My meager offering for today’s Thursday Doors is a single gate I found leading to a property backing onto an urban trail I was traveling a few weeks ago.
It ticked all the right buttons – a door (of sorts), unusual, and it appeals to my need of organization and order.
Thursday Doors is a weekly photo feature normally hosted by Norm Frampton, but he is on a much-needed vacation, so this week’s hostess is Manja at The Mexi Movie. Be sure to check out her post. She always has a great collection of doors from Slovenia and Italy.
My Life Lived Full 
Best gate ever!
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I think you need one of those too 🙂
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What a creative gate!! Great find Joanne. 🙂
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Thanks! I wish I had that kind of creative eye.
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What an unusual gate. I love it.
janet
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Thanks 🙂
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How unique. I love it. Knowing the penalty before the crime is not a bad idea. 🙂
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The question is, how many people don’t even bother to read the sign? 🙂
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Love this, both your photo and the warning on the gate. Everything in life should come with clear instructions about what to do, and the penalty for not doing them. Brilliant.
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I ditto Ally’s comment ~ here’s to clear instructions and well defined penalties. Fun find!
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You are so right! Half the battle in life is understanding the rules. How much different it would be if everything came with clear instructions and consequences … I might have made an effort to avoid developing a debilitating love of chocolate 😉
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While packing for our evacuation from Irma’s path, I remembered to bring ALL the dark chocolate . . . for medicinal purposes!!!
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Hahaha!! You had all your priorities in the right place. Chocolate can solve many of the world’s problems 🙂
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Now this is such a cool gate and even cooler is that warning post on it!! Great find!!
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I love it when I encounter something truly different … and this one definitely fit the bill 🙂
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Oops, finishes was originally “fun wishes!” Silly cellphone! 😊😀
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I like wooden wagon wheels in almost any form, Joanne! Gates are definitely doors to other places. . . I liked this silver strip with ample fine and warning attached.
Smiles and finishes sent your way. 😊 🏤 🌻
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I like wagon wheels too – especially when they are used creatively like this 🙂
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They just seem so homespun and country restaurant or garden-y. 😀 This definitely is a creative use!
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This photo fuels the imagination in all sorts of ways! Great ‘Thursday Doors’ post!!
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This is when I wish I was a story teller. Sometimes a photo just begs to have a story written about it 🙂
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You ARE a storyteller. A very talented one!!
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Oh, that’s really kind … but I compare myself to so many great bloggers and know that my way with words doesn’t come even close.
Isn’t that the way though? We always compare ourselves to others rather than simply accepting our own abilities as is.
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Now that is a different door. Perhaps one of the most clever re-use and recycle themes I have seen!
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It certainly is the most unusual use of a wagon wheel I’ve ever seen. I just love the mind of creative people!
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*warranted* 🙂
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Awesome gate. What was behind the gate that warrented such a huge fine?
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Nothing extraordinary that I could see … just a pretty, well-kept backyard … but the sign is priceless 🙂
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Yep 🙂
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Now that’s a cool gate!
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I really must go back and figure out how the gate opens. Giving it a quick look, it wasn’t obvious, but now my curiosity is getting more and more piqued.
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It looked like you just walk around it to me. 🤔
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I agree. I think you can.
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I’ll be in trouble just trying to calculate how much forty shillings would be in today’s money, and then forget to close the gate…
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Did you shut and fasten the gate…..and then run like hell?? I think this is great, Joanne.
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I was just thinking that I should go back and figure out how to open the gate. Looking at it the first time, it wasn’t obvious and now my curiosity is getting the better of me 😉
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I would substitute “meager” with “meaningful.” – Marty
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Thanks 🙂
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What a cool gate! 40 shillings is a lot better than 40 lashes which what I thought is was leading to.
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Ouch! 40 lashes would be severe punishment!!
On the other hand, if leaving the gate opened resulted in all the horses or cows getting out, I would imagine that’s exactly how the landowner would feel a reasonable punishment should be 😉
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Certainly a unique gate. Works for me. I don’t think any warning was required, I like this post.
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Thanks 🙂
Short, but sweet!
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What fun…did you try opening this gate…it looks tricky to do and then if you couldn’t fasten it shut properly you’d be in a whole heap of trouble…guess you just took a snap and walked on by. 🙂
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I did just take a pic and then leave. I looked at it briefly, but it wasn’t obvious how the gate opened. Now my curiosity is starting to get the better of me 😉
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Lovely gate, shillings were used in the UK until decimalisation, 20 to the £1, not sure what the Kenyan shilling would be worth. 🙂
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Thanks – that’s consistent with what I found when I tried to look it up.
When trying to convert that to Canadian dollars …. well, let’s just say it comes dust 😉
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I remember shillings. I only got sixpence pocket money as a child, so that fine would have been 80 weeks pocket money gone. 😯 Great photo Joanne.
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Uh-oh … now I would need to know what sixpence is to work out this math.
Ouch – brain hurts!!
At any rate, 80 weeks sounds like a pretty harsh penalty!
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Wonderful door. Personally, the threat of a consequence does it for me!
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Especially financial penalties. Ouch – they always hurt!
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Where do I find a gate like that – perfect for the barn!!
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Oooo – yes, it would be perfect 🙂
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Very creative! I love unusual gates, Joanne, and often wish I could weld. 😀 I should try – I’d probably end up with another fun “disaster post.”
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Fabulous! I would so leave this gate open & watch for the fun to begin!
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hahahaha!! Always a disrupter in the crowd! 😉
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And with a warning like this I imagine you shut the gate tight?
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I didn’t even try to open it!! Sometimes the obvious just eludes me
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awesome gate and what a good idea
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Some people are just so creative in using things in an unobvious way.
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Yes / agree – some do recycle – reuse- repurpose better – 😉
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Although I also love organization and order, I think I’d be tempted to leave the gate open just to see what happened. Great door/gate!
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may I chime in here – this is what I was thinking – the sign sure makes a statement and gets ya thinking – hah
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I would have had to figure out how to open it because it wasn’t obvious.
Now I’m feeling bad that I didn’t even try … obviously I fail as a rebel 😉
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I love the sign!
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I agree 🙂
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I like meager! The skinny on something is fashionable now, isn’t it? It’s what I do all the time:) You’re right is can stand proudly on it’s own as a “door?”
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Thanks, Joanne, for this gate and an interesting inscription. Almost makes me think, right… that’s kind of cheap, let’s go for it!
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In today’s dollars, yes – it is cheap. I’m not going to suggest to them that they should be raising their prices 😉
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Home run for being unique and handsome. I love it. 🙂
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I don’t have 40 shillings. Hell, I don’t even know what a shilling is. Guess I better close that gate.
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Good plan! I’m still trying to figure out a shilling too.
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Now Joanne… that is not meager at all. I love the old wheel as a gate, and the composition is beautiful with the flowers in the background. What is it about that kind of wheel? They’re so appealing to me. I guess it makes me think of moving forward. Have a thriving Thursday!
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Thanks 🙂 Wagon wheels really appeal to me too and this one is certainly used in a unique way. The sign on it was just icing on the cake 🙂
Hope your Thursday is a good one too!
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Forty shillings ? As my TV hero Ralph Kramden would say “a mere bag of shells Alice” 😜 Great shot Joanne
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All the same, I think I’m going to make sure the gate is closed 😉
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Forty shillings, eh? I could google that, or maybe I’ll ask Dan to devise a conversion calculator.
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… a staggering 48 cents! Although without any pennies now, let’s just call it an even 50 cents. Cash please, exact change is appreciate.
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oops – I just realized this is Kenyan shillings. Hmmm – now I have no clue 😦
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Sometimes meager is good, like in this case. Love the wheel and its warning sign, plus, it’s a pretty picture! 🙂
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That’s what I thought too. It was different enough to stand on its own 🙂
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