I'm not ashamed to admit I did a little garbage picking on our walk this morning. I noticed the neighbor was trashing this set of vertical blinds and I couldn't resist taking a closer look. Not that I want vertical blinds. We already have multiple sets at the condo. The problem is this tiny little clip that holds each blind to the carriage that slides along the track. The clips tend to break, particularly after decades of sun exposure. This set appeared to have the same clip, so I tried to pull a few to take to Florida. No luck...they absolutely wouldn't come out of the carriage. No worries, though, I just cut the lines and pulled several carriages out. I don't know if I'll be able to somehow use the clip independent of these carriages, or if I'll need to replace entire carriages to fix broken clips, but at least I can try. We'll see.

I didn't realize it until I posted the photo about the blind clips, but Denny also gave us this compost bin yesterday, which he pulled from his neighbors garbage. He talked to her about it...she was discarding two of them for some reason. She never used them! So he took one and gave one to us. Another great find.