Our Town

There's a 3 day festival that takes place in our town every year at this time. It's much like a tiny county fair.  It involves a parade, Bingo games in the park, pork chop sandwiches and homemade pies served at the church tent.  There's a carnival with colorful, brightly lit  rides for the kids.  It's a pleasant little weekend in a pleasant little town.  BUT - the best part is the sales.  Garage sales up and down the street.  Church sales, and sidewalk sales.  Here's what I found today!

Stir sticks for my daughter's bar.  I love old stir sticks.

Cool old earrings.

Tiny pink lantern charms. 

Pretty pink rose.

A Betsy McCall bag with surprises inside.

It was full of old, very old baby clothes.

A tiny beautiful baby bonnet.

And beautiful, handkerchief soft tiny baby dresses.

I'm not sure what I'll do with these.

But then,

I never am!

I also bought this game.

A game that is fun for the entire family.

I don't know about the title.

Somehow Probing the family seems wrong.

So very wrong.

On SO many levels.

I bought it because it's basically a box full of letter cards.

It also has these cards:

"IF YOU HAVE A BLANK

EXPOSE IT"

I haven't read the rules yet.

I'm not sure what this means.

I'm pretty sure that it's illegal

in 49 of our 50 states.

I also like

"QUINTUPLE THE VALUE

OF YOUR

FIRST GUESS"

I haven't quintupled the value 

of anything

in years.

Let alone a guess.

And my first guess no less.

How lucky can you be

on a first guess?

I love this card.

I may enlarge it 

and have it framed.

"Take Your Normal Turn"

Some days 

when life is dealing you anything BUT normalcy

wouldn't it be nice

to have a card 

that says,

"Take your normal turn"

So go ahead and take your normal turn.

But, seriously, I wouldn't expose anything.

Just to be on the safe side.