First Day of Vacation

I made it to AL on time and with luggage. It's a miracle! What a beautiful sight to be sitting on the plane in Baltimore and see my luggage rolling up on a luggage cart and being loaded onto the plane!

It's now just before 4:00 and the shed is cleaned out and the riding mower is sold! What an interesting dynamic--we just put stuff, stuff and more stuff out in the alley. About 1:00 a lady drove up and started picking through it all. People drive up and down the alleys looking for scrap metal to sell. She took about 1/3 of what was out there including a metal folding table but took it out of the box. She said there are about 8 new people out of work who do this every day.

I went out and told her we had a riding mower so she looked at it. She thought on Saturday she'd have the money if we'd hold it. Dad said if it's here on Saturday she can have it, but if someone comes up with money it may not be here on Saturday. About 30 minutes later the sanitation dept came by with a truck that just scooped up all the junk we'd put out. One of the guys looked at me and said, "You must be a Klopfenstein." Apparently we've known them since we've moved to Alabama. Dad came out and tried to sell the mower to him and his partner.

The lady came back with her son and bought the mower. It may have been for a little less than what Dad wanted, but it's gone. Since I started the price a bit low (which it sold for), I told Dad I wouldn't take a commission.

What a huge blessing that we could empty the two huge garbage bins for that garbage truck to scoop up so we now are starting over with two empty bins to fill for the regular garbage pick up tomorrow!

Next job to tackle: empty the loft and clean it out.