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Pretty green garland-leafy-wreath thing….$4.00
 2 bouquets of fake berry-stick-leafy things $0.50, I know they’re fake and I love real flowers, but I’m also cheap and I like nature- looking stuff and unless I’m growing the flowers, I usually don’t buy fresh flowers to keep in the house for everyday use….so stop judging my fake flower purchases! They are cute and pretty phlbbbbbt!
Iron candlestick holder $5.00
That’s it. That’s all I bought. I’m still trying not to spend money on needless things, but Clay and I did allow for some fun money this month, so I used a bit of mine at the estate sale, while Clay used a lot of his at the movie theatre. And there you have the difference between me and him.
I’m going back to the estate sale today. They mark everything down after 4:00. Maybe I’ll come back with some other great finds…..or not.
If I had a super power; today it would be laser paint eyeballs.
Then I could get my dining room painted. Reload my eyeballs and I’d paint Ellen’s furniture. Reload, paint the boys’ room. Reload, paint the hall, reload….eh, I dunno, sounds like a lot of work and what if I look like a demon spewing yellow gook out of my face? Never mind.
Hey! I went to an estate sale today. I was totally expecting it to be some dead old ladies crap like most of the sales I go to. But, NO! It was in a MANSION by the GOLF COURSE in a section of town called THE MASTERS for crying out loud! I had to make Levi hold my hand so I wouldn’t lose him….that’s how stinkin‘ big the house was. There were two…TWO sets of stairs going down to the basement and two…TWO full kitchens. Good gravy.
Okay, but me, being a bit pessimistic, thinks that if your MANSION that’s by the GOLF COURSE in a section of town called THE MASTERS is for sale and you are selling every single item you own in that house, well, me thinks that you maybe should not have been living in a MANSION by the GOLF COURSE in a section of town called THE MASTERS. But, I could be wrong, maybe you just decided to become a minimalist.
Remember when we had that big wind? You know, the giant gust, the microburst, the thing that Seth thought was a tornado and after it hit he rushed his baby brothers to the basement? And when I got home I saw our shed had exploded all over the cornfield, remember that?
Being the resourceful folks that we are, we decided to make a disaster into a, um, um, well, into a pig pen.
The shed had a trough that I think is an old tank of some sort cut in half, so we used that for the pig trough.
Here’s some asparagus. We have a lot of asparagus. We did not use it to build the pig pen.
We also have four berry bushes, I think they’re blackberry. I put cages that I found in the barn around them so we wouldn’t mow over them…..again. We didn’t use blackberry bushes to build the pig pen either.
We did use a lot of poles we found and lumber and sheet metal from the exploded shed.
Hey kid, did your mother cut your hair? Is that a homeschool do or what? Good thing you’re so cute or people might make fun of ya.
Here’s what’s left of the shed after we, and by we I really mean Clay, because my contribution to building the pig pen was making suggestions like, “How about you take that pole and use it for one of the corners?” and “Look you don’t need to buy hinges because there’s a door with hinges behind the barn.” and “You look very cute with your tool belt. Keep up with the good work, I’m going inside now.” I was immensely helpful.
We still have plenty of lumber left to build something else, like an addition to the house. No? You don’t see master bedroom suite laying right there on the ground? Try squinting a bit.
See the door with hinges? Isn’t it cute? Well, as cute as an old barn door can be on a pig pen.  So, what cost $29 bucks? Well, amazingly we still didn’t have enough of the correct size boards. See all the bright yellow boards? Those are new. $29 new.
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2 bouquets of fake berry-stick-leafy things $0.50, I know they’re fake and I love real flowers, but I’m also cheap and I like nature- looking stuff and unless I’m growing the flowers, I usually don’t buy fresh flowers to keep in the house for everyday use….so stop judging my fake flower purchases! They are cute and pretty phlbbbbbt!
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