The top picture is of one of our chaise lounge chairs from the pool area that awaits its fate in the dumpster. There is no way the repair cost would approach the new cost of this chaise. If nothing else its parts are of value. Yesterday, I visited Castaways and paid $1 for a Diawa reel. It didn't seem to work, but I have three others of the same model so the parts would be of value to me. When I cleaned the reel, it did work after all. Somehow I see a parallel here.
The bottom picture is of the concrete pad for the mailboxes that are to be installed.