On Saturday morning, I was up at 5:30AM and got the post up. I got the kitchen cleaned up and then got a chicken in the crockpot. I sat down for a while. Around 11AM I got ready and went out to mow up

Sunday sunrise On Sunday morning I got up and got the sprinklers going. Then I got the photos edited and the post written and up. Next was cleaning up the kitchen. I got the house closed up and didn’t

I didn’t have a good night Friday night, but I really wanted to go to the tag sale. It wasn’t too far away and so once the kitchen was cleaned up and my post was up, I rested until it was time to get ready.

On Saturday my friend arrived at 7:30AM and we loaded into my car and headed out for tag sales. I’d found 11 for the route. The first was way north near the house I grew up in. It advertised canning jars.

On Sunday morning, after a decent night’s sleep, I was up at 5AM. I got the chores done, the house closed up against the sun and heat, and went out to mow. I did up by the barn first then came down to

On Saturday morning we finally had a nice sunrise after all the gloomy days. This was at 5:15AM. I got ready and was just a little late to go at 7:30. My helper friend opened the cold frame for the first

On Saturday, I had too much to do before I left at 7:30 AM for the tag sales, so we were late leaving, not til 7:45. We headed straight up the highway to the first one that had canning jars. Boy was that

I never got the zucchini bread made on Friday afternoon, so I cleaned up the kitchen first thing on Saturday morning and laid out everything I could to make the bread. I’d be making 3 loaves, hopefully

My friend and I headed out about 7:30 to hit the first sale, an estate sale. It was a wonderful sale, well laid out, well cared for items, and happy family working it. I got all this Christmas stuff, a

Saturday was to be a beautiful day and started off with this sunrise. Every morning Lily is right there waiting to be fed in the butchershop at 7AM. Dennis is sometimes around, but not often. I am still

On Friday when my intern took me to the store, I’d seen a sign for a tag sale on Saturday that was near my house. I thought I’d try to get to it early Saturday morning before I got tired. I looked online

We’d missed our anniversary trip to the Fair this year. Last year I had gotten a Fair t-shirt, one of the older style ones. I was messing around on the internet and went to the Fair’s FB page. They’d mentioned

On Saturday we headed out to hit such tag sales as we had planned or would find in our travels. The first couple weren’t very good but then we hit a really nice one! Top: pumpkin butter and laces from

Usually Columbus Day weekend is a big blowout for the last tag sales of the season. There were very few listed in the paper but I had found a couple for here in town. We seldom get to those because for

Joiner We got a great find on Saturday at one of our last tag sales. The day had started off poorly, with our first one, an estate sale, being run by someone who had no clue what things were worth. She

On hot days, or maybe not, when I look out at the middle pasture, this is most often what I see. No birds. The coop is their only shade most of the day. It’s also their security and where the food and

New Herb garden – chicory, portulacas, soapwort, basil, borage Tag sales yesterday we didn’t get any super finds, but did come home with a car load, mostly housewares. The temps have again soared into

Two weeks ago Franklin County, north of us, had a county wide tag sale at the Fairgrounds. We didn’t find much but I did get this little gem. It is an extension lamp for a spinet piano. It has a very heavy

I found this set of enamel ware at a tag sale along our route. It was rather battered but had cool items: a measuring container (lower right), a mixing bowl (upper right), 3 sauce pans, a small pitcher,

I had wanted a bench or something to sit on in the new entry way. At a barn sale Saturday morning I found a newer edition of this for $20. We had to take the back off to get it into the Subaru and now