The Worst Is Over

...and we all survived.

It nearly took a village to get

through it all but it's now in the past and

I'm moving forward.

We shot these quickly for the ad before 

we had all the furniture out on the front yard. 

Obviously so much more as we nearly hit the $3,000 mark.

We may hit it as just now a gal 

wrote from the craigs list and may come

for FP toys.

We had a preview for invited guests Friday 

night as usual and then decided to put up a couple

signs by the entrance and we nabbed a few more shoppers.

Tidied up a bit, closed the door and tried to sleep

and raised the garage door at 6:30 to waiting folks.

Hauled out everything stacked in 

the back yard and living room

and fired the starter pistol.

By 3 we were winding down

 and kids convinced me to

 do 8-10 Sunday morning, something I never do. 

Slashed prices and Hannah bless her heart went back out

and modified signs.

Glad I did as we were able to give some children

2 train sets that had them beaming.

Meanwhile, through it all Howie 

was vomiting his medicine off and on for three days 

and also the stress of all the people and cousin dog Tubs.

AND Hannah had her HS reunion squeezed in there,

along with renting a truck to 

take some furniture back to CA. 

My daughter to be, and daughter were doing dishes

 non stop and cleaning up. Ben was feeding us

 and doing some home repair for me.

It really was a 3 day frenzy.

Many friends stopped by to say hello

and shop and ask "where are you going?"

My love and gratitude to my three blessings

DD and DS and DD2 for 

always being there for me.

To Annie, Sue and Pam :

Could not have managed without you.

Thank you so very much.

I have some vintage toys left including both 

American Girl Dolls and one overstuffed chair.

Two carloads full to the roof to donation.

One carload to the roof to library.

(took them three trips to get into library with huge cart).

DD2 cooked some lean burger and rice for Howie

and he has not vomited since, and this will

be a lifesaver if it helps him recover

from this infection.

Whew! right?

Now phase two. 

Is there any way I can stay in house? 

Move to Ca? When to sell? How to sell?

Where to rent? What can I afford?

and what the hell is wrong with my health?

Today is more sleep and slowly putting

garage back together and then I am going

 to sew and craft for days and days.

Ben will now have time to get 

my beautiful new website tweaked so that I can sell

again and it's a brave new world..

If we survive the election.

I love the folks who populate my world

including all of you.

Those I've emailed with for a decade and those

who just follow along unknown to me.

Blogging has been a gift.

Thank you for sharing your lives with me.

 I wish I could have you all over for lunch.

With much love

Z