Deer Camp Sale

[gja1000]

Hi All! I've been gone since Thursday helping Gary with the deer camp sale. WE SOLD EVERYTHING! YAY!!! Gary and his uncles/cousins/friend had gone down last week to get things semi-ready for the sale. Gary and I went down Thursday and the sale was Fri/Sat/Sun. Let me tell you what it was like in south Texas on Friday - IT WAS A MONSOON! The area is semi-desert - but we had 4 inches of rain on Thurs/Fri. It was a mess! The sale was advertised to start on Friday and although it was still raining and the dirt driveway was a muddy/rutted mess, we prevailed. We only had one pickup get stuck. Gary has a 4 wheel drive FJ cruiser so we pulled it right out. We had lots of customers in the rain and sold about 2/3 of everything.

The sun shone brightly on Sat. and MAN-O-MAN did we have customers!!! We were almost completely sold out by 11:00AM. We only had odds and ends left and then a man came from the prison ministry. There's a prison about 5 miles down the road and this organization has a home that family can stay in to visit the prisoners at low or no cost. So, we gave them everything that was left. WHEW! We were so glad to be finished.

Gary and I came home today and brought back a pickup load of things that we wanted to keep. The pickup is still loaded - hope it doesn't rain, but we are too pooped to unload it! There is no rain in the forecast - hope the weather man knows what he's doing! LOL! Gary and his friend will go back down next Sat. to get one more load of outdoor stuff - mostly two big ice chests, a wood spliter, and a few odds/ends tools.

I was driving home today with an interesting "item" in the front seat beside me (see pic below). The second pic is my "prince on the pea". It's hard to tell but Rowdy is laying on top of 3 blankets. He was really glad to be home - they had to stay with Brooke while we were gone.