Treasure Find Tuesday

Happening at this moment: Goose on the water, duck in my house.

I made an amazing discovery a few weeks ago. After dropping Chris off at the airport, I began to wander around town. Driving around exploring our area has become one of our favorite past times in Ohio. This particular day I was on the lookout for thrift shops. I am sad to say that Chris is not as fascinated about sifting through items as I am, which is why I was going it alone. While I was out, I hit the crazy jackpot - a Goodwill OUTLET. I know! You would assume Goodwill already has the lowest prices possible, but how much you pay at the outlet depends on how much everything weighs. All clothes are on racks and are less than $2 an item. The only shelves in the place house electronics and artwork EVERYTHING else is dumped in bins that you have to dig through. This place is literally a workout. Each bin is madness filled with glass, action figures, movies, crutches, games ... you name it, it's in a bin. What you do is fill up a shopping cart and roll it up onto a large scale at checkout. Items are priced by the pound. Trust me there are many treasure finds to come from these blue bins!

This is a wooden duck I threw into my cart on my first dive into the bins.

After a coat of light pink paint (Paint color = Romance) I have let the duck live inside.

I forgot to take a before picture of this wooden frame that I thrifted at the Base thrift shop, but it was the wood color that you can see in the upper left corner of this blurry photo. I painted it white after falling in love with Anna's white coffee table at Your Trash, My Treasure .

The frame is perfect for our mini hallway.

Six Geese A-Skating

Have you ever seen a Goose fall on its Caboose?

(Sing this to the tune of the children's song "down by the bay")

This is just a small clip of a hilarious day watching a gaggle of geese glide across the frozen pond in our "backyard".

...and if geese don't give you a giggle maybe this kid will

enjoy

Ready to Rumble

When we looked out the window, we noticed something was going down by the pond. Chris and I watched the saga unfold.

Geese on one side.

Ducks on the other.

As you can see in the first Photo, the geese were on the move. It wasn't long after the Geese landed that the ducks decided to flee.

Fortunately, we avoided a massacre - though there was a whole lot of quacking going on.

Welcome back to Ohio.

A Wife

I am currently sitting at our new kitchen table listening to the thunder rumble outside as i ponder what to do today. This phrase keeps repeating in my mind: So this is my new life - this is being a wife. haha.

We have been in our apartment for a week now and Chris started work yesterday. Today is my second day on my own. It is so odd to be without limitations - what the heck am I going to do!? We still need some furniture, but what with the giant flash of lightening that just lit the room and without Chris' opinion - i don't really see that happening today.

Perhaps

perhaps I will paint a wall

do some laundry down the hall

wash the dishes in the sink

make sure the apartment doesn't stink

Unpack the closet (It's a walk in !)

take a spin in the gym

watch the ducks and take things in

perhaps I will do it all

or perhaps I'll do nothing at all