stranded at mile 50 of the 100 mile yard sale
Hi, all! Contrary to popular belief, I did not fall off the face of the earth. It's just been a very busy weekend.Friday, my mom & made our annual pilgrammage to the Hundred Mile Yard Sale that's held in this area every summer. I was really looking forward to it, & it was the one thing I was willing to spend a day doing other than writing or getting ready for RWA, which is really saying something. *g*
And we had fun. The morning was great because it was still fairly cool & we found some neat stuff. But then, about 50 miles into the 100 Mile Yard Sale, disaster struck. For one thing, it was starting to get HOT, but then we stopped at this one house, & when we went to leave, the car wouldn't start. Not just "not start," but nothing happened when we turned the key. The car was well & truly dead.
The man who lived at the house where we were stuck tried to give us a jump start because we suspected the battery was dead, but his jumper cables wouldn't connect to the battery. (Who knew they had two different kinds...one that attaches at the top & one that attaches at the side.) So we called Triple A.
Thank God for AAA. LOL We had to wait longer than if we'd been able to get a jump start from the other guy, but that's okay. We both had books with us--of course!--& sat in the shade under a tree reading & eating apples until the tow truck came. And I guess the battery was really dead because it took about six tries...I kid you not...to get the car to start & stay running. And I guess the yard sale was a real killer for cars in general, because the tow truck driver said they'd had twenty-eight calls already that day (it was only a little after noon), starting before 6am. Yikes! And he still had something like eleven calls to go. So he got us going, but didn't tow or follow us.
Since the car was not to be trusted, we came straight home. But we'd only gotten about halfway through the yard sale route, so we got a different car & headed back out. :-D Unfortunately, it was really hot by then & we never quite recaptured the fun we'd been having earlier. We never really found anything else fabulous, either.
That is, until we reached Benezette, where we had a delicious dinner--our first real food of the day--& ran into some friends we hadn't seen in a while. They were with a couple of family members, one of whom loves romance. So we chatted for quite a while about books. & I ended up giving her a copy of BOUGHT BY A MILLIONAIRE that I had in the car. I hope she likes it!
By the time we got home, it was late & we were exhausted. I took a shower & fell straight into bed.
I spent the rest of the weekend going through my closet & drawers looking for clothes to wear to the RWA conference. It wasn't pretty, let me tell you. My constant battle is coordination. I have a million pairs of pants & a million tops, but I can never find items that actually go together. Grr. I did find a nice dress for the Harlequin party, though, & enough outfits for the rest of the week--I think. I hope.
Next I need to start packing, which I'm also not looking forward to. Blah! But for now, I'm going to get back to the writing & see if I can catch up a little from the time I lost over the weekend. And Darlene will be here soon to chat about A Time to Forgive. :-D
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