Moving sale update...

Well, we did say that the sale would go on regardless of the weather - and it did.

Up at 5.00am, we shuffle to the kitchen, slurp down a couple of espressos just to attempt to get things going and then it started; our long day. For those of you that work daily in a retail environment, we both know a little of what you might normally experience. Our sympathies.

The forecast was not great but we decided to persevere and proceed regardless. Large items that could withstand the rain were placed on the driveway and practically everything else was set up in the garage like a mini-mart.

Too tired to go out on the Friday evening, I went out at 6.00am Saturday morning to put signs up. Do you have any idea just how many people are out at that time in the morning on a weekend? TLATO had gone out with her friend, Nancy, a day or so earlier and had made the rounds of bulletin boards, etc. in local supermarkets and donut stores putting up flyers with pertinent info. Note, as we have done before, we should have gone through the 'hood and put flyers into everyone's mailbox. At this point it was not quite raining.

People started showing up before 7.00am - we were ready. The rain had started falling by now. Sales were brisk all morning; in fact, the heavier the rain (and it was quite heavy at times), the more people showed up. Sheryl even escorted some folks from their cars into our mall of unwanted treasures with her umbrella!

By lunchtime, the rain had eased and so too had the crowds. Time for a chip truck run! Aside - is there anything to my fear that Canada will be known as a place where chip trucks and donut stores abound? Pretty bad…

After lunch, the sun attempted to come out and the temperature started to climb - as did the humidity after the rain.

It seemed that those folks that were put off by the morning's rain, delighted in the higher temperatures and soon there was much activity in front of the house.

Around 3.00pm we decided to wind things down, deciding that we would be holding another event in the coming weeks. All in all, considering everything, it was a successful day. A call was placed later that evening to Shafiq's Cuisine of India (brilliant Indian food) and I drove into town to pick it up. No deliveries where we live, being in the country and all.

Dinner was a quiet, subdued affair. The food was, as usual marvellous, and a couple of Rickards White Beers were consumed. Clean up followed then an evening on the couch, watching a movie. No idea what we watched; I'm not sure who fell asleep first.

And yes, we will do this again soon; we both discovered items that had somehow not made it outside. We'll let everyone know once we settle upon a date.

Thanks to all that braved the elements and came out; we had a great day and it was fun seeing so many familiar faces.