose from his job as a UPS route driver. Dennis now has Mark’s phone number in his stash.