posted on September 2, 2001 08:22:29 AM new
So how is your labor day weekend going? I am so stiff and sore from only one day that I am ready for the weekdays and getting back to the regular list and send auction drill.
We have a flea market here that lasts for three days. I went to it twice yesterday and that was after hitting all of the garage sales in town and checking out an auction. Today I'm going out to clean my fathers antique shop which is a never ending job. He lives a little way into the country and there are plenty of bugs that love to come in and try to live there. Too many of those bugs actually succeed!
Tomorrow I'm going to get the family together for an old fashioned cream can dinner. We use a cream can and put vegetables from the garden(potatoes, squash, carrots, cabbage etc.) in the bottom of it, then corn in its husks on top of the veggies and then put polish sausage or whatever on top of the corn and cook over a grill or open fire. Yum!
posted on September 2, 2001 08:48:07 AM new
Yesterday I spent the morning putting together the newsletter for the Southern California Mule & Donkey Assn., then I spent the afternoon printing it out at work (with permission), stapling the copies, putting on address labels & postage & then dropped it off at the post office.
Today I am going to loll around this morning, go to a movie this afternoon, ride my mule this evening, and then finish it all off from 8-11pm by helping sell tickets at the Norco Fair & manning the Norco Horsemen Assn. booth there.
Tomorrow I have a riding lesson in the morning. Have no idea about the rest of the day.
posted on September 2, 2001 09:02:24 AM new
I'm multitasking...LoL
While my dishes and clothes are being washed, I'm posting notes on the computer while I solve family related problems on the other side of my brain. Providing food is also my job and that weighs heavy on my mind...(wish I had your cooking skills.) But fortunately this responsibility leaves me with an excuse not to visit my mother in law, who is firmly and happily ensconced in a nursing home.
I am trying to buy a computer and yesterday I found that it is not possible to buy one at a store in the Washington DC area so today I am also investigating the possibility of ordering one on line. In order to do this, I find that I need to learn a lot of new geek terminology so that's another project for today.
posted on September 2, 2001 09:39:36 AM new
Yesterday we finished up buyin' our school supplies....Printed labels, labeled & gathered everything into our new backpacks...Then we went thru all our new back to school clothes, put together outfits, and measured 3 of 3's pants for grandma to hem. Then we shackled grandma to the sewing machine to finish the alternations...Unfortunately, she didn't get everything done, so we did untie her and let her go to bed.
Today we are having a BBQ...Started out with just us & the grandmas, and somehow grew into a larger crowd. We've got burgers & steak. lobster tails (for the grandmas ONLY) shrimp, shis-ca-bob, corn, mac & potato salad, chips & dips, fruit salad, lo-cal moose pie, apple pie & whipped cream!...YUMMY!!!.....We even told grandma that we would loosen her shackles if she finished sewing before the guests arrived!
I'm am SO ready for this summer to be over, and to get back to a routine, and eBay sellin'!....
posted on September 2, 2001 09:43:53 AM new
Well yesterday I worked on my garage and pulled out stuff to list ~ then listed two huge tubs full of stuff ~ for a total of 22 auctions. Twenty two is good considering I had to wade throught the garage and put these auctions together with stuff that was from one end to the other of the garage. I am trying to get everything in my garage listed before buying much else (I can only buy if it is a huge deal). I hope to get 30 to 50 auctions listed today.........but I will be happy with 20. Tomorrow I will take the day off..........maybe!
posted on September 2, 2001 10:39:06 AM new
I got almost everything I wanted to get done. (Whew). I put some merchandise in a new space I'm renting, I had my yard sale, and if I don't do another thing today, I'll have 30 auctions to list tonight (my goal was 50, but I'm happy with 30).
The yardsale was moderately successful considering it rained on and off all day, but the best thing of all is that I have my basement back! I also met the grand daughter of the woman who owned my house in 1928 - and a couple of other people who remembered her - apparently she was quite a character.
Yardsales on Fri kind of bit, but I'll go out tomorrow and see if anyone has anything left that they want to get rid of at wonderful prices.
Like all Sunday mornings, it's peace and quiet around here - my weekly alone time. My partner spends about 5 hours at church, and I have the house to myself to just read the boards or play solitaire or whatever.
posted on September 2, 2001 03:15:55 PM new
No cooking skills involved in a cream can. We just buy the stuff to go in it, wash the veggies, put the meat and veggies in the can with a little water and cook till it's all steaming hot. Then you dump it in some huge dishes and take what you like to eat. The guys always do the cooking. It's the easiest way to feed a crowd that I know of.
posted on September 2, 2001 09:37:34 PM new
Yee-ikes! Trying to kill a nest of yellowjackets who got under a loose shingle in the roof and are nesting in the wall of an upstairs room. Tried squirting that long-distance stuff, didn't work. Tried hanging one of those trap bags with little bits of meatball, didn't work. Tonight tried another can we had of the squirt stuff, got out the extension ladder, and the can wouldn't squirt.
We never go out of town on Labor Day. Too congested. Love staying home. We're nesters.
posted on September 2, 2001 09:55:08 PM new
Doing a fleatique show, one more day to go! Has been since Friday.
It is our rib cook off. It runs from 11 am to 10 pm.
The strange aspect--the later the day, the better sales.
Be it the ribs or the beer, they start to buy.
But the people!! Being on the internet for the last 2 1/2 years has been a respite from real people. Dealing with them en masse, face to face--I choose the internet.
Besides, someone gave me a bug and I am dealing with swollen glands and a hideous horrible nasel drip problem.
posted on September 2, 2001 10:06:03 PM new
There are three major events in town this weekend and I managed to miss two of them I really have begun to hate Labor Day ... over a million people were expected to swoop in and drive us all crazy!
I think the projections must have been about right
I spent yesterday checking out a new video store program - which I really liked .. and school clothes shopping.
I really gotta get on the ball and list some auctions so I can make up all the money I spent
Tuesday is orientation for my little one for PreSchool. I cannot wait to have them both back in school. I really missed that school bus
Happy Labor Day, all!
Becky
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