Beth and I had a garage sale this weekend. The Churchills and the Thomases put a lot of stuff together with ours so we had a bunch of junk in our garage. I took Friday off to tend to it. We did a steady business, but it was so windy we kept having to chase clothes around and pick up the display stands that had blown over. We made close to $400 altogether, selling a lot of clothes, toys, books, videos, and junk. Big ticket items that sold were the old swingset ($60), Missy's crib ($50), Alex's crib ($85 - funny story 1), Alex's bike ($10); other noteworthy items were the old garage door opener (funny story 2), both of the old trikes, and kids clothes. We bought 4 big cases of pop to sell (we could quadruple our money by selling it for 50 cents a can) but only 4 cans sold all weekend. Don't know why. Virgil and Sherry brought over tons of old kitchen stuff from his late father's storage spaces (he was a pack rat) and sold nearly all of it. Sunday it was really slow, but steady, all day, so I worked on (and completed) the assembly of the kids' new swingset / slide while the sale went on.

Funny story 1: a large group of Hispanic men, only 1 of whom spoke English, came over to our house late Sunday afternoon (sale was over on Saturday), asking if we still had the crib. The offer/counteroffer process went $100, $70, $90, $80, $90, $80 (his final offer), $85 (my final offer, accepted). The one who spoke English was asking if I had the measure for it. I got out the tape measure and told him how big it was on all sides. He looked confused. I must have too. He asked for the measure again in a minute or so. I told him yes, I had the measurements and told him again how big it was. Finally I realized he was asking for the mattress. That I did not have, as it was worn out when we put the crib away and it went in the trash long ago. He looked at me like I was ripping him off.

Funny story 2: A guy bought the old garage door opener for $5 but needed to leave it here and go home for the truck. Apparently the truck was unavailable because he returned later with the same car. He put the accessories in the car, then picked up the opener, rested the front of it on the passenger side view mirror, and then got into the back, holding the motor end up by hand outside the rear passenger window. Off they went like that. I hope they didn't have to go far.

Anyway, Sunday afternoon we went to Wal-Mart and got Alex a brand new bike which fits him much better, and got Missy a new big kid booster seat just like Alex's. By evening the front tire on the bike was flat as can be and would not hold any air at all. So, we need to get that fixed because Alex was very disappointed.