A Smashing Success
Today I was smashing windows out of a very old sash panel. It's hard to explain what these panels were (there are at least three more of them to work on) but they've been around for ages, and have not been in use for somewhere around 10 years. My husband had thought he could use them to make a greenhouse for me, because he knew how much I enjoy gardening. But he was never able to do it, and I have no idea how he had thought he would do it. Without his input, no one else knows how to do what he had in mind, so it's up to me to get rid of them.
The trash collectors told me that they wouldn't take any window panels with glass in them. One of my sons told me how to carefully smash the window panes.
I put down an old sheet, then a thick pad of old newspapers. I put the window on that and covered it with an old sweatshirt and broke the glass with a hammer. Then I carefully picked up the paper and slid the broken glass into a collection box. The trash collectors will take a box of broken glass.
This old sashwork had 21 panes of glass. I really hated to break all that glass up, but it was no good to anyone. There were no takers for it, so I set to work smashing. I have successfully gotten all that glass out of there without any serious harm to myself, --just a couple tiny glass slivers in my thumb, but I got them out easily.
All that bending and hammering and heaving that big sashwork of windows around was good exercise. I'm still building up my muscles. I can say with good conscience that my work today was a smashing success!
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