
I went "Garage Sale-ing" yesterday with Eon. I think we went to 90% of the garage sales. Even I was like "Do you want to go home now?" But he didn't. Even after all the garage sales, we went to three stores. 😳 I created a monster! 😂 I just can't do as much as I used to be able to, it wears me out. I shopped until I dropped, then I still had to make dinner and do the dishes.. 🥱 When I wanted to just lay on the couch and take a long nap. I guess I got retail therapy and then some, yesterday. Anyway, this is all the things I got. Two books, a plant (OMG!!! I don't need another stinking plant, why?....) It's a "Wandering Jew" and I have been wanting one, okay? I used to have one that my SIL gave me a cutting from one of her plants. (SHE had a lot of plants! Well, she had a lot of everything... I honestly think she borders on hoarding..) Anyway, I got the "Verity" book, and the plant at one garage sale. Then the Gibson Girl wrapping paper at another one. And "The Fiery Cross" book and yarn at another one.

Don't ask me why I got more yarn... I don't even like the green. But... 🤷 It's really good yarn, and it was only $3 for the yarn and the little bag.

The books. I read the first four of the Outlander series, I didn't even know that, when I bought the book. I was thinking "I'll have to go look, and see which other ones I need to read before this one." I read them all, and this is the next one. 😱 How weird is that? It's been so long since I read them though, I don't know. And I am almost positive that Verity is in my "Want to Read" list. I already started reading it. I have three books going right now. Ugh... I'm trying to stay focused here and finish "The Mirror and the Light" book. I joined the "2025 Reading Challenge" on Goodreads. I only committed to 10 books. (Wow...) It might take me all year to finish The Mirror and the Light, though; it's so boring... This is the third time I started to read it. I am almost half way done. I even started watching it on TV, to try and get into it.. I liked the first two books. I don't know why this one is dragging for me.

After we went to all the garage sales, we were going to go to Hobby Lobby. But first we had to go to Blains'. I don't know why, I think Eon just wanted to shop. I wanted to go back and get the strawberry cookie jar. I couldn't stop thinking about it. 🍓 I don't know if I am going to totally redo the whole kitchen: Towels, hot pads, pans, plates, rug.... Someone I saw somewhere (online), just does her kitchen strawberries for June-August. Maybe I'll do that? I decorate for Christmas, Halloween, etc... Maybe I will just have a summer strawberry kitchen. I wish I could get a whole new kitchen, but.... (This house is 125 years old, so...)
Speaking of old houses, one of the houses we went to yesterday (an "Estate Sale"- but it wasn't very much stuff...), it was a big impressive "Antebellum" looking house in town. But when we got inside, it was... 😳 How to describe it... The first room we walked into, there was a stove on the left and a sink/counter and some cupboards on the right. But, no refrigerator. It had pink and green wallpaper. And everything just looked crooked. Like one of those quirky upside down crooked houses you sometimes see for tourist things.. Then you walk through that room to another room. Then another "room" (but, it's all open). Then to your right, another room and stairs going up. Then to your right again, the living room. Then to your right again, there's another ("normal") kitchen. It was a weird layout. It looked so big from the outside. But when you are in the house, it's not so nice. Old carpet, that wood paneling on the walls... Maybe it would have been if it was fixed up/ remodeled. (Like this house.) I asked the woman, "So there's a kitchen there, and a bigger one here?" She said they made it into, and rented out an efficiency apartment out when her parents were there, but no one wanted to keep it up later on. So it's just there, still. I just thought it was interesting. I would have liked to see the upstairs. But I didn't want to be weird. 😝 It looked so much bigger from the outside. Maybe there's a hidden staircase that leads to more rooms, that they don't know about..

Anyway, at Hobby Lobby... I got the soap dispenser, too. I filled it up with my $1.25 store liquid soap. 😝 I want to get some strawberry scented hand soap, that would be cool. But I already have the other kind in it. You can see the rooted plant I was going to pot yesterday (I couldn't find any pots I liked at any garage sales, I did look).
I crocheted a "strawberry" Notepad Basket Fridgie. I still need to glue a magnet on the back. It didn't turn out as cute as I thought. The ribbon is crooked looking to me, and I probably should have fixed it before I sewed everything on, but oh well. I showed my husband and he kind of laughed, and said "You're going crazy with the strawberries".
Our landlord asked my husband yesterday, if we would be interested in buying this house. (That is a loaded thought..) I don't know what to do!!.... There's so many things to think about... If we did buy it, we could remodel this kitchen. We could remodel a lot in this house... Sigh.... I think I am just going crazy, period.
School got out here Friday, and kids were everywhere yesterday. High schoolers at the gas station like it was a party in the parking lot. And the community garage sales. It feels like summer has begun. (Even though it's not technically the first day of summer yet.) 😉