Bonus: Saturday Garage Sales

Weather: cool and misty early, sunny and warmer as the day went on

Remarks: we joined G + M in Bellvue early to do some saleing around that area. We found some good sales, met some interesting people, stopped into a newly-opened recycle/thrift store in Ft Collins, and spent some time looking around Jax outdoor-activity-supply-store. Interestingly, the Ft Collins thrift store is in a building where Mick once worked, making hamburger patties, in 1968,69 and 71. It was occupied by a meat wholesaler at the time and Mick was a college student at CSU. Mick had an interesting conversation with the man running the thrift store as he toured the building and saw the changes that had been made since his last visit.

Amount spent: $19.10 - .35 found in CD case side pocket = $18.75


^ FELIX! (don't want any fans to overlook his appearance!)

• (almost impossible to see in the top left corner) pair of speakers-$6.00 (Gail bargained these down from the marked price of $20! She is a great bargainer!)
• 2 plastic baskets w/ handles (holding books)-50 cents each
• 7 (bright blue) silicone baking pans-25 cents each
• Japanese-style lamp made from wood and paper, needs some work-$1
• round stainless steel holder for???-50 cents
• set of Japanese style paper laterns on a string of white Christmas lights-$1
• spirograph-25 cents
• digital meat thermometer, probe and remote unit-$5
• case logic CD case-25 cents

These books came to a total of $2.35. One sale was offering paperbacks for 10 cents and hardcovers for 25 cents, I bought most of these there. The graphic design and airbrush books were from the thrift store, they were a bit pricier, but $2.35 is still a steal for this haul!


There have not been a lot of grasshoppers around here this summer, so while we were spending some time relaxing in the cuuhcuuh's nest after saleing and lunch, I took a walk around and managed to catch 3 hoppers. I brought them home and gave them to Attie and Rita to play with. They love grasshoppers and had a lot of fun taking turns stalking them. Attie eventually dispatched and ate all 3. Yum!

While we were sitting in the top floor of the "nest" enjoying a beautiful, tranquil afternoon, a doe and a fawn (mule deer) spent some time in the front yard. We had a great view of them, the mother spent most of the time grazing, and the baby spent most of the time bounding around and frolicking in the yard. It was wonderful watching the baby, it would run all around the yard and was obviously having a great time. It seemed to especially like bounding in and out of the "pond," a hole left (and now grown over with grass and shrubs) by excavation of the fill dirt for the house. It would leap to the bottom of the pond in a single bound, then run back up the incline and put on a big burst of speed when it hit level ground. A couple of times the fawn wandered out of the mother's sight, once behind some trees into the neighbor's yard and a couple of times in an area with lots of trees behind the old barn. It was interesting to see how the mother would stop eating and listen attentively when she couldn't see the fawn. It was a very interesting and very touching thing to watch the two of them enjoying a nice sunny, cool afternoon.