A week of FINDS!!!

This whole week has been a week of really awesome vintage finds! Starting Monday @ my GW...bought 2 semi-old Chinese Checker games, cause I like the graphics & I collect marbles...went to put the marbles in zip bags in my truck, cause the rolling sound while driving was driving me nuts, & found that most of the plain ol' marbles had been replaced w/ really cool marbles. Then went to 2 sales on Thursday, and 2 on Friday and found all of these vintage finds for cheep..cheep..cheep!! Pyrex sugar & creamer, cute little Homer Laughlin sugar bowl, gravy boat & 5 of the old books all @ one. Took the stuff up to the elderly lady having the sale and she says "1.00...for everything" & proceeds to wrap it all up! I gave her $2.00. to cover all the wrap she used! The other books came from 1 Thurs sale, for .25 each...and the really neat wood wine crate came from the curb!! Also in the same pile, found a wood framed humongous mirror w/ plate glass that must weigh 50 lbs!, and 1 framed oil or acrylic that will come out of it's "fugly" frame & go to my resale space. Will take & post pics of those as soon as I can get them out of my truck! All in all, a very good week, with very little $ spent. Planned on NO sales today, but there's 1 @ the local firehouse...gotta support the locals, right??!!?? Later! ...One more DGD pic to sneak in...we had bfast tog Fri AM, & this kid is just so darn sweet in the morning...Mommy & Daddy are night owls, but this one is a morning person all the way...kid after my own heart!! Oh, wait, she's already got that!!!!

My heart has been broken...

On January 7th, we had to make the decision to put to sleep our sweet lovin' yellow Lab, Buck. He had been ill for over a year and we kept hoping for the miracle that never came. Every morning when I would feed him, I would tell him it was okay to let go...but he just kept hanging on, and that Sunday before the 7th, he could barely stand...and my husband found a sweet lovin' vet that agreed to come to our home and help us say goodbye...and now my keyboard's getting all wet, and I thought I'd waited long enough to write about this w/o tears. Guess I was wrong , folks. The Doc my husband found was one of the most compassionate women I've ever met...she has no office, all her work is done mobile...& she spent a huge amount of time with us & Buck...never made me feel like she was in a rush to get on w/ the next thing on her list...very unusual in this day of "rush..get it done...rush..rush...move on". If my heart ever stops breaking, she will be my new Doc for whatever "fur-face" finds his/her way into our home and our hearts...not now, & maybe not for a long, long time...but I feel that there will be another unloved & unwanted who will somehow find us, just like my sweet Buck did 13 years ago...and he or she will probably break my heart again...and damn, I feel like the Tin Man...I know I have a heart, cause it just keeps getting broken...I miss you "Buck-L-Butts"..(why do my pets always end up with odd add-ons to their names??)...and I'll miss you always. Hope you made it to the Rainbow Bridge...I'll see you in 30 or 40 years, God willin'....

Whoa! I have comments!!

Started this "wannabe" blog back in July, not really knowing what on earth to do with it...gave it a neat title, and proceeded to post stuff that had nothing to do with junkin'. Didn't even know that other people could, or would, access this teeny internet space by clicking on my name...still a little DUH when it comes to techno stuff. SOOO...imagine my surprise when I found I had 2 comments from last year that I had never even looked at ! Sorry, folks! New year, new ideas...and I promise to post some pics of my treasures, of which there are many... every time I bring home something new, my husband of 34 years says, " So now we're complete?" Gotta love him...that's him, btw, under the rainbow on our lake in the previous post. Will search the "archives" for pics I've already uploaded...or is that downloaded? I can never remember which is what! Note to self...need to carry my digital camera with me on my junkin' trips...then maybe I can get a shot before lugging the booty to the work shed...or up in the barn...or fitting it into it's new home inside... or pricing it for resale @ my little space I share w/best friend Steph...the same one who moved from Mass in July! We're off to the Flea Market on Wed...with our "old woman" cart that somehow always manages to end up full, even on a slow day!!! Okay...so there's a couple pics of my "junk". More to follow...have a great day..And I'm sneaking in just 1 pic of my sweet granddaughter..my Zoombrowser's full of 'em!!

Where did Fall go ?!?

I've been a bad blogger...have not posted a word since July, so it would appear I lost half of the summer as well. Today is Halloween...BOO...and I'll turn around and Thanksgiving will be here and our sweet Ali will be a year old! Can Christmas be far behind? A lot has been going on in the past couple of months, but it would take hours for me to catch up on it all ...so I'll just say Happy Fall, and go out and enjoy the beautiful weather we are finally having!

Heat of the summer!

It's HOT...HOT...and more hot every where you look! I usually feel like Floridians are the ones who suffer most, but a quick look at the National weather shows me we are not alone. Hopefully, we will all survive this oppressive heat without spontaneous combustion!!! Steph and Steve are moving onward and upward on their new home quest. They found, and made an offer on, a house in Lake Mack! The offer has been accepted, and now they're waiting to close and get started on cleaning and moving into a new home. I'm very happy they picked a place so close to us. It's great having an old friend right around the corner. I look forward to them getting into the new house, and making new memories!

"Mass" move to Florida...mid July!

Well...this has been an interesting weekend so far. Steph & Steve sold their house on Cape Cod, and moved their whole lives to Florida, during the heat of the summer! They arrived on Thursday night in a U-Haul truck with a car carrier and 2 cats! Needless to say, it's been a bit chaotic since then. They rented a little mobile home on the next street over, so only spent one night sleeping here. Good thing, since the new air mattress from Sears (China, of course) went flat over night! We started unloading the truck at 1:00 PM Friday, and gave up when it got too hot, and a thunderstorm was looming overhead. They got an early start this AM, and we're sitting here nursing aches and pains that have us moanin' and groanin' every time we move! When did we get so darn old that we can't help a friend move without feeling all these pains??? I'm thrilled that they are finally here, after 2 years of planning and trying to sell their house. Old friends are hard to come by, and now we are moving on to a totally different phase...we'll see how things go!

Baby's getting bigger!

As every week goes by, I am amazed at how fast this granddaughter of ours is growing! I had 2 kids...I don't remember feeling that they were growing too fast, except maybe when they started Kindergarden. Ali is 71/2 months old, and it really feels like she just came into our lives a day ago! I guess that's a thing that goes along with growing older...I just want to grab the time and slow it down...I know I can't do that, but I don't want to turn around and see her going off to Kindergarden tomorrow!! Silly Grandma.....

Independence Day 2007

A rainy day here in Florida...must be the 4th of July. We seem to have rain every year on this day, and it's always a question if the fireworks will go on, or not. I think not this year. We'll watch a display on Tv, and listen to the kids in the park popping off firecrackers...they've already started, and it's only 7 PM. A time to reflect on the supreme sacrifice made by our men and women in uniform...we may not agree with the war, or the reasons it's being fought...but we must never forget that these soldiers believe in what they are fighting for and we must always support them...and pray for their safe return home. Far too many and given their lives in the name of freedom. We cannot take that freedom for granted. Happy Independence Day to you, wherever you are.