I finally finished my 4 week project of getting the garage door opener installed. We purchased the garage door opener before we closed on the house with the intent to get it installed before we started painting. I thought installing the opener would be a fairly simple project, it turned out to be a nightmare. I first installed it too far back while trying to keep it away from having the door hit the rail as it opened. Then I reinstalled it against the wall but then the door would not open because of the rail. After that I got tired of messing with it so I tried to call Sears to have them come and finish the job. The lady I talked to there told me they wouldn’t work on it since I had already opened it, it was too much of a liability for whatever reason. So I decided just to finish it and bought a couple of quick-turn brackets to install at the top of the door to help it open lower. Everything went well with those and after I got them installed I mounted the garage door opener on the ceiling and hooked it up to the door. Everything actually went fairly smoothly with it for once! After I finished that I got the garage all cleaned out and we put Jodi’s car in it.

Yesterday we also bought a new grill. We had a 10% off coupon for Home Depot and thought we would use it for that. We went to Home Depot and looked at what they had, and they didn’t have very many grills put together and on display so it was difficult to see what they had available. We decided to leave Home Depot and went to Costco to see what they had, they only had two grills and they were both more money than we wanted to spend. After that we went over to Lowe’s and checked out their selection. We liked what they had and decided to buy one there, it is a BBQ Grillware brand, 3 burners, electric igniter, and a side burner. They also had a deal going where they provided free assembly, which meant we ended up getting of one the grills outside on display, and a free exchange for a full bottle of propane, which meant we had to buy a new empty bottle to exchange for a used, full bottle. It was a pretty good deal, saved us time from putting the grill together and about $20 on the propane costs.