Longview Hills @ Newport Oregon

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THE SALE OF THE YEAR

Phew! That was quite a sale Saturday, and I can now walk into my storage area in the garage without climbing over and under things. Those things are now history, and my wallet a little better off. I'm trying to decide how to put the dollars back into the economy. Bet you didn't know how patriotic I am. Of course, there are always lunches out with the 'girls"; maybe put it towards a little sprucing up of my family room; can always thumb through my Lands' End catalog and find something I can't live without; definitely, a few bucks for a couple large bags of dog food for the Newport animal shelter; and nipper could use a couple new tennis balls since she managed to drop two of hers into a paint bucket as son, Ron, was painting......I think I'm broke already!

I stayed open until 3:45, and people still came in with their quarters and dollar bills. Cheap sale items. Nice, nice people, all of them. Friendly, talkative, and very polite. As you know it was cold and windy, and my patio sale became very popular. Do you sit and keep your ears open to some of the conversations going on? One that I overheard was so funny, well to me anyway. I had some really nice cotton bath towels bundled up into twos....two for $1.50. One man (may I say an elderly man?) wanted to buy a couple sets. His wife told him they didn't need any more towels. He insisted, she persisted and guess who won? Her last "NO" was very loud and final. One young family with small children looked everything over, and the father became very interested in a fishing pole for sale. The little boy of the family very firmly told his dad he didn't need anymore fishing poles!! Out of the mouths of children. Do you think he picked that up from his mother? Once again the pole is stored away.

Tomorrow begins another month of 2003. Fall is on the way and hopefully rain to follow. Oh yes, and the old reminder that someone always has to say, "Only four months until Christmas!"