Garage SAILing

Today I went garage-sailing with Diane and Gloria. We splashed around Como with a district-wide garage sale map and got in and out of the boat car in the pouring rain. In our defense, it wasn't raining when we decided to go or even when we left. We tried umbrellas, but it just got us more thoroughly soaked while struggling to shut the umbrella with the car door open. All of us stepped in a stream ankle deep while running to a garage. One lady was handing out paper towels to anyone stupid brave enough to face the elements! A truly novel, had-to-be-there moment occurred when we backed up to a garage, unrolled the window, and shook a quarter in a lady's face while yelling to her that she had her fishing stringer sold if she delivered it to our car in the downpour. And she did! I found a St. Paul Fire Department Calendar with Bob's picture for sale for a measly $3 and called him to take him down a peg break it to him. We cut our losses at noon and stopped to get lunch and dry out. The sun peeked through while we were eating our pizza, so we headed back out to Maplewood this time. Here's some of the booty:


Summer reading for 50 cents each; a dozen vintage embroidered quilt blocks for $1.00; and a $2 boxful of 36 tin noisemakers for the Party Queen Extraordinaire Twylla.


A New,complete with $59 price tag Jones NY handkerchief cotton tunic with crochet trim for one of my girls for $1.50; assorted New MN Twins hats for everyone for pennies on the dollar.


But I think my most favorite thing of all is this 50 cent teddy bear for Hannah, complete with a t-shirt that reads " Incontinence" "Tachyarrhythmia" "Enlarged Prostate" and Gastroparesis" among the many ailments printed on it. LOL

Other notable purchases include 6 drinking glasses for $1.50; new Gopher T's for Zach for 50 cents each; new MN Wild ties for 'someone' who wears a tie to work; 10 felt Grad hats for Sophie's preschool Graduation this week- 25 cents; a bagful of Lemony Snicket books for Nate and cute cozy knit shorts,rompers, t's, and a Spiderman costume for Max all for $3.00. All in all I spent $20 and a whole day with good company and a lot of laughs. I'm glad I did that instead of waiting for The Rapture that was predicted to happen today. Well worth it!