Now that we have a screen door attached to the door opening between the mudroom and the garage (mentioned here), the regular door there spends quite a bit of time open in order to let the breeze flow through. But, we've noticed, it is not uncommon for there to be air pressure changes (with all the garage doors open) that 'suck' the mudroom door shut with a bang. Both defeating the purpose of having that screen door there, and startling us with the random loud noise.
Clearly, I needed to put some sort of doorstop against the mudroom door to hold it open. I looked around for something that would do (a few other doors have random clay sculptures made by DS2 in high school--as shown in this post) but didn't find anything suitably heavy to hold the door open yet not so bulky it would be hard to move out of the way when we want to shut the door nightly.
Then it hit me: I needed a rock. Rocks, we have tons of (ha ha, literally). Rocks of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Free for the picking out in the field. All I had to do was go look.
So one afternoon, I did. I wandered the field for a little bit and was soon rewarded with the perfect rock. Sorta flat on three edges, tall enough and heavy enough to hold the door, yet easy to nudge out of the way with your foot. And best of all, it is a bluish gray. Or grayish blue, depending on how you look at it.
I took it to the house, gave it a good scrubbing, and once dry, put it into place.
Perfect! It even kind of matches the colors in the vinyl flooring, LOL.
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