Sunday, June 22, 2008

a good weekend



this was such a nice day....we were busy and had lots of people and groups....lots of catching up , lots of juicy tidbits about ongoing dramas....

. we have been here for a long time and really know lots of our customers..we are a business , but the customers are more than customers...we get to share a little of their time and lives...some of these folks have bought and/or sold to us for 20 yrs!!! or more...;i know some of them better than some of my family...is that bad?

today it was just steve wade and me....and we were swamped...

we enjoyed

*the sisters who told me about serving lunch on the georgous haviland they bought yesterday...

.* the grandaughter of a big antique/junk dealer.... she loves lots of stuff too...she was telling me how it was hard to leave home and be in bare surroundings...her grandpa is a huge auction buyer and hauls it down to tennessee.... he and i usually fight over the junk boxes at auctions....

*and the retired shop teacher who taught one of our carpenters in adult ed..boy do we owe him a lot!!! .he fell out of a tree with a chain saw last year...... his big city daughter always comes here on her trips thru town...

*several people in their late 70s or 80s enjoying our lake manitou postcards...and remembering our lake from back in its glory days...and nice talk about my parents who lots of the old people knew...

then there were several groups who stayed a long time.or bumped into other groups,,,., the nice patient husbands... and old customers who had moved back..and needed a lot of furniture....neat new people who came in and were suprised.....

it was great...

then we had another storm...

saturday was scary....we are in indiana...and the weather has been dangerous....

yesterdays storm left the store in the dark for an hour....steve and wade dug out the flashlights...people were stranded in the aisles..one lady yelled help, im in the half price room and im afraid to move.........wade sold 200$ in the dark!!!

i was at an auction in a pole barn with about 200 people ..by myself......it went dark and soo loud...i was scared to death , just covered my ears and closed my eyes.... i got a fabulous load of stuff!! including a marble statue and a big marble pedestal....i may have grossly overpaid...not sure yet...

jon was down at julies store http://www.bellachicinteriors.com/ having a trunk show..they loved our furniture..... and it was neat for jon , meeting julies customers.... he had fun ...

all in all a great weekend...making me so glad im in the junk business!!!!

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