Oodles of Glass

We have several words in the english language to describe a large unquantifiable amount of something. Have you ever wondered how much glass it takes to make an arcadia door? Lots. Oodles. Gobs. Heaps. Piles. Plenty. Scads. Tons. Fortunately this was safety glass, and shattered without all of the dangerous shards.

So how did this come about, you ask? Let me explain. When I moved into this house a year ago, the backyard was nothing but mud and tall weeds. We have since planted some sod around the back door area, and winter rye grass throughout the rest of the yard. We are geting ready to move out, and although our original walkthrough says that the backyard was all weeds and mud, and that we could leave it that way, I was taught to leave things in better condition than how I found them. So I decided to mow the lawn and get the backyard cleaned up for the next renters. As I was mowing with our bagless, mulching mower, I ran over a rock. It made a good clunking sound, and spit it out on the side. I thought to myself, "Great, a rock is going to ruin my lawnmower or go through the arcadia door. (This happened to us when I was a kid.) I'd better turn the mower around so that it spits things in the other direction. Wouldn't that be fabulous if a couple of weeks before we move, we have to replace a window because we were trying to leave the house in better condition than we found it? That would be just my luck. I can just see the blog entry now."

It was at this point that I looked over at the arcadia door, too late, and noticed that there was a small nickel-sized hole surrounded by crackly spider webs. The cracks very slowly but surely spread over the entire window, and I had to get the broom and knock the glass out in order to sweep it up. Although this is rather inconvenient and will undoubtedly be expensive, I can still choose to count our blessings. This was dual paned safety glass, and (1) only the outside pane was broken, so it (2) doesn't have to be urgently replaced, (3) didn't get any glass in the house, and (4) no one was injured. I'm hoping that we can replace just the pane of glass, and not have to pay for a whole new door. We'll see.