Met daughter Katharine and we cruised three large yards of sliced stone (mostly muddy limestone), concrete pavers and other landscaping materials. Nothing inspired us. Katharine is on her way back to New York. I haul the incredibly heavy old front door, stuffed in the back of the Corolla, back to Fargo. The outside was badly weathered, and the inside has the wrong finish, even if the finish is in pretty good shape.

So I had it stripped by “Strippers on Selby”. I have had only two doors done there, for the stripping costs $200+ per door—it’s considerably cheaper to have students strip by hand.