Friday night after work I picked up some deli sandwiches for dinner on the way home. Gin and I ate, then went over to Jean’s house to pick up some of her yard sale items. That’s right, we had another yard sale this past weekend. Jean had several milk crate boxes and an iron table with glass top. It didn’t take long to get that stuff over to our house and unloaded on the porch. Once we were home, Gin started checking all of our items for proper pricing while I vacuumed up the leaves in the front yard with the lawnmower. The headlights on the mower really helped get things done. After the lawn work, I went to the large out building to prepare some of the items stored inside, for the sale. Jessica and her mom, Debbie, arrived a little later on to drop off some of their stuff. Once we had their trucks unloaded, I went to the grocery store to get the lunch items for Saturday.
Since it was my birthday Saturday, I decided to sleep in. So, I was up at 5:30 and by 6:15 I was loading up the trailer with everything I could get on it. Gin started moving stuff from inside the house, to the porch. Around here we start our yard sales around 8:00 and go until whenever. We don’t put any signs up until we are set up and ready to sell.
At 8:00 I put 2 signs up, one at each end of the property by the street. Most of you who have been here know that we get a lot of traffic. This means that advertising in the paper is unnecessary. People ride by and see a car or 12 parked out front and all of a sudden there is a flurry of shoppers. This is good for the economy. Just think perfect strangers stop by to pay us for stuff, which we would have had to use our own gas to dispose of the junk at Goodwill or the landfill. You have to love the free enterprise concept.
Jessica and Debbie were here right around 8 and were unloaded and set up during the first wave of customers. Gin picked up Jean around 9 and she was set up within 30 minutes. Overall the morning went by pretty fast. I don’t recall a time when there wasn’t at least one customer.
I fired up the grill around 11:30 and started grilling chops. Jessica kept telling Gin and Debbie that if she kept smelling the smoke from the grill, that she was going to grab a raw chop and eat it. Well, she never ate a raw one, but she did pretty well on the cooked ones. We all enjoyed the chops with some tater salad and baked beans.
The afternoon brought some pretty stiff winds out of the south. There were times when we were being showered with pin oak leaves. We packed it all in around 2:30 and were finished storing everything away by a little after 3. The till was divvied up and all finished the day with a little more than they started with.
Saturday night Patrick and Jessica took us out for pizza in Columbus. It was nice having two of my favorite meals on the same day. We were back at our house by 7:30 and started a game of Aggravation Rummy. We did not get through the entire game before we decided to end it so Patrick could get some sleep. He had to work Sunday morning, so we didn’t want to keep him too late.
Sunday I made the picture frame for Gin’s tree picture. Earlier last week, Gin sketched the picture of the tree in Patrick’s back yard onto a piece of thin birch plywood. Then she painted the tree using Elmer’s glue and let it dry. Next she stained the entire piece. The places where the glue is painted turns out very light, while the background takes on the stain color.
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