SALE, SALE, SALE…..

And so it was…
All weekend plus a few days ….I was so busy that I forgot to take pics until just before the end of the day on Sat…..

so what you are seeing in these pics… are what was left…I had the place packed with stuff you could hardly walk around it all…right after this pic I sold the 49 star flag..I had it in different places thru out the weekend…mostly it was rolled up leaning on something or other…when I unrolled it and put it on that tree it sold right away…

Then on Sunday morning …
I got up at 4:30am in order to leave by 5:30…so I could get a good spot at the flea market..I used my sisters mini van…

The place was packed…and a ton of people showed up to buy…and they sure did…I did very well here and at the yard sale I had..so I was a happy camper going to the bank on Mon. morning…below is a pic of the vendors in the row behind me…the only thing I bought was a bag of kettle corn…I took my breakfast and lunch so I would not have to buy food…the weather for the day was cool, breezy, and cloudy as you can see the sky in this pic..

And the rest of the story…
I was totally exhausted and on Monday I forgot and missed my Mammogram so had to redo for Wed….been doing laundry before the next rain bands come thru…and trying to figure out when and how to have next sale….like I said before…not much to blog about…I am running out of pics to post also..unless I go back and get some of the pics I took off my old computer…I am still tired so not sure what I will be doing….the grass needs mowed…ugh…if anyone wants to leave a comment…grammynmaggie love to read them…and at least I will know someone is reading my drivel..lol …so again thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings G&M

MORE SIDEWALK SAGA…

I left you last post….

where they had come back and started to play around in the sidewalk hole…so after that they brought in this jack hammer type thing that pounded down the dirt…

The the other back hoe with the bucket thing on it…like a scoop…brought some nice smooth gravel and they put  that in….

And now boys and girls…

you have a properly prepared side walk hole ready to receive a nice load of cement…that they told me would be poured on Mon. ….

So fast forward to Mon…….

and true to their word they were here first thing in the morning with the cement truck….

and started right to work…I think that they  came to my house first…there were no other sidewalks to be cemented close to me….

doing the finish work…it didn’t take them very long to do this part….(the cementing)

And here you have it….

The finished sidewalk…that got dug up in …and no one could ever tell me why…

As you can see….

I don’t have much to blog about right now..except what is going on in my life right now in PA….no travel, no camping, but I am wanting to camp out sometime soon with some family members…hope they can work it out soon….as the count down has started for my return to Florida…most likely I will be leaving in about 6 weeks…that would make it mid Sept…possibly before…Had a very back breaking and tired 3 day weekend…well if you count Thurs. in that would make it 4 days… I set up for yard sale that day…then Fri. & Sat. yard sale..then Sun set up at the flea market..I will tell you all about that next post…I know one thing ..I can not do physically the things I use to do… so after this house/down sizing thing is over with…I will just act like I am retired and have fun…with light work loads…what ever that means. lol…that’s it for this post…thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings G&M

THE SIDEWALK SAGA….

Long about 4: 30pm
on Wed. they still had not come and put any thing up marking that there was a huge hole in the side walk…I put the flags there…and most of the men had left….

but there were 3 of them still working on a corner down the street…so I walked down and ask if they were ready to leave…yes they said…so I ask them about marking my hole where the side walk should be…well they forgot..so they did bring some cones up…

This morning after the rain..
They came back and used cement saw and fixed everything up….after that they left again…about hr later they came back and put 2x4’s in side walk hole like it was ready to pour the cement in…..I don’t think sooooo….some time later a supervisor came along to inspect it…I goes out and start talking to him…I think it is a pretty big slab to be one piece of sidewalk worry about it cracking in the winter …as things do here in PA…if not reinforced …he says oh it will be ok…I said well they put re-bar in the large sidewalk in front of my drive way…he says it will be ok…I just looked at him…now mind you there is just dirt at bottom of about 6in side walk hole…nothing else and they are goin to pour cement in this !! then he left…well he must have figured out I sort of knew what I was talking about …..

because about 10 min later I see coming down the street a back hoe…large dump truck and another back hoe type machine with a big scoop on it…and about 4 men…

And they start to play in the hole….lol…digging it much deeper and stomping around it it…you can see my yard sale tables I started to put up…in the above pic along with the back hoe and man stomping in the hole…
And the rest of the story…
I will tell you next post…thanks for looking and come back soon blessing G&M

WHAT THE MAN SAID & A PROJECT…

This is one of the many dirt roads….
all around the main damn area and beyond…you can get a good work out hiking on these roads…they don’t have any “trails” at this area but I did see some on the Ohio side of the lake…and I am sure there are others on the PA side also…just a left over pic from my adventure on Sun.


And now on to this….
I mainly am going to post about this because I want to remember what I was told on this day..since I will be leaving for FL in Sept. and not sure all this will be done before I leave…they did this early this morning…pic below..

Then a supervisor came along …so I went out to talk to him..told him about this part of my drive way that the borough ripped up last Sept. and said it would get repaired when they did the new water lines…supper told me that the borough was responsible for it but they would probably pay them to fix it…so it is noted here…on this day…

He also told me that any thing the tore up they would replace and fix…they are going to have to move my water hook up (the blue marker) to the other side of the side walk or right on the side walk but it will be replaced….

also the chipped some of the side walk when removing this side walk and digging this hole and filling it up with gravel…all done before I got here in May…

So where the pink paint is …that will be fixed also…not really sure why they dug that side walk up…cause there is not water line or  hook ups there..any way it looks like they are going to be fixing it soon…
Now on to my project…
I am getting antsy wanting to do some things…like creative things…so yesterday I dug out this old lamp from the yard sale pile…I am needing a lamp for my desk by my computer…and figure this would work…but not the ugly 1970’s olive green it was painted…(forgot before pic) so I went ahead and sprayed it white…it has a white round globe that goes on it…but I put this fancy globe on it for now..I think it is a little small but I like it…if I end up selling it I will put the round globe back on,…it really is not very creative but made me fell better anyway…rain today so guess I will work in the garage and basement today between rain drops…have stuff need out of the basement yet so I can clean and finish the dry lock and paint the floor…but have to clean up the garage so I have some place to put said stuff…never ending circle…lol…all the while keeping an eye ball on the work men..not because I think they are cute..but cause I am not at all sure they know what they are doing…you get different answers from different men…makes me think left hand doesn’t know what right hand is doing guess that’s it for now thanks for looking and come back soon…blessing G&M

SECOND PART OF MY GET-A-WAY

PYMATUNING STATE PARK…
This is the main damn and gate house…use Google and find out more about the state park that spans two states…here are some peeps that rented kayaks …the people from Riverside Park ….hauled their kayaks up for the festival…it was limited where you could go but looked like fun….

This is the over flow to the right of the gate house…I wonder how often it over flows…there were some nice pretty lily pads floating around…

Other events at the festival…
Here are some Civil War reenactments going on…a group had set up camp…this was the firing of a canon….Maggie did not like this at all…..was a little hard on the ears…and she was scared…after that for about and hour she was very needy and wanted carried around.. 

I also walked around their encampment and found a few interesting things…the first tent I came to (below) looked like it might have been and officers tent…sleeping in back and table/desk and daily needs in front..there was no one around to ask…

Then I ran across this …a stove…now not sure I would want to haul this thing around to cook on..like the tripod with cast iron – open fire cooking better…

but if you were cooking for an army this would be much better…put the fire wood in the box and cook many items at one time on the top,…

This lady was cooking something called banana butter…like apple butter,,,it did not look so good but it sure smelled good..I told her it smelled wonderful …then she told me it also had rum in it …no wonder!

lol…and this below is a whole new level of what goes on around the “water cooler” at the office…

The rest…
There were some old tractors…not the civil war era but still old..the were all refurbished and had shiny new paint jobs on them… kind of boring to me…now if they were really old and not painted I think that would have been interesting…there were pontoon boat rides, Abe Lincoln was walking around giving out pennies along with a short history lesson…lot of good food…band playing good music…and just nice sitting by the lake…nice sunny day on Sunday…getting closer to my first moving yard sale..so  I will be setting up my tables on wed/thru so I can have a head start on the sale by opening on Friday…might rain on Sat. …I bet you all will be glad when all my sale stuff is finally done and I have something to blog about…lol..all for now thanks for looking and come back soon….. blessings G&M  

A DAY AT PYMATUNING STAT PARK…

Pioneer Days …..
art festival was held this last weekend …it was a little more than just an art/craft show…this pic was taken in mid afternoon…lot of peeps showed up for this festival…I will tell you about the art/craft in this post…
Some of the art wares …
being sold were these beautiful walking stick and unique bird houses…and of course they had the general made in China stuff to,..but most was hand crafted …

And this man was at booth full of hand painted slate…with all kinds of paintings on them…my DD and I use to paint on slate…although not like these…and we did well selling them..I think I made a previous about how much we made off my old slate roof!

This is part of the booths that were in the art/craft section…I got there early in the morning about 9 am or so…needed to make sure I could find a place to park the rig .there were not very many peeps there yet,,as you can see…the only thing I bought was the kettle corn and a foot long chili dog…for dinner…brought lunch with me….

Speaking of parking…

 they acted like they never seen an RV before could not figure out where I should park…I suggested parking so the road out was in front of me so all I had to do was pull out…Oh ok …well they made me park by this pole I stayed away from it as far as I could…then wouldn’t you know they parked a pick up right up close to me on the other side….well I spent the whole day there …so figured it would be gone by the time I left…wrong…ended up moving their  parking sign that was across the road in front of me so I could pull across the road and into the grass in order to make a wide swing out so my backend would not hit the pick up…what is with people..don’t they know that I have a big back end to get out also…I see this in parking lots..I park way way far away and doesn’t some nut pull right on top of me…maybe they want to get hit so they can get a new vehicle …anyway that is my soap box for the day…lol…

And the rest of the story…

I will tell you about in the next post…what else was at the festival….got home about 4 pm…watched the news…trying to find out about a murder we had here in town last week…a well know business man…was found murdered in his home with 70 stab wounds…they are not saying much…but at least they are not telling the public to stay inside, be on the look out, for a deranged murderer …I think it must have been someone he knew or a family member…he had very lucrative auto junk yard  business in the area with 3 or 4 locations …been here over 50 years….he was 76…ended up watching the Medgar Evers story sad but great story of his life…until 11pm then took some time to get to sleep..and this morning I feel  like crap…I need to be in bed before 10pm in order to get to sleep and not be hung out the next day…I don’t seem to sleep well and need to get that extra hr early….other than doing some laundry and priceing a few things…it will be a slow day for me…all for now thanks for looking and come back soon blessings&M

PILING UP & A PARK

Things are starting to pile up…
 Kind of slow last couple days…yesterday I made a zillion trips up and down the stairs…bring stuff and boxed down for the sale…

You can hardly walk in the living room…dinning room is not much better….no pic’s of that…sorry they are so dark click and open to see better….I am ready for this to be done…the first sale will be held a week from today..Aug  3…the east side neighborhood is have it’s annual yard sale and tons of peeps come …so figured that would be my first sale..working alone I can not do a big moving sale so will have several smaller moving sales…will put up my moving sale signs at the end of several main streets leading to my house…

Not much to blog about…
so I thought I might show you a county park that I checked out last year and plan on making it one of my get away camping spots..I think it about 30 miles or so from Dads…There is a day use area as well as camping …

It is just before you get to Sebastian Inlet St Park..down US A1A on the east coast of FL….

I am thinking it might be a little easier to get a camping site in the winter than most places in FL..especially during the week…if you want to check it out here is a link   http://www.brevardcounty.us/ParksRecreation/Campgrounds/LongPoint/Home
There are a lot of on the water sites..but those in the middle are only a little walking to the water….you can pretty much see water from every site….as I remember…

Any way….
I am planning this and Wickham Park as my go to get away camping…if anyone anytime want to join me or go …let me know I most likely will be available….would love some mini GTG’rs…Today it is cool and cloudy so far but rain is on the way…looking at my weather bug radar…so it will be inside today…not sure what I will be doing but I can tell you it will not be hard…I think I wore myself out this week…so this is it for now…thanks for looking and come back soon… Blessings G&M