I'm still working on clearing out my mother's house. We had a garage sale on Saturday. I had wanted to have one a few weeks back, but my brothers' claimed other obligations every week. Finally we scheduled one for yesterday and, of course, the weather refused to cooperate. It's been dry and sunny for weeks, but yesterday the rain rolled in. It rained steadily from about 8-10 a.m. and then started tapering off. My brother had put up a large tarp awning which kept everything dry, but I'm sure lots of potential garage salers got up and looked out the window at the rain and decided to do something else Saturday morning. We stuck it out though and people came. Because I didn't want to pack everything back inside, I gave really good deals! The dozens of boxes of fabrics and linens stored in the greenhouse have been reduced to about 15-20. There are still about 20 boxes of books - the same ones my brother promised to take to the used bookstore last summer. I told him I'm taking a box a week to the Goodwill starting next week. If he doesn't do something with them, they will gradually disappear.
There is still alot of stuff in the house, but we are going to start working on something different for a while. We're going to tear the kitchen apart. It hasn't had a good cleaning or sorting out in at least 15 years. My brother keeps telling me he's going to do it, but it hasn't happened so Elsie and I are tackling it next since I've had it with his promises.
We were so tired yesterday but we had the Little Guy come spend the night. He brought all the old trucks and cars he's been collecting at Great-Grandma's. He was playing on the stairs and when I went to see what he was doing, this is what he had constructed on the Christmas advent wreath waiting on the stairs to be stored upstairs. A car perched on each candle. Too cute!
~Jane
