More progress

I’ve got a few things to report on, but aren’t really in the mood tonight. First thing is that Sheryn and  went to and auction yesterday and I had a fairly successful day. I got a nice wooden dining table with 6 chairs for $22 – Sheryn and I will recover the cushions in the seats cause they’re a yellow colour at the moment that I don’t like. Recovering is easy (we’ve done it before) so they’ll be fine. I also got a little garden setting (two chairs and a table). They have a proper name, but I forgot what it is. The type was originally made of cast iron, but the newer stuff isn’t (but its still nice). I’ve always thought one would be nice, so now I’ve got one for $24. One of Traci’s friends got to the auction late and couldn’t believe the price I’d paid for those – she said she would have easily gone up to $100 for the dining set and gave up bidding against me for the garden set cause she could see I meant business! But she also said that if I wanted to get rid of it one day, that she would have it. My other purchases were a Clarion cd player (for a car) for $11 – James is always putting things in cars so I thought this would come in useful one day (all our cars except the datsun have cd players, so I guess the datsun can have this one).

 

My last purchase was a big garbage bag full of plastic garden pots which I wanted because I’ve got over 500 bulbs to plant for my transportable garden. Which brings me to today – today I potted up the jonquils, daffodils and freesias. 100 bulbs down, only 400 to go... at least I know what I’ll be doing with any spare time I get in the next few weeks!

 

James will be home again at the end of the week. He was supposed to go up for two weeks, then come home for one, but when he got there his boss said they’d replaced him already so only needed him for one week then he could go. We’re both pretty happy about that cause we’ll get more time together (one week just isn’t enough, but we’d have survived if we had to) and also it means he’ll be home for Kimberly’s 21^st. We haven’t told her yet (going to keep it as a surprise).

 

So anyway, that’s the latest. I’m winding down for the night and think I’m going to go have a glass of red. Does anyone actually read this? I don’t really care – its more of a record for myself, but just wondering? Good night J