Anyone Need a Scale????

My MIL is needing/wanting to sell her scale, I believe it was a candy scale. It was licensed with USDA until a few years ago, when they sold their feed store. This thing is huge, heavy, and neat!!! No way will I try selling it on the internet, I watched my BIL lift it and it about killed him, so it's not shipping feasible. I wouldn't mind inheriting it, but where would I put it? Anyway, if you are in Oregon or Southwest Washington, it would be accesible w/o shipping. Take a look!

A Day With Faye!!

We were expecting to have a couple friends coming, so we thought we'd have a light lunch, then we were going to some other friends' to take a look at all their primitives. That didn't work out, so, you know, we called the kids in and had veggie pizza, fresh-off-the-tree cherries, a few chips, and raspberry lemonade. Yum, that was good.
We didn't want to pass up the visit with Faye, that we were taking our friends to experience (and Faye's house is an experience), so Kristin and I dished up some lunch to take to Faye,and went on ahead for a wonderful visit. She let us take some pictures while we were there. She has the most wonderful ideas, and she is very generous to let us gawk! Thank you Faye, for your hospitality!!
But, I digress! On our way to Faye's, out here in the country, we passed a couple kids with a lemonade stand. So, of course, we had to support the local shopkeepers!! OK, I think it was more like kook-aid or something, but oh well, I try to support lemonade stands.

What's for Lunch?

So, what do you think? I thought it was pretty! My daughter Kristin, came over this morning, and while I was finishing with some of my jobs, she made this great pizza! Veggie Pizza! She found a new crust recipe, added a few things to it, and gosh, now I need to get that recipe from her!

Our County Fair, is a Great County Fair!!

Kristin (dd) and I took the kids, mine younger ones 13, and twins 9, to the Columbia County Fair yesterday. Spent ALL DAY, well, all day and night actually! We got there right after it opened and just about closed it down. I'm still tired! When we first got there, they were have a benefit plant sale, and was it ever WONDERFUL!! I was making a joke that after shopping there, I couldn't afford to take the kids for the rides! But, the deals were so good, that I couldn't pass them up.
The Columbia County Fair has been having a lot of money problems for funding, and out of the generosity of Means Nursery, in Scaapoose, they donated a huge amount of very nice quality shrubs and flowers to sell as a fund raiser. It was wonderful. I got ornamental grasses, in a purple color, for a buck! God a really neat tree-type of bush that was really knarrly and on a variegated burgandy/green color, can't remember the night right off, but it was in a big pot for $12!! Tons of petunias in the big pots, 6 for $1. Many, many different varieties of shrubs, and of course I needed one of several! Guess what I'm doing today???



The fair was nice. I was a little dissappointed in the amount of entries in the canned foods, etc., but the baking was really great! I didn't see a lot of sewing, wonder why I missed that??

The animals are always great, and the kids just had a blast looking at all of them. And of course, the rides! My mind was whirling later, as I spent the whole afternoon trying to keep and out for all these kids going different directions with the arm bands on (23 bucks!!!) ready for every ride they can go on. We had a great time, spent way too much money, but, you know, it's the "experience" of the fair! It's encouraging to see people actually still farm, too!

2 days later & still exhausted!

After many, many days of going down to my MILs to help her unpack her unending belongings, set stuff aside she no longer wanted, go back through and price things (why couldn't I have just priced it as it went into the box the first time?), then haul all of it for a garage sale, then actually doing the garage sale, I'm still so tired my eyes are almost closing as I type. This is just one view, you just wouldn't believe how much stuff there was! In fact, there was so much stuff, that after the sale, we still had a 17 foot uhaul that we took to Goodwill.
We were just scorching it was so hot, then heard that the local food bank would only take a few things, we just decided to get it done and over with. There were so many people there, it was just a hive of activity. I am so glad to have that over with.

My dishes are in a treasury...how cool!!

I'm pretty excited, my melmac dishes got put on a treasury made by Julie of Oakleaf Hollow! How nice, thanks so much for the neat compliments, Julie! And congratulations for getting your treasury published! I don't understand all about Etsy's treasury yet, but I do know it's hard to get yours listed! You can check it out HERE