Niece Is Engaged

Last weekend we met my niece and her fiancé Erik in Frisco at Heritage Park to take some engagement pictures. They are a very cute couple and both are very photogenic. I felt so very honored that she asked me to take the pictures.

They are a very busy young couple and only share one day a week off, Sunday. So we met them about eleven on Sunday. At eleven it was already very hot out. The weatherman was predicting triple digit heat. Needless to say, we didn’t waste any time getting the pictures taken. I shot over a hundred pictures in about an hour and a half. I wanted to get it done before any of us fell victim to a heat stroke! It doesn’t make for very good pictures when everyone has bet red faces either.

Afterwards we grabbed lunch at a nearby restaurant. We drank a lot of iced tea and had a great time visiting.

Hot Weather and Garage Sales

Wow, it was a Hot Weekend!

On Friday night I spent several hours out in the garage restocking the STUFF. I was setting out new STUFF in preparation for a garage sale on Saturday. We really are starting to make progress and I want to keep up the momentum. We debated whether or not to even bother since this was Memorial Day weekend. We weren’t too sure how well a garage sale would do on a holiday weekend but we thought it might be worth a try. I placed fans in several areas of the garage to help keep our customers cool.

Well, I am glad to announce, it was worth it. On Saturday we sold some more STUFF. We didn’t open until nine and we closed about two-thirty. We have tried opening earlier but no one shows up until about nine. We were surprised how many people stopped by and shopped in this heat on a holiday weekend. We had a few that stopped in, looked and left. But for the most part everyone else bought something. We sold Dawn’s Madame Alexander Dolls to our first customer of the day. Dawn has had them for over forty years. Even though they have been in boxes in the top of a closet she is still sad to see them go! We sold a many pieces of the Franciscan apple dinnerware to a good friend and we sold a lot of odds and ends too. Dawn was multi-tasking, she was also smoking brisket and pork butt while we were having the garage sale.

At two-thirty we closed up and went in to cool down. We were so tried from the garage sale and the heat.

We are both looking forward to our lives as fulltiming RVers. We look forward to moving to cooler areas for the summer and warmer areas in the winter. We are both from Texas and neither of us can stand the Texas summers. The older we get, the harder it is to suffer the heat and humidity here in Texas in the summer. Dawn was saying on Saturday how she wished she could have back one of the snows day we had last January!

On Sunday we did chores around the house and on Monday we went to Frisco and and did some exploring. Nice town.

Christmas STUFF

Dawn went to the doctor this morning. She has had a swollen glad in her neck for a week now and has been zapped of all her energy. The doctor told her she has an infection and gave her a prescription. We hope that she is feeling better real soon. She wants to get her energy back.

The heat and humidity outside will zap your energy quickly. So I came up with a plan that would allow us to move forward with sorting thru STUFF without dying of a heat stroke. I brought the totes and boxes into the house so we could be in the AC while we sorted thru the STUFF. Great Plan!

I moved fourteen totes from the garage into the dining room last night. They were all marked “Christmas”. We sat in the dining room under the ceiling fan and went thru each tote. It was like Christmas, we found ornaments we haven’t seen in years. We also found things that weren’t Christmas related at all. We made a keep pile and a garage sale pile. It took us several hours but we went thru each tote and we are now proud to announce that we have narrowed our Christmas keepsakes down to three totes!!!! That is a huge accomplishment.

Another Garage Sale!!!

We had another garage sale on Saturday. We sold a little bit of STUFF. We sold enough STUFF that we were able to do some restocking. We have now added two set of dishes to be sold. That doesn’t sound like much but you would have to know that these two sets both have about twenty plates, twenty saucers, twenty cups, twenty bowls and many different size serving bowls and platters. That my friend is a LOT of dishes.

We didn’t realize that it was going to be so hot and humid. It didn’t matter. We still have to get rid of this STUFF. Once again we had return customers. We have made a lot of new friends by having the garage sale. We have regular customers that will just stop by just to visit when they see the signs out. Sometimes they return with family members. We have had people stop by the house during the week after work to ask if we still have a certain item or to ask for the money back because a two dollar lamp doesn’t work. By the way, the lamp did work. They just didn’t have the bulb screwed in all the way!

We are starting to see a dent in the stack of boxes we have in storage!!!!!!!

We are planning to have another sale this weekend even though it is Memorial day weekend. We just hope we have good weather.

Sunday we ran errands and made homemade ice cream!