Monday, July 14, 2003
Survived another weekend!
Around 2:30 Saturday afternoon, Caro observed with amazement we had already put in a very busy 8 hour day. It's true our Saturdays ar often rather active, but this one was a doozy even by our reckoning.
6:00 - 6:30 am: Stagger out of bed, get dressed, wonder why we worked so hard to create the monster of a child EAGER for action, crying "Hurry, people will get all our good stuff!"
6:30 - 9:45 am: Yard sales. A modest haul of what we call bread and butter stuff. No astonishing resale profit margin, but a decent return for the time/money investment. The one thing that delighted me most was getting a plastic pond and waterfall for $5, which we intend to be the cornerstone of our mega-necessary re-landscaping project. (Note to self--finish that web page about the sewer system installation!)
9:45 am: Stop at Daylight Donuts for healthy breakfast before heading to auction.
10:30 am: The auction was well underway when we arrived, but that wasn't a problem, as we had mainly come to look at the two windmills being offered amidst...well, a LOT of stuff. If the farm residents had thrown anything away in the past 50 years, you could not prove it by what was laid out to sell.
The windmills were pretty much EX-windmills which had either joined the choir celestial or were pinin' for the fjords, but that didn't matter to Mike, who enjoyed studying them carefully. He only asked if I was SURE we could not buy them a few (dozen) times, because even he could see the logistics problem of getting them home.
11:30 am - Heading in a more or less homeward direction, though we still had some more stops. Someone had told us there was a good church sponsored yard sale in Wiley, a small town about 11 miles up the road from Lamar. Sadly, it was over by the time we got there. We did find one lonely sale still running, where I got a VERY cool blue and gold wizard's hat, and Mike got a stuffed Pikachu. Which turned out to have the power of attacking with bursts of mold spores, more on which later....
12:15 pm: We checked out the Salvation Army store in Eads, another small local town. Mike and I had been there the month before, and I got a whole box of neat old scandalous cover paperbacks. The volunteer had brought them and promised to bring more on her next scheduled day, which was today. We were there, she was there...but she forgot the books. Oh well, another time.
1:30 pm: After a pause for lunch at Our Place Cafe in Eads, we drove back to Lamar and helped a friend who is *sniff* moving away to move books they don't want to haul to Texas over to Caro's Middle School, so she can get them to the Friends of the Library sale next month. Then we went to pick up my aforementioned fish pond, and that's where we came in, with Caro remarking on our full day.
I got very little accomplished the rest of the day, even after taking TWO much needed naps. Kind of good that I did nap, because the dang moldy Pokeman toy caused my overly picky lungs to hold a protest strike, and I didn't sleep well due to not being able to breathe off and on all night.
Today I was sort of groggy and stupid-feeling. I did accomplish a few tasks without sscrewing them up too badly, so I believe I will mark today as a success!
6:00 - 6:30 am: Stagger out of bed, get dressed, wonder why we worked so hard to create the monster of a child EAGER for action, crying "Hurry, people will get all our good stuff!"
6:30 - 9:45 am: Yard sales. A modest haul of what we call bread and butter stuff. No astonishing resale profit margin, but a decent return for the time/money investment. The one thing that delighted me most was getting a plastic pond and waterfall for $5, which we intend to be the cornerstone of our mega-necessary re-landscaping project. (Note to self--finish that web page about the sewer system installation!)
9:45 am: Stop at Daylight Donuts for healthy breakfast before heading to auction.
10:30 am: The auction was well underway when we arrived, but that wasn't a problem, as we had mainly come to look at the two windmills being offered amidst...well, a LOT of stuff. If the farm residents had thrown anything away in the past 50 years, you could not prove it by what was laid out to sell.
The windmills were pretty much EX-windmills which had either joined the choir celestial or were pinin' for the fjords, but that didn't matter to Mike, who enjoyed studying them carefully. He only asked if I was SURE we could not buy them a few (dozen) times, because even he could see the logistics problem of getting them home.
11:30 am - Heading in a more or less homeward direction, though we still had some more stops. Someone had told us there was a good church sponsored yard sale in Wiley, a small town about 11 miles up the road from Lamar. Sadly, it was over by the time we got there. We did find one lonely sale still running, where I got a VERY cool blue and gold wizard's hat, and Mike got a stuffed Pikachu. Which turned out to have the power of attacking with bursts of mold spores, more on which later....
12:15 pm: We checked out the Salvation Army store in Eads, another small local town. Mike and I had been there the month before, and I got a whole box of neat old scandalous cover paperbacks. The volunteer had brought them and promised to bring more on her next scheduled day, which was today. We were there, she was there...but she forgot the books. Oh well, another time.
1:30 pm: After a pause for lunch at Our Place Cafe in Eads, we drove back to Lamar and helped a friend who is *sniff* moving away to move books they don't want to haul to Texas over to Caro's Middle School, so she can get them to the Friends of the Library sale next month. Then we went to pick up my aforementioned fish pond, and that's where we came in, with Caro remarking on our full day.
I got very little accomplished the rest of the day, even after taking TWO much needed naps. Kind of good that I did nap, because the dang moldy Pokeman toy caused my overly picky lungs to hold a protest strike, and I didn't sleep well due to not being able to breathe off and on all night.
Today I was sort of groggy and stupid-feeling. I did accomplish a few tasks without sscrewing them up too badly, so I believe I will mark today as a success!
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