GARAGE SALE

Rain, becoming more intermittent by 10am. Cloudy with temperatures steady near the upper 40s. Winds light and variable.

Poor weather day today. I get out of work at 1:00 PM won't be able to work outdoors in the flower gardens.

We still have not put the porch screens us, but I guess that is ok because we would have been able to sit on the porch all week. This weekend is suppose to be better. I would certainly like to have them up for Memorial Day weekend.

Just about every year since we have lived in the house we are in now we have had a garage sale on Memorial Day weekend. We started it when my daughter was small and she helped and the proceeds from the sale either went to her (depending on how hard she worked) or to our vacation. We always had a summer trip to the ocean whether it was Maine or New Hampshire and a winter trip to Disneyworld. This didn't happen every year, but if we had the time and money these were our favorite places. The garage sale usually had things for sale like outgrown toys (which sold the best) and out grown daughter's clothes (which was not usually the best seller). The garage got contagious after a while with some of our neighbors following suit. And I will tell you why this was so successful on our street on that particular weekend. Because we live on a dead end that leads directly into a cemetery you would not think traffic would be too good for a garage sale. This was one of the reasons why we liked the street so much, very quiet and hardly any traffic. But Memorial Day weekend, our street turns into a bumper to bumper traffic jam with everyone visiting the grave sites of family and friends. The is only one lane through the gates of the cemetery and our house sits two doors down from the gate so cars have to literally stop in front of our house to wait for traffic in and out of the gates. Garage sale our front lawn = major success. We have often thought about cooking hot dogs and hamburgers, the young children down the street usually set up a lemonade stand. My immediate next door neighbor is a big garage saler, she loves to shop at them and when Memorial Day weekend comes she is usually the one prodding me to to find some stuff to sell. As my daughter got older we started giving up the garage sale thing and usually just sit and watch traffic, this year she is bugging me again, so I think I will participate.

We have to cover the plants again today. We got fooled by the warm weather up until now. Our planting season here does not start until Memorial Day weekend and we should stick to it no matter how much Mother Nature tries to fool us.

Heard from my daughter tonight after she got done with work. She misses us and her cat. We miss her too.