BEST YARD SALE EVER….

We drove all over the country…
side looking for one last yard sale…but it was worth looking for…I did not buy anything but…the lady had a large cement pond next to the garage …with these in it…..this one pink

and theses…..this one is yellow but did not turn out that color in my pic…

And best of all these….
This lady had hundreds of these Koi..all different sizes and colors…I guess at one point in time…(not sure if now) she sold them to landscape businesses  and also..anyone that wanted to  buy for their pond…click on pic to open bigger…

The big Koi are at least 2ft or more…and such color…they were beautiful to watch…

And on to less exciting sales…
Got this little jewel for only $3 at another sale…it was clean as a whistle..not sure it was used much at all…I cant believe I found such a good deal…it seems like when I am looking for something or needing something it pops up at a yard sale…in great if not pristine conditions…My angels looking out for me….

At same sale got these Tupperware items for the RV also…

Had a great day….
with my sister…we went out early then I had to get ready for my doc appointment …then she came and picked me up and we continued on and then went to lunch…just a drive thru…lol….got home and Maggie really gave me what for…cause I left her for our second outing took her the first time…did not do much the rest of the afternoon …it was just way to hot….I want to set up at the flea market tomorrow…going to use my sisters van…so I better get busy and figure out what I want to take….so thanks for looking and come back soon… blessing G&M

OLD HABITS DIE HARD…..

Boy do they ever….
It’s in my blood …as they say…going to yard sales and flea markets…two of my favorite things to do…even tho..(I promise) I don’t buy much …I went today with my DS and BIL,,,it really helps that I don’t have a car….keeps me away from them…but I rarely say no when ask….

Things that look like this…..
pull me right in!!! Got the old sewing box pic below at this one…

This one looked good….
but held nothing for me….seen a life vest for a dog but too big for Maggie girl…new to boot.. oh well …to bad…

Vintage plastic sewing box….
was filled to the brim…I cleaned it out and threw away the junk and this is what was left…these boxes and button boxes are like treasure chest to me…love digging thru them…

A sewing box within a sewing box…
This little gem was in side the big sewing box ..cute little thing …with mostly all wood spools of thread…and a tiny tomato pin cushion….

A few more goodies that were in the box…
I am not showing everything…take up too many pics …here are some of the best goodies…

My kind of yard sale….
I got this stuff at what I call my kind of yard sale…a ton of old junk and vintage…back in the day when I had my store I would have wiped her out…love this …

Now before you’all start on me….
Let me tell you I have plans for everything I got today…I have decided that I need to make some money in order to play more in my RV…so I will be doing that when I get back to Florida…first off I am going to start an Etsy store ….I use to sell a lot on Ebay..so I pretty much know what I am doing…first  I will need to do some research and see what the good folks in cyber land are buying and go from there…I know some..but need more info..and then I want to start selling at flea markets with my product and also a few shows… art/craft and antique/vintage…so everything I got today will be refurbished and resold in another form..of one sort or another..I have a knack and a talent for this so I might as well use it while I still can and have some fun….I have been wanting to get back into some kind of part time business for some time now but…some of the life happenings just got the better of me and I have not done it…but I have to tell you now I am feeling much better and I am ready now to go for it…so that’s my story and I am sticking to it…thanks for looking and come back soon
blessing G&M

YARD SALE & A CACHE 0R 2 OR 3

A GEO-PILE.....This is a typical geo - pile, sticks too can be a geo - pile. This was easy to find and I don't think I am giving anything away. We went out on Sun. looking for a few caches, after a dismal week before, I went for some easier ones. Even tho last week was suppose to be easy. This was the first find of the day and I dropped a TB here. THE CACHE.....And this was what the cache looked like. Nice on for leaving stash. Amo box. CACHE IN THERE SOMEWHERE.....This cache was just put out this year, but I sure think I looked of one here last year. Maybe it got archived, and a new one was put out. The GPS was bouncing around a bit but I found it in about 5 min. ANOTHER CACHE.....This is the third one we found, a typical guard rail cache. Magnetic.

YARD SALE FIND.....I have been looking for one of these for awhile now. It is a potpourri melter the were very popular a few years ago. I want it to melt bee's wax.

BEE'S WAX FOR MAKING CANDLES......So a few yard sales later I found this,what luck, they are sheets of bee's wax that is used in making those wrap candles. Bee's wax is not cheap, but these were $ for about 1 lbs. I was a happy yard sale lady!Came right home and plugged in pot and put in some wax and bingo...it worked great so I added more and now have a pot full of bee's wax to use in my art work. Now I have to go and read up on how to do it. Still working on getting read to have a yard sale to get rid of more house hold items, and do a few flea markets. Son is going to put a new support post in basement next week. Hope to get painting all the trim up stairs soon. I am having problems getting this stuff done. I do not want to do it!

All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.

Blessings

G&M

YARD SALE GOODIES

FRANCISCAN WARE PLATE...Got three small plates and one dinner plate. These were made in the USA. In mint condition. Should I sell them or keep them and use them??? Hmmmm what to do?DESERT ROSE PATTERN.....I have always loved this pattern and could never afford it. I cant believe how cheap these were at a yard sale. VINTAGE MILKSHAKE GLASSES.....These I believe are from the 1940's I have been looking for them on the Internet and that is what I found.THREE LARGE ONES.....I remember going to Isley's with my mother, and drinking chocolate milk shakes out of ones just like these. Isley's made the best shakes ever. It was a real treat to do this, and it didn't happen very often. That was back in the day when you went shopping on main street, everything was located there, including the soda shop. Mom would go in there to get chip/chopped ham. The three small ones were used for making suday's in. I want to keep these too!
I am starting to get in the groove for getting things done. Cleaned down stairs today, got a few more things ready to sell. Mowed the yard and got more yard work done. 3 loads of laundry washed and hung out. I feel like I am on a roll now.
All for now thanks for looking and come back soon
Blessings
G&M

YARD SALE

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL YOU MOM’S!

Took Maggie out and about Sat. We went to a few yard sales I got this iron votive holder to use as a stencil for my art projects. I twisted of the round votive holders so the would not be in the way while I spray.

I got this plastic box thing to use the same way. I took the box apart so it could be used in a better way. We also found a neat cache over at the beach. I was at one of the access parks to the ocean. I didn’t take a pic because it would have given the hid away if anyone here in Florida would happen to read my blog. But it was hid under a sea shell. We went up to the Patrick AFB area, while we were crossing the bridge there were a bunch of fighter jets comeing in to base, wow was that awesome!!! I seen a bunch of cars pulled off to the side, was wondering what was going on when BOOM I heard then. Took me a while to pull of get out and get phone camera on, and by that time they were done. So much noise as the were landing right there. Almost scary! So any way no pic’s.

That’s it for now thanks for looking come back soon.

Blessings Donna

BALLFIELD CACHE, YRD SALE, FLEA MARKET

CACHE BEHIND THE FENCE

THE CACHE

YARD SALE AT SON'S

FLEA MARKET SET UP

BROOKIE AT FLEA MARKET WEATHER: HOT HOT AND HOTTER! Temp today was 92. Thats all I have to say about that!

What's been going on around here, well , a lot! Son and I have been working in the basement, cleaning sand stone walls that had dry-loc put on about 25 yrs ago, and was chipping. Then we painted new dry-loc on the walls. We got about 3/4 of it done. Then we started working on a yard sale we wanted to have at his home last Friday. Did that then next day Sat. we set up at a flea market, seems he has been bitten by the flea bug!! Anyway that's a lot of packing and unpacking and again and again. The one pic has my G-Daughter in it she did a great job of helping at both yrd sale and flea marked and even sold some stuff she has out grown, now that she will be a "teenager" in Aug. The other flea market pic is of our set up, the white car and truck is our spaces, we got side by side so we could share the tables.

I have not had time to do any caching, but there is a pic of one I did not long ago. It is a new listing but I was not the FTF. It is at a local ball field, behind that fence you see. Also behind the fence was mosquito city, and other biting bugs. WoW, I got a line of bites on my ankle that dove me nuts all week after I visited there.

This week I have been working inside most of the day because of the heat. I did some land scape early in the mornings. I am gathering up and sorting again, never ending job at this point.

My daughter and son in law are coming on sat to get some things that I had for decorative painting she is going to use the stuff. It will be nice to see them. I think we will be going out to my brothers to have a weeny roast in the afternoon. Nothing formal just who ever shows up.

Then on sunday we will be setting up at the flea marked again.

All for now.

Happy Caching

G&M

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CACHE, YARD SALE, BUSY WEEKEND

YARD SALE READY

BIG SALE

CACHE HIDING PLACE

MICRO CACHE WEATHER: Rainy and storms last two days. Sat and Sun were great, but hot 87.

Well I was all ready by 7am on Sat morning. Expecting the crush like the last two yrs. But it never happened. I think it was because there were sooooo many yard sales for this weekend. On a busy weekend there would be normally 10 - 12 sales advertised in the local paper. This weekend there were 50 advertised! On Sun afternoon I was talking to a customer and telling her about this and she said, hey that was only half of them, there were so many not advertised she said they were all over the place. I did not make 1/10 th of what I should have. That means I have to work extra hard and do more sales and flea markets. I did sell a lot but they wanted it for practically nothing so the dollars did not add up fast. It was a lot of work, for very little $$ this time. Enough complaining on to the caching.

I did not do any caching this week or weekend, so here is one we found last weekend. It a micro on a stop sign. In the pic you can see how small it is beside my red ink pen. It was pretty obvious where it was as there was noting around but the stop sign. Found it really easy.

I got the stain/sealer for the front porch but with all the rain can not get it on. And it is suppose to rain most of the week, so I will be working on the inside of house. I think I will gather up and pack in totes everything that I think I want to take with me, get that out of the way and start tagging everything else for the tag sale. I still have all the bedrooms to paint, and finish up the bath tub repair, and flooring. Maybe Maggie and I will take a day off and do some caching this week, even if it's in the rain. We need a break!

Don't forget you can click on the pic's to enlarge them.

Happy Caching

G&M

BIKE/WALKING PATH CACHE & MAGGIE

MAGGIE WAITING ON THE TRAIL

THE CACHE IS HIDING

THE CACHE WEATHER:Cold and rainy last few days. Ugh! Temp today 59

The cache of the day is one we found on Sunday. It was on a paved bike/walking trail, not far from where my son lives. There are about 5 or 6 on this trail, the first one I did not find I think it was in the woods a little to far for me to leave Maggie on the trail, as she doesn't like to go in the woods. I don't like to leave her alone. The second one along the trail is the one I took pic's of. Trees made the GPS jump around but I finally found it, using the hint on the web site about a log, but believe me there were lots of logs lying around. I was a green camo'ed plastic jar gal size I look for travel bugs but none to be found this time. By the time I found this one it was time to go eat dinner with son and family. I will be back another time for more.

You can see Maggie waiting on the trail for me in the first pic. You can click on the pic's to make them bigger. She is such a good dogie just sits and waits for me, no hassle at all.

The last few days with all the nasty weather outside I have been working in the basement. Wow

what a job, sometimes I have to go through things twice because I think I will need something or what ever, then go back and say I DO NOT NEED IT! "When" I get it all cleaned out I will put that dry locke stuff on the walls , I did it about 25 yrs ago and it has held up good. The foundations is what they used 100 yrs ago , sand stone, and it flakes over time. This is just one of many many jobs I have to do before renting or selling. I think need to have a yard sale soon to help free up some space. I am going to have a huge one Memorial Day weekend at my brothers house, he lives on a main road to Pymatuning State Park and is a very busy road. Always do good there on a busy weekend.

Well that's all for now stay tuned see what tomorrow brings.

Happy Caching

G&M

BUSY & A CACHE

MICRO TREE HIDE

MICRO
LOG IN THE MICRO

WEATHER: Cool today high 58 but sunny
Hi everyone, sorry I've been away so long been really busy and too tired to blog at nite. So I think I will try and do it in the afternoon. Found this cache the other day after 3 tries. It is a micro hid in a tree. I'm not sure I like those hard to find. You have to look in every nook and cranny. Found another one I have visited several times will blog about it another time.

We finally were able to have the yard sale! Dad did very good, sold over 1/2 of what we had out.

Took what clothes that were left to goodwill next day.

This has been the coldest winter in over 30 yrs here in Fl , of course it would be when I came. I get accused of binging with me. The killing frost they had before I got here killed of a lot of beautiful foliage, what a shame.

We are going to the Strawberry Festival in Plant city next weekend, looking forward to that. I will take pic's. I will be heading back to PA around the 25th of march, it's been a short winter. I suppose that having no snow helps it along! I guess at home they are getting pounded with snow this winter, and I thought it was bad before I left!

I really love FL and cant wait to come back. (even before I have left lol)

I will have pic of yard sale tomorrow.

G&M