Troy was building the frame and setting the antique leaded glass window that I had bought about 20 years ago in Birmingham, while shopping with Gene and Melanie AND....the nail hit the corner of the window and .....yep...BROKE! the corner piece of glass. Troy felt soooo bad. He got on the phone and called a friend that he knew that did stain glass windows, here in Moulton. The man told him to bring it over so Chuck and Troy took the explorer so they could lay the window down in the back of the explorer on the carpet. Mr. Burch said it was no problem for him to fix it. When it came time to pick the window up, Troy asked Chuck if he would pick it up in the explorer....so off we went. ( Chuck wanted me to see all the glass stuff that Mr. Burch makes). We knocked on the door and Mr. Burch comes out and takes us to his work shop. When he showed us the window we couldn't even tell which corner had been broken. Chuck asked how much we owed him and he said " not a thing"! He said that Troy has done him a lot of favors and this was just one to pay him back. He then asked if we would please come inside and meet his wife, Gail. She was in the kitchen..." putting up some pears". Nothing doing, that Chuck and I each have a fork and taste the pears she had cooking in her crock pot. They sure were good! They have a huge pear tree and insisted that we pick all we wanted from it. I told her that I have a great recipe for " pear bread" and that I would drop it off to her the next time we were in town. Her kitchen was " blue" and she had some really pretty pottery dishes from Poland. She told me all about them and opened her cabinets so I could see all the pieces that she had collected. Mr. Burch had made a "blue rooster" out of glass and Chuck asked him to please make me one for my new blue kitchen. By the time we left with the window, we felt like we had known " The Burch's" all our lives. We were invited back any time and to come pick all the pears we ever wanted. Life is " wonderful" in a small town. Oh yeah....Troy got the window put into the bathroom with no problem this time and it looks so pretty. He sure was nervous doing it though. He keeps telling me he doesn't want to do anything to anything that is " OLD" any more....LOL. I told him that my wrought iron window box that is going under my bedroom window is at least 60 years old, but he can't break wrought iron.
Troy was building the frame and setting the antique leaded glass window that I had bought about 20 years ago in Birmingham, while shopping with Gene and Melanie AND....the nail hit the corner of the window and .....yep...BROKE! the corner piece of glass. Troy felt soooo bad. He got on the phone and called a friend that he knew that did stain glass windows, here in Moulton. The man told him to bring it over so Chuck and Troy took the explorer so they could lay the window down in the back of the explorer on the carpet. Mr. Burch said it was no problem for him to fix it. When it came time to pick the window up, Troy asked Chuck if he would pick it up in the explorer....so off we went. ( Chuck wanted me to see all the glass stuff that Mr. Burch makes). We knocked on the door and Mr. Burch comes out and takes us to his work shop. When he showed us the window we couldn't even tell which corner had been broken. Chuck asked how much we owed him and he said " not a thing"! He said that Troy has done him a lot of favors and this was just one to pay him back. He then asked if we would please come inside and meet his wife, Gail. She was in the kitchen..." putting up some pears". Nothing doing, that Chuck and I each have a fork and taste the pears she had cooking in her crock pot. They sure were good! They have a huge pear tree and insisted that we pick all we wanted from it. I told her that I have a great recipe for " pear bread" and that I would drop it off to her the next time we were in town. Her kitchen was " blue" and she had some really pretty pottery dishes from Poland. She told me all about them and opened her cabinets so I could see all the pieces that she had collected. Mr. Burch had made a "blue rooster" out of glass and Chuck asked him to please make me one for my new blue kitchen. By the time we left with the window, we felt like we had known " The Burch's" all our lives. We were invited back any time and to come pick all the pears we ever wanted. Life is " wonderful" in a small town. Oh yeah....Troy got the window put into the bathroom with no problem this time and it looks so pretty. He sure was nervous doing it though. He keeps telling me he doesn't want to do anything to anything that is " OLD" any more....LOL. I told him that my wrought iron window box that is going under my bedroom window is at least 60 years old, but he can't break wrought iron. 
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