Saturday Drive

We went for a drive on Saturday and walked for awhile up in the forest. It was nice. Gary found our summer home. What do you think?
On the way home we spotted some old antique Russian window frames that were just sitting outside in front of a house, so we stopped and had our driver go to the door and ask him if he would sell them to us. He had four big old window frames and sold them all to us for about 30 dollars. He had put up new siding and windows on his old dacha and had no use for the old window frames. Gary was delighted. We put them on top of the car and then went to a car wash and had them washed and then he took them to work and laid them out to dry. He wants to hang them in his office and put work assignments in them. The Russians who work for him think he is nuts! But you know they really are beautiful old hand made artistic things. The russians don't appreciate that stuff yet, but I think someday they will because all the new things that are going up are just plain without the decorative work. In fifty years all the old windows will disappear. After picking up the windows we spotted smoke coming from the street up the road and went to see what it was and it was an abandoned kindergarten school that had started on fire. All the locals were starting to gather around. No one was doing anything about it though. I guess there is not much you can do when you have to pump the water up from the local well. As we left, the fire trucks all started to come so we were glad to get out of the way. Then we passed a store that makes gravestones and Gary decided to stop by. They etch the dead man's face on the granite and put it on the stone. Gary wants to buy one and take it home. Kind of morbid, but they are nice. He particularly liked the sales lady. He thought she belonged in that job. What you think?