What a weekend!

Oooof! I'm bushed! I had a very good, but very busy weekend!

My wife and I have been wanting to have a yard sale for some time now, but every year we tried to have one, something always got in the way. This year, we finally succeeded in getting everything lined up! Both my wife and I had Friday off, so we got to work late in the morning getting everything organized. I had no idea we had so much junk! It's a good thing that "one man's junk is another man's treasure!" LOL! We spent the entire morning cleaning out the garage so we could store the "merchandise" overnight and then spent the afternoon and evening pulling junk out of the basement into the living room so we could price them, and in some cases, clean them! The biggest item we wanted to sell was our old washing machine. I had refurbished it several years ago so I was hoping to get a few bucks out of it. (A couple of years ago, my sister-in-law and her husband sold their house and moved into a condominium, which forced them to downsize their washer and dryer to apartment size units. We had just bought a brand new dryer a few months earlier so didn't need the dryer, but we thought a newer washer would be welcome, so we bought theirs and put our, still-working, older model into storage.) I had forgotten how heavy that washer was and I ended up having to ask my next-door neighbour for help to get it out of the basement. Not a good thing when you have an injured shoulder! Needless to say, I spent most of the weekend suffering through the pain re-awakened in my shoulder! It was a disappointment that the washer didn't sell, but there is no way I plan on trying to get it back downstairs! I'll just call one of the local charities that picks up used furniture and appliances and have them take it away from my garage! LOL!

We did have a very successful sale Saturday morning, despite the oppressive heat and humidity! All of our "big ticket" items sold (except the washer, of course) and we ended up making almost $430! It is so nice to walk through some areas of our house and see empty space where something we rarely, if ever, used!

I had planned to take my wife out to a nice restaurant Saturday evening for our 17th Anniversary, but we were both so tired, we ended up sleeping from mid afternoon to early evening and were just too groggy to really enjoy a meal! So I took the family out for Sunday Brunch instead. YUM-MY! Gotta love those all-you-can-eat buffets! I was amazed that my two daughters each ate as much as I did, if not more! I had no idea my youngest could pack away so much food at one sitting! LOL! I guess, at 11 years old, she is starting to enter that pre-teen growth-spurt! Scary, though!

Sunday afternoon I took my wife to a large nursery close to our city and we had a blast browsing through the flowers and trees. We ended up buying a bunch of annual flowers for our front gardens (yes, I know, rather late for that, but it's the way it worked out this year!) and then we headed home to plant them in the rain! If we hadn't stopped at Dairy Queen on the way home for some ice cream, we might have finished the planting before the rain came, but, it was worth it!

After the planting, we cleaned up and, after the girls went to bed, watched TV (well, I did, my wife fell asleep again not too long after) until bedtime.

The only downside to the weekend? I woke up this morning with a very sore shoulder and a numb right hand once again. I guess I aggravated the torn muscle a little too much with all that work. So, it was back to the chiropractor first thing this morning which meant I lost yet another day of work, thanks to this injury! I just wish it would heal already! I want my life back!

Hopefully everybody reading this has a good week! Take care! Phoenix out!