Day 141

Today was the big garage sale day, and it was a bust :(  The minute 9am rolled around, the skies opened up and started raining on us. We had to scramble to cover up all our stuff, all my tags got smudged, and of course it kept the people away. At one point my parents came by and they let me know that our big sign by the main highway road was down. This was the sign I was counting on bringing in most of the people, so I had to hop in the car and try to pound it back into the ground. By the time my parents left and got back home, they had let me know that the sign was back down again. I had to make up a huge contraption held down by a big patio slab. Another highlight was seeing a skunk run across the yard, and ending up sun burnt again even though I was under an umbrella almost the whole time.

Look at all this crap we're trying to get rid of! LOL

Day 103

Last night when I went to bed, I removed my earrings and found I was only wearing one. These earrings were very special to me, my grandmother had given them to me when I was around 5 years old. I even wore them in my kindergarten picture. 

I had been working all day around the yard fixing up the pond, but I had also hopped the fence looking for mossy rocks in the woods for the garden. I knew if I lost it there, I would never find it again, but if I lost it around the yard, I might be able to find it with my metal detector.

So first thing in the morning, I grabbed the detector, but I couldn't find it. I searched the house and couldn't find it in there either. I tried outside once again and retraced all my steps but still couldn't find it. Just as I was about to give up, I decided to go around the pond one more time and I finally got a signal. There under some brown scraggly dead grass was my earring.

I still can't believe I found it, the odds were so against me.

Day 101

 I spotted on old dump site in the woods on an old back road on the way to the grocery store today. When we were heading back home, I had Wally stop so I could walk in and take a look. It's one of the bigger dump sites I have seen around here, there were bottles every where, old appliances, shoes, etc.. I'm guessing the stuff was from around the 40's or 50's. I have to get back there one day soon (possibly tomorrow) with some good boots, gloves and a digging tool. I got honked at by Wally after about 10 minutes so I grabbed these bottles and headed back to the car.

Day 40

These dolls dressed in traditional Dutch costumes used to sit on display at the Dutch embassy in Montreal where my mom used to work. The office closed down this past summer, and on the weekend they were passed down to me.