Hello All –
Yes, we also have a spring butterfly--this was a week ago. We didn’t torment her at all this week…Yet! She was tied to the chair because she is still pretty bobble-headed and not even close to sitting up yet at just 7 weeks (in the pic).
I got down to my craft room today for a little while. Whoo hoo!! I wanted to work on scrapbooking some pictures of the baby. I completed or should say ALMOST completed 2 sets of pages. It’s going to take a long time at this pace! I’m not doing any journaling, will leave that to her parents.
Rhiannon had been wanting a used dresser to paint for Baby J’s room. She had her eye on my IKEA chair or something like it for nursing Baby J in the middle of the night. I know, a GOOD mom would have given the chair, right? Well, I’m NOT a good mom then! IKEA even mocked us by sending an email sale ad this past week. They shouldn’t do that to us if they aren’t going to build a store in our area. It’s just MEAN.
There is an auction place in our area that has a weekly consignment auction. It’s HUGE. Several buildings with one or two auctions going on within each building at the same time. Everything from lawn equipment, boats, cars, furniture, junk, antiques, literally EVERYTHING will be found at one time or another at this auction. On the spur of the moment Rhiannon and I decided to meet at the auction and see what they had this week.
I got there a little bit before she did and quickly perused the main building and got a number for us. I could NOT believe my eyes - right there in front of me I could see not only dressers that could work for what she needed, but an IKEA chair in an off-white which would work in her space.
After Rhiannon and Jaimee got there and we got all situated – we looked over other things that could be ours with the right bid.
Of course playing “I spy with my little eye” is only a teensy portion of the auction equation. You have to win the bid (and of course wait for them to actually auction your items … they tend to auction everything else off before the things YOU want to bid on). Finally they got close. Rhiannon and I were standing near (but not BY) the things she was interested in. Standing BY something signals others that there is something of value where you are and then THEY get interested and bid against you.
So there we are looking at “our items” with only our peripheral vision. NO ONE looks interested, we feel confident that we are ‘home free’ and going to get magnificent bargains!
AND THEN I SPY THE MOST WONDERFUL ITEM AT THE ENTIRE AUCTION … it’s a brass fish. Huge! Probably 18-24 inches long at least. And probably 10-12 inches tall. Flowing flippy-fish things from out the sides, mouth gaping open as only a fish mouth can do. Ahh!! Happy music starts playing in my head, the world stands still for a moment in time and then …. I tell Rhiannon “I HAVE TO HAVE THAT FISH!!! for Mark!!!”
My brother Mark has recently begun to collect brass pieces. And this fish, while it would make his wife Bellie say “Mark? WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH THAT HUGE BRASS FISH??” (And he would reply, “I don’t know, but we HAVE to keep it because Vonda gave it to me ….”) Anyway, it would almost certainly be the crème-de-le-crème of Mark’s new brass collection.
The ‘peripheral vision looking’ now includes the “guppy”, as we later learned he was called. NO ONE is looking interested in the chair, the dressers OR the fish. What a happy day.
Finally, the auctioneer holds up the fish. It is outstanding in its sheer brassness … I have my number in hand and can hardly conceal my enthusiasm. I just KNOW for $2 or ($5 maximum) that I am going home with the trophy (no pun intended). My hand nervously twitches as the auctioneer says “Who’ll give $10 for this brass guppy?” NO ONE BIDS. I’m ecstatic! The bid goes lower (my heart skips a beat …) and my hand is ready to spring up to claim my prize when all of a sudden the world goes crazy. Someone bids $5 (my max bid … oh no!!) – then $10 and then $12.50 and then … and then … all the way up to $100.
My heart was broken. The dream had ended. Someone was walking away with Mark’s guppy. I contemplated offering them $5 … just in case they didn’t really mean to buy it.
The good auction news was that Rhiannon got her IKEA chair and not one, but TWO of the TWO dressers she was looking at – for UNDER $20 total. Getting an IKEA chair, two dressers, a stroller, a baby and the crate for the dogs in the vehicles was a challenge. But we did it! She said the cover of the chair came off and washed up nicely. I wish I lived closer so I could help with the dressers, but … I can’t even get my own projects done, so it’s probably just as well I don’t live closer.
I went to a training course Friday on grammar and proof-reading, which is kinda funny when I read back over this!! I think if the seminar presenter were to have read this before I walked away, she would have kept me after school and we’d probably still be there for a private tutoring session.
Yesterday after church we enjoyed having Wynter, Mitch and Colton join us for lunch. Mitch and Colton didn’t stay a long time – Wynter and Rhiannon spent a lot of time visiting with each other. I got to spend a lot of time holding the baby (who had tons of smiles for Gram(me)). Then at 5 pm it was time for our small group to arrive. This week we had to rename it the VERY SMALL small group as there was only Randy, myself and one other.
Okay if you are in our area – PLEASE come this next weekend to the Creation vs. Evolution Seminars our church is sponsoring. I promise no one is going to tackle you and baptize you (we’re far more sneaky than that! *wink*). Seriously though in this world we live in, where we can see things in the Bible coming true, it is GOOD for us to learn to defend the Biblical things we believe, INCLUDING knowing about creation and evolution and the difference therein.
CREATION vs EVOLUTION
Dr. John Kurlinski
April 24 – 7 p.m.:
"2009 - The Year of Darwin" -- The
History of Charles Darwin and the
Evolution of His Theory
April 25 - 9:30 a.m.
"The Origin of the 24/7 Cycle"
April 25 - 11 a.m.
"The Strange Habits of an Infinite
God"
April 25 – 2 p.m.
"Dating, Dinosaurs & The Geologic
Column" or "The Flood" (audience
choice)
Questions and Answers
Hope you had a great week and that you WILL have a great week. Take care and much love to all.
Vonda
