Adding to the pallet stack

I thought I was sunk, today. It was a good day, overall. My Sunday morning pancakes didn’t turn out as fluffy as I would like them, but they were good. The bacon was left in the oven too long and almost burnt, which set one of my kids off crying, no joke. Nevertheless, the taste was good and they weren’t burnt, just “almost.”  It’s the first morning after setting the clocks one hour forward, when I constantly feel the rush of the day. It seemed as soon as breakfast was over, it was pushing noon! We were planning on taking in a movie, “Oz, the Great andPowerful”. It was going to be the family’s first feature length 3D movie. We gathered ourselves together and headed out.

The plan was to go to the movies, about a half hour south, then turn around and travel an hour north to get some additional pallets. Everyone enjoyed the movie. We drove to the factory from last week only to find the gates were closed. We could not get any pallets. We still had a bit to do in town, so started heading for the other end of town to go to Lowes. While I drove, my wife was looking at her iPhone. She mentioned someone had free pallets, text if interested. I said, “Great,” and handed her my own iPhone. She sent the text and we went on our merry way. We went to Lowe’s, a sporting goods store and dinner. We did not receive a reply text.

We were home almost a twenty minutes when my phone indicated I had a text message. The phone number with the pallets replied he (she?) had 10 available. I immediately expressed interest and the back and forth of texting commenced. I was not going to go back to town, tonight. Tuesday seemed like the likely day we could pick up the pallets. My wife was to be in town, and might be able to get most of them. After a few minutes more, we found out the person on the other end of the conversation was only a few miles from our house! We made some quick arrangements and we left posthaste to get some more fencing material.

After a quick ten-minute drive, we ended up with eleven pallets stuffed in the van. It was getting dark, so we decided to forego piling any on the rooftop luggage rack. Two of the pallets are double sized. Another has been tagged, by my wife, Faith, as “looking like a gate.” Because we were so close to home, we stacked them to the roof level, left the minivan’s rear hatch open and drove home to unload. We also took with us the promise of more pallets from the same place. They own their own business, have pallets they need removed and get pallets in on a regular basis. Hooray! Another repeat source for pallets. I had a sense of satisfaction driving home while enjoying the clouds against the darkening sky. I had been worried we would not add to our stack. After unloading in the dark, I looked to the stars and I said a word of thanks as I finished sweeping out the back of the van.

We have 33 pallets. If they are all approximately 40”x48”, I have close to 120 feet of fencing that will be 4 foot tall. Our next step will be to begin preparing the pallets. My kids have seen online pictures of fences of pallets that are painted bright colors. Two of the three want to paint our fence. Why not, right? We live out in the county. The next house up the road used to be salmon pink. There’s another further on painted yellow. I guess people like to stand out from the green and brown of the trees.