Busy Spring Days

Time to walk the dog! It's been so nice out- Ringo is enjoying his morning walks! 

There little red tulips pop up every year by the gate. No where near where the rest of them are.  

It's yard sale days now that the weather has turned nice. It was Community wide sales in Williamsburg and I got a sand box for Dilly. 

Including the sand! Only $10! What a steal!
 

Hubs went in to have his aneurism fixed. Here he is waiting to go into surgery. Everything went great and he only had to stay overnight and he was home again! 

Dilly has been having a great time in the yard. 

The sand box is a big hit.

Look what Mommy did! She gave him a man pony tail! 

Drew was pretty excited about the sand box too. They are having a good time with the sand toys too. 

This kid is a real escape artist-it only took him a minute to figure out the latches on the sliding door.

So, Aunt Jean told me to get an adjustable curtain rod! I said holy cow, I've got one of those in the closet! Works like a charm to keep the kiddo in. 

I haven't had much time to sew, but this quilt is coming along! More to come later!

Yard Sale, Patio and Dirty Work

 So the 13,14,15th was the city wide yard sale in North Liberty. I'm not sure who had the bright idea to yard sale for three days, but........

There were 260 yard sales listed on the group's social media. 

Dilly had the right idea I think. We spent 3 days moving stuff in and out of the garage as the weather changed. Andrew's Gramma had so much stuff! It was amazing. We'd get one tote emptied out and she'd magically appear with another one! 

Dilly and Drew made their own fun with the ball of string. 

So cute...and Dirty! Speaking of dirt....I hired an outfit to come and landscape a little bit of our back yard. American Outdoor Services came and got started on a new patio for us!

This is the backside of the house, the East side.

They'll be bringing in cement tomorrow. 

And they will be doing a drainage improvement in the front yard. Adding dirt and re routing the downspout drain so it goes away from the house better. 

But that means that the daylilies and other bulbs out front need to be dug up or they will be buried and die. DD came over and dug for two days to get them out to safety. It was so HOT, she worked so hard, now I hope they will survive until we get them back in!

Here's a before look at the side with the A/C all overgrown and weedy. 

And here it is ready for more work.

Here's the cement!

And here are Dilly's hand prints forever in the cement. He wanted to grab it, so they are a little claw-like, but WE all know who they belong to!

I'm loving this cement!

Look here the back is finished-they need to bring in a little bit of dirt, but it's too muddy after a lot of rain last night, so they will try to bring it on Monday. The guys started the work on the South side, and it's shaping up well. It's so HOT, these guys are really earning their money this week!

Doesn't that look nice? So much better than the weeds! American Outdoor Services propertymaintenance.com/# Has done a great job so far.

Now just to get the front done, hopefully on Monday!

Cleaned up to Enjoy July 4th Antique Sales

I spent some time getting the garage cleaned out after the yard sale! I wanted to be able to have this all done so I could go to the antique sales on the 4th of July.  All that's left now is the pair of bar stools, and the project chair.

Two truckloads to the Salvation Army store and one trip to the dump and one trip over to Bean's house. 

I'll probably keep the bar stools for now-good garage seating!

The project chair, I dunno......it's cool and all, but I dunno......

and I have one bin of fabric that is left-it needs to go, I'm going to call the library and see if they would like it.  If they don't then-it's going to the buy nothing group.

The milkweeds are now blooming and smell so good!

SO, I went over to Amana to the Firecracker Forth Antique sale on Monday. 
 They had a LOT! 

But I thought a lot of the prices were pretty high! $85 for that Corelle matching pitcher!

I am still loving these metal picnic baskets, but I'll leave this one....$50

Here's a little surprise, a featherweight and priced at only $375, which is not too bad if it's working.

Lots to see, and it was crazy hot and muggy out so the indoor venue was good!

To much for these Christmas ornaments........

Look, this frog frog was $150.00...nope, not for me!

I loved seeing this basket! It is a real charmer!  The lid construction is really unique-probably a Hawkeye basket, But not for $139.00, the lady said she'd do $130, thank you, but not for me!

$45 for this basket......

Who knew ??? Pincushions? $15.00? What???

Now this was a really unique basket, I'm not sure what it was made to hold, likely not a picnic, but it was very nice! $275.00

So much to see in two buildings and a bit outdoors too. 

 

So on to Mount Vernon tomorrow on the 4th of July. 

The only bit of green glass I've seen so far! 

There was only one block of vendors this year , so it wasn't too bad in the heat of the day. 

I did find a picnic basket to come home with me only $3.00!! They had quite a few vendors over at the Backyard pickers store also in Mount Vernon. So I popped over there too. 

The Back Porch Pickers store is very big!

Hey, Lookie there, finally a piece of Jadeite!

Look at all of the pyrex!

And a little bit more of the green glass.....

Seemed like an OK price, but DD doesn't need any more plates like these. 

I would have bought a different basket while I was here, but the line to check out......

NOPE! I have one more sale to go to!

I head out to the Johnson County Fairgrounds for their annual sale. 

So much stuff, By far the biggest sale of the day!

And lookie here, green glass! I got a couple of things at this sale, so much fun stuff to look at. And I'm home by 2pm, to cool off!