About a week ago, Ashleigh came around the corner by the house and clipped the neighbor's mailbox with her passenger side mirror. The mailbox was unscathed - the mirror was a complete loss. One would say she swerved when her passenger (David) looked up and yelled out that she was too close. Someone else would say he yelled out only after she had already hit it... Whatever the case may be, the mirror was wrecked. I tried to glue it in place and then went redneck and used some black duct tape to hold it but we knew at the first snowstorm or parking lot door bump, it would fall off. So off to the junkyard I went. None to be found. Bought one from eBay for $34 including shipping! So, in the spirit of my brother and niece (Lowell and Katrina), Ashleigh and I went to work on it together. It went surprisingly smooth. Of course two of the three bolts stripped out of the old mirror but we got around that and were able to pop the new one in. The power function works fine, it looks brand new, and there were no parts leftover. Success!
There is some life commentary to be made here I suppose. About how some things have happened and have been left behind, out of view and forgotten. Or perhaps that some situations are coming up from behind and we just haven't seen them yet. Or it may be that at times looking back on things, experiences may be clearer than at the time you went through them. But that is not always the case. I have plenty of questions about things in the past and why they took the turns they did. On the other hand, I know that it is all part of the Plan and everything happens for a reason. I may not know it, may not see it, or it may just be out of view. But it's there.
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