Jaci Dawn

I have not posted as much here as I would like to: life sometimes gets busy or you think you don’t have anything to say. Of course, middle child that I am, I always think I have something to say – I am just not always certain everyone wants to hear what I have to say! HAHA.

My dear sister-in-law Julie spent the night last night and I tried to get her to go yard-saling with me this morning. But she had a horrendous headache and places to be, so had to turn me down. Darn. Next time, Julie! But rest assured: it was a lousy day to go yard-saling.

I thought it would be a good day being the last weekend of “the summer” (so to speak as school begins on Monday in Oregon and it being a 3-day weekend for most folks). Don even thought it would be a great day to go so he volunteered to go with me.

We went high and low but the yard sales were… dry. And few. A lot of Christmas stuff at almost every one we stopped at. I have enough Christmas stuff. Don just rolls his eyes. Unless it is really something unusual, I’m not buying Christmas stuff at yard sales anymore.

Darn, anyway. I’m glad Julie didn’t feel up to going now: it would have been wasted time.

I’m glad Julie spent the night, however. I didn’t get any photos but she spent the night with her son, Austin, and his girlfriend, Kaycee. Arwen brought the boys over to meet Aunt Julie (and Eli won everyone over, including Austin). It was fun to have the 3 little boys with my sister-in-law and her son: all these generations together!! Life is good!

Despite himself, Austin liked the little boys. And he loved the big dogs. The big dogs loved Austin. In fact, the two big dogs were beside themselves having company over. I worry about that sometimes: because we don’t have a lot of outside company, how are our dogs going to behave when we do have company? Are they going to threaten guests? Are they going to jump on people? Are they going to annoy guests (yes)?

Harvey and Murphy were so well behaved as dogs go. They wanted to be petted and they begged Austin to go play, but they didn’t growl or bark or jump on anyone. They were thrilled to have house-guests.

Murphy didn’t even steal anything.

Anyway, back to those elusive yard sales. It was a bad weekend for yard sales. Darn.

The only thing I scored were a pair of plastic butterflies in coppertone. I figured I could hang them on the shed next to the square of copper I bought last summer at some yard sale.

Cost: $0.50.

Last of the big spenders, I know. But they do look nice??