Garage sale weekend! Finally a chance to get some junk out of the house. I took most of Friday off work to help out (especially since Beth had to go to a follow-up appointment for the infected cyst), and boy were we slow. Steady though, I suppose, which I guess isn't too bad for no advertising. We sold off a lot of Mom's trinkets that she had to have when she moved from Arizona, but didn't remember once she got here. Most of her Day of the Dead decorations, a lot of her objets d'art (not the Indian stuff - Laura has that), clothes, the old viola, etc. I sold our old school TV for $5, which is great because it would have cost me $10 to recycle it, which is what I was going to do. Sold all the old VeggieTales DVDs and Muppet Show VHSs, Missy sold a ton of old toys, Alex sold a few Pokemon cards, we sold games and clothes and junk. By the end of the day we were looking a bit picked over, and we didn't sell a whole lot on Saturday but as we found out later, there was a massive community-wide garage sale going on at the fairgrounds this weekend, so not surprising we got little traffic. We're going to plan on another Saturday garage sale next week to hopefully clear out some more clothes, which was what didn't sell the most. Overall though, we did ok, Beth and I made $131, Missy made $76.25, Alex made $31.95, Natalie made $28.75, and the Harrisons made $18.50.
After church on Sunday we all went to Fort Wayne, mostly to visit Mom. She looked good, was alert and clean and we found her glasses in her room (even though she says she doesn't need them). We got her to go downstairs for a walk and sit on the porch outside for a while, which she seemed to enjoy. But she was getting agitated with all of us there after a while so only I took her back upstairs and got her seated in the TV area again, and she didn't try to follow me back out. So a good visit, she still seems to be doing fine there. After leaving the home we went to Toys R Us, just to see if there was anything left. They're about down to bare bones, but I did find a discounted 4-plug charger. Otherwise, they have crap left, priced about like it would be at Wal-Mart. Then we just headed home.
No softball game this week, it was rained out. Even though the rain stopped an hour before the game, and we could have played.