Joann attended the management meeting for her new company and as with many of these affairs there was an afternoon of recreation. You got to choose from among a tour of the local area, golf (naturally), a grueling bike ride, or skeet/trap shooting. Since Jo's golf game leaves much to be desired, and the bike tour was described as tough, she selected to pick up a shotgun and blast clay pigeons to smithereens. She discovered how tough skeet shooting really is hitting only 3 out of 10 targets. Plus got a really healthy bruise on her shoulder from the recoil. But with all that, she had a great time - the bruises aside - but a lot of her enjoyment was getting to know her new co-workers in a non-work venue. I don't think we are going to be shotgun shopping anytime soon. For me, I was just happy she didn't shoot herself - or someone else.
The big event this past weekend was our garage sale. As we had unpacked the house from the move, we decided it was finally time to eliminate some of the items (nice way of saying junk) that we had accumulated over the years, especially since everything didn't fit into our new house. So as we unpacked, we moved anything for the future sale into a room and watched the pile grow. I then spent this week getting everything out of the room and onto the first floor (for easy moving outside), priced, and sorted (cleaned would have been nice as well, but there just wasn't time - and as it turned out apparently not really necessary). Unfortunately, the weather Saturday was less than ideal with overcast skies and a lot of damp/wet air. But no rain which we counted as a big plus. The lousy weather fortunately didn't stop the shoppers. The first began coming at 7:30, even though we had listed a 9:00 start time, and last few came around 3:30. So we had folks throughout the day. The largest crowds were up to about noon and they seemed to be the people most ready to buy things - sometimes lots of things. The good news that we sold about 80% of the items which was far better than we had hoped. Most importantly we got rid of all but one of our really large items that would have been hard to transport to Goodwill. After putting everything away that didn't sell and cleaning up, we ordered pizza and collapsed onto the couch. We were in bed and asleep by 9 that night - it takes a lot out of you being on your feet moving around all day.
The upside of removing all the junk, is we finally were able to get one of the cars into our garage. After installing some shelves this week and carting the unsold items to Goodwill, we are hoping to have both cars into the garage by the end of the week.
Joann attended the management meeting for her new company and as with many of these affairs there was an afternoon of recreation. You got to choose from among a tour of the local area, golf (naturally), a grueling bike ride, or skeet/trap shooting. Since Jo's golf game leaves much to be desired, and the bike tour was described as tough, she selected to pick up a shotgun and blast clay pigeons to smithereens. She discovered how tough skeet shooting really is hitting only 3 out of 10 targets. Plus got a really healthy bruise on her shoulder from the recoil. But with all that, she had a great time - the bruises aside - but a lot of her enjoyment was getting to know her new co-workers in a non-work venue. I don't think we are going to be shotgun shopping anytime soon. For me, I was just happy she didn't shoot herself - or someone else.
The big event this past weekend was our garage sale. As we had unpacked the house from the move, we decided it was finally time to eliminate some of the items (nice way of saying junk) that we had accumulated over the years, especially since everything didn't fit into our new house. So as we unpacked, we moved anything for the future sale into a room and watched the pile grow. I then spent this week getting everything out of the room and onto the first floor (for easy moving outside), priced, and sorted (cleaned would have been nice as well, but there just wasn't time - and as it turned out apparently not really necessary). Unfortunately, the weather Saturday was less than ideal with overcast skies and a lot of damp/wet air. But no rain which we counted as a big plus. The lousy weather fortunately didn't stop the shoppers. The first began coming at 7:30, even though we had listed a 9:00 start time, and last few came around 3:30. So we had folks throughout the day. The largest crowds were up to about noon and they seemed to be the people most ready to buy things - sometimes lots of things. The good news that we sold about 80% of the items which was far better than we had hoped. Most importantly we got rid of all but one of our really large items that would have been hard to transport to Goodwill. After putting everything away that didn't sell and cleaning up, we ordered pizza and collapsed onto the couch. We were in bed and asleep by 9 that night - it takes a lot out of you being on your feet moving around all day.
The upside of removing all the junk, is we finally were able to get one of the cars into our garage. After installing some shelves this week and carting the unsold items to Goodwill, we are hoping to have both cars into the garage by the end of the week. 
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