They don't make bullet-proof glass like they used to

Oops

We are a bit dispirited this evening.  The window seat is designed around a couple of pieces of very thick glass TJ picked up when the bank he works above upgraded their security windows.  

One of them fell and broke.  They are both non-standard sizes.  We've been able to order a new piece to match, but everything is delayed.  Also, expensive, and basically we've lost a day's progress.

All this time we thought the glass was bullet-proof because it came out of a bank.  We were going to bury it permanently in the walls, on the basis that nothing would break it.  Luckily we know now, so we have changed things so the glass can be removed and replaced. 

Like the flannel-flower windows, we've been storing this ex-bank glass for years.  Since it was "bullet-proof" (it really is very heavy) we haven't been the least careful with it - in fact, there's a piece from the same lot leaning up against the house.  It falls over every now and then, and we prop it back up.  But it had to break the day we wanted to put it in a wall.