My Yard Sale

This past week I was in a very dark place. I needed to write a short blog this morning to let everyone know that I am feeling better and coming back from under the funk that had me in hiding. The day after I wrote my last post, things did not get better. I woke up the next day feeling even more miserable and try as I might, could not shake off the doom and gloom, so I went back to bed at 11 AM and stayed there all day. I slept really well all that day and night. There were so many times I wanted to call people to cancel the sale, but it would have been harder to do that, so I gathered all the strength and resolve I had left and marched forward. Friday afternoon, I picked up my friend after work and brought her home to my house. We stayed up 'til past 10PM getting ready. Yesterday morning, to my delight, both my son and his fiancee were here to help us set up 5 tables with all the wares I had ready. I resolved not to stress about not being quite as prepared as I wanted to be, partly because I knew there needed to be a second yard sale later this summer. Five tables wasn't nearly enough display area for everything that was ready for sale, so for the items I didn't  bring out, there is a second chance later in August. My friend stayed with me until the bitter end. She was here to help bring stuff inside and carry the tables back where they belonged. I will be forever grateful. I made $100, which I am thrilled about because most everything was small household items that ranged from 10 cents to a dollar. I had a very few larger items, but nothing was priced over $10  The sales were steady from 8 AM until we quit at 2 PM.  I got rid of lots of stuff and I visited with a lot of my neighbours. The weather was perfect, and I ended the day exhausted. My dinner was ready because I just needed to reheat left overs from the night before.

Today is Father's Day. My friend and her husband in Charleston Lake have invited me over for the day and to sleep over. They are offering me a quiet day at their cottage in the woods and it sounds lovely.......just what I am needing. Tomorrow I will begin the process of going through everything left from the sale. If there was plenty of interest in something, I might save it  for resale. I suspect most of it I will pack up in cardboard boxes and take to  a Thrift Store. Then I will begin to clean up my now empty floor space and call in a couple of realtors for advice. So things continue to move forward;  not as quickly as I first imagined, but forward nonetheless. I may not sell for a year but I can still gather information and work towards the end result. I hope everyone is enjoying their Father's Day weekend and that you are taking it easy.

I think these are Sweet William. I planted them last year (that's why I can't remember), but they have come back this year even better than ever. I am wanting to plant even more of them, so I had better find out what they are.