A SALE-ING I WILL GO!!

What a beautiful brisk and sunny day we have here on Long Island! It's a beauty out there! Perfect day for me to get back out and do some planting/weed pulling! I was out there before dinner for quite a bit of time pulling some weeds~~you see we had some very heavy rain the two days before that and when we get a soaking rain like we did, the weeds suddenly EXPLODE!They just come out of nowhere. Sooo I must keep up on them. That's just fine with me. Weed pulling is like a form of therapy! You kind of ponder your own thoughts in peace while you pluck!
 I'll be home today and I am happy about that. These last couple of weeks and the ones coming up before school ends the end of June are very hectic but in a good way! We have our last Daisy meeting tomorrow afternoon, and we'll be having games with prizes and an ice cream party! Excited about that! My troop of now 15 girls (!) will be bridging (as they call it) to Brownies in the next school year. I've been out to Girl Scout HQ getting the necessary items, working on registration, and shopping for our party. We also have Caitlin's field day coming up on June 7th which is a really fun day where each of the grades play field games and have lunch and music outside. My sister has joined me to see the kids for this special event every year since Billy was in kindergarten and occasionally my husband can join in to see or one of my sister's adult children ill stop by which is always a treat for Caitlin or Billy.  Good stuff! AND tomorrow is Caitlin's class play!
Last Friday was fun fair at Caitlin's school. I worked the sand art booth. Cotton candy, popcorn, masking tape bracelets (so cute), face painting (Caitlin is a puppy), make a picture frame, and carnival style games was just some of the fun. Wow! By the time school ends you don't want it to because the kids are having so much fun! And they have earned it. We are excited in our community that our high school is ranked #18 in New York state and that our school system is what is rated as a blue ribbon school district. Not bragging mind you---just have lots of community pride! Blessed to live here and happy to see my kids thriving between school and our wonderful church.
We had a lovely Mother's Day that began with an incredible service at Church. They sure know how to make us Moms feel appreciated and special. We each received a book as a gift called "Get off your knees and PRAY!" and a flower. After Church, we headed to the nursery and then home to plant and bbq! Great day!
We decided to do more of our planting this coming Sunday. My husband is still bringing home some great additions to our property--foxglove, snowflake bushes, and several bushes to finish the area around one of our rear porches. If you are patient everything comes! I have discovered that in the past couple of years. Patience is a virtue for sure. I find that if I don't rush into purchase or impulse buy, if it is meant to be, it finds its way to my house. Seriously! It happens more and more. Maybe it always did and  my eyes were not open to realize :)   My eyes and ears are open now! I have wanted to plant up that back porch area because it tends to get muddy and now we will. AND IWAS PATIENT :)
On Saturday, my sister-in-law Linda and I had decided to take the kids down to Northport Village for the park and just relax while they enjoyed themselves. On our way we had decided to follow several signs for garage sales. We stopped at several and I did so well! Garage sales are off to an amazing start this year. I have only gone two days so far this Spring and came home with good stuff both times. In my last post I showed my  lovely shelf for $3--still loving that so much. I have since added some pretty potted plants to it. But on to Saturday--We hit a couple that were duds---then hit a multi family  garage sale in Northport and I was pleased. I got this lovely hand embroidered retro tablecloth that fits my table (yeah) and that was $2. It's lovely and no spots :)  very clean. I got this cool tall vessel..not quite sure what it is but it now become a tall flower container. I'm thinking tall dried branches, pussy willow, etc to fill it. An interesting piece I thought! If you know what it is please tell me! I also got a Betty Crocker cookbook that I am enjoying. AT the next house I found a woman who loves roosters like I do! She sold me an unused "hens & chickes welcome" stake for outside for $2  :) lets see...my husband's favorite item I got for $1 which is this adorable mail holder...see where I hung it. He loved it! I also got a rooster mug holder that I am going to use when I have buffets to hold my mugs. Good stuff. The mug holder still had it's tag on it from Home Goods for $5.99 but I got the mug holder for $1. Yippee!  Linda purchased some lovely pots from Home Goods as well for $2 each that also had their stickers on them! SO we are off to a good start! For every clunker you find, you find two good ones!  OH! and I got two adorable punched tin items for candles only .25 each! Can you say BARGAIN!!!!!
Well, time for me to get Caitlin ready for school! I hope you all have a wonderful day!