Our weekend---

Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 08:33

   We had a nice Labor day weekend.  Saturday we did errands, a little grocery shopping and then we had a nice evening with a campfire and we made Smores.. YUMMY.  Our daughter Sue came over with her husband Bill and of course Jaydon and Logan.  We had a good time.  Jaydon was very surprised when we he ran around the house to the back yard and there sat a bike we purchased for him at a yard sale for $10.  Logan already had one that we got early in the season very cheap at Kmart on clearance, so we have been looking all summer for one for Jaydon and low and behold we found one.  Needless to say he was happy and spent most of the evening riding around the back yard.  Kevin, Stacie's boyfriend came too, Stacie had to take my niece to a concert at the Allentown fair, the Jonas brothers (SP?).  I here they are a big band for teenage girls.  My nephew and his wife Rebecca also came along with Kevin's brother BT (I don't even know his real name just that they call him BT).  BT and Kevin are twins but look nothing alike, it's funny.  Then when we were having smores we saw a big flash of light and our electric went out.. UGH!  It was out from about 8:00 to 10:30 but we spent most of the evening outside around the campfire.  We had a good time.  We plan on doing a few more before the cold weather hits.

  Sunday we went to my X sister in law's 40th birthday party/picnic.  We had a nice time, she had a few friends, some of her family and my family, my sisters family and my brother there for the picnic.  She bought a new TV and entertainment center and furniture, her living room was very nice.  I had made a peach pie and a salad as my part to take.  The peach pie dissapeared quickly and the salad was all eaten too.

 Yesterday we had a yard sale, UGH what a dissaster.  Not many came at all, we do live on a back road but it's only 1/2 mile from the main road and we did put signs out.  But come to find out our neighbor about 1/4 away toward the main road also had one and I don't think the people realized that we were having one too, so we plan on having another one in 2 weeks depending on the weather.  This coming weekend we are busy so it will have to wait, I just think of all the work that goes into this, and I figure I will put the stuff up on ebay maybe after this one and donate the rest of the "stuff" I can't sell.  I had 12 bags of diapers out at between $2.50 to $4 a bag and not a one sold.. I couldn't believe it, although most of the people that came were senior citizens and maybe that is why.  We are actually thinking of moving it up to my brothers in a few weeks, (But I still have to get his permission  to do this.  He lives on the main road so maybe we would have better luck there.  I did manage to make $65 though but was hoping for much more with all the stuff we had.  I hope we have better luck in a few weeks.  Then after we packed the things up we went over to my sisters house for chicken, ribs, potato salad and freshly made bread.  Everything was delicious.  We had planned on making steaks on the grill but that will be tonights dinner, with a baked potato and some corn on the cob.  Then our neighbor Joe came over to visit a bit when we got home last night. 

   I am hoping to start posting more things on my blog shortly, my son is going to school for computers and I am hoping he can help me re-vamp my blog.  My blogging friend Miki helped me set up this one ( Thanks Miki) but for some reason when I look at it some of the thing pictures have dissapeared and it's just big blank empty spaces.  I would love to put up a place to make a weekly menu and recipes.  I would love to figure out how to sell some of my stuff on here, I do see some blogs like http://www.cherryhillcottage.typepad.com/cherryhill_cottage/  who sells things from time to time on hers, although it isn't the same kind of things I would sell.  I like ebay and all but boy do there "fees" take a chunk of our money out.  My son has a punching bag and gloves he tried to sell at the yard sale he had paid $75 for it and put $35 or BO on the tag but no one was interested.  Does anyone have any idea's how to sell some things other then ebay.  My friend Chas http://www.homesteadblogger.com/chas/ sells on Etsy but that is homemade things and I do not have a talent for making anything as Chas does.  I do want to say on Chas' Etsy she has pumpkin decorations for sale and I can tell you they are beautiful I had gotten some from her last year and I can't wait to put them out for fall this year.   So if anyone has any idea's please email me or post a comment.

  Well we recieved our pellet stove.  Although it's not in, my sister got one put it up and we had looked at it yesterday when we were down and it's very nice.  Ours is a fireplace insert which her's wasn't but it is the same brand.  We were told that the pellets were in high demand so we bought 2 ton right away and we are so glad we did.  There are none to be found around us anyway and they don't know when they will get more.  They had told us that about 2 1/2 ton should take us through the winter, so hopefully somebody gets some sometime through the winter and we can buy 20 or so more bags.  I know next year we will be buying them in May probably for the following season to avoid this, although we had bought these in July.  I am really going to keep close track how much this saves us on heating costs.  We paid a fortune for oil last year and it wasn't even very cold here in PA so I dread to think of the cost if it would be a "COLD" winter.

   Well today Amanda was to start school and they are on strike, she is bussed out of our school district because she has MR so she was a little dissapointed last night.  They had "talks" yesterday and could not come to an agreement so they will be "closed" until further notice as per my phone call last night.  My neighbor (Joe's wife Lyn) is a teacher down there so we pray this is a quick and speedy thing although by law they can only stay out 21 days, now I am not sure if that is 21 with weekends or not but that takes us almost into October if it's with weekends and in to early October if no weekends.  What I gather out of our conversation with Joe is that they aren't asking for much of anything and there is one guy on the school board that isn't agreeing with what the teachers want.  This school district is one of the lowest paid in the state of PA and what I found is they are a great school district to deal with especially with a special needs child like Amanda.  I have learned so much since we adopted Amanda with special needs schooling and I thank the school district she attends for that.   She is in a "Life skills" classroom and LOVES school.  And she has learned so much because of them.  So I pray for a quick resolution to this.  Our school district doesn't start until Sept 8th so they still have a small bit of their summer vacation left.

   I am hoping to blog more when school gets going.  And like I said I am hoping to change my "blog" look soon if my son helps me . 

I hope you have a wonderful  day on your Homestead.. I plan on picking tomato's and peppers........ and more tomato's and peppers..