IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY MORNING.... At least it
was WHEN We
started out on Our
way to the
CAIRINE WILSON SECONDARY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS CRAFT SALE.
As predicted, I never
did get ANY sleep
Last Night. Although, it was a
bit more
restful than the previous
Pre-Craft-Show evening.
In fact, there was a
"moment" around
4a.m. when I
almost, slipped into
Slumber...
WHEN SUDDENLY...
aarrrggghhhhhhhh! The ^%$%^#$^
LOW BATTERY BEEP on My
Bedroom SMOKE DETECTOR started! -
Really? - Like IT
couldn't just
*wait* a
FEW hours?! Well, at
least it's not going off
too often...
Anyway... I got up at
5:30. Fetched the
Saturday Newspaper from
outside the
Front Door.
Still DARK out,
not as COLD as I had expected, a
bit BREEZY... Perhaps,
The Weather will hold up...?
Just after
7a.m., I open the
Door once more to head to the
Garage to get the
CAR out -
MOTHER is still a
few minutes
shy of
"ready"....
Sooo...
THIS is looking
*SPECIAL*..! Uhhh...
WHAT'S with the
GALE-like WIND?! Oh, hey.
Spitting RAIN, too! THIS
couldn't have WAITED
another Half Hour..?! I'm
already a few Minutes behind
"Schedule", as
MOTHER searches for a
warmer Coat.
You could
SEE the
SQUALL LINE move across the
GATINEAU and over the
OTTAWA RIVER...
LUCKILY, it wasn't
such a wide swath, and
despite the
20plus m.p.h. GUSTS, and heavily spitting DROPS - that could have
easily turned to
FREEZING RAIN - I
*managed* to cross
UNDER it, at the
right spots and made it
Safely to Our Destination!
Double LUCK! It
settled down
JUST as I pulled
up to the Curb!
WooHoo!
We
managed to SET UP
on TIME for the
9a.m. OPENING! And, as One
ENTERS the
Larger of the Two
ROOMS [
a double GYMNASIUM],
THIS is
MY STUFF!!
So. Let's take a TOUR of TABLES 1 & 2, shall We?
As We
ROUND the
POLE RACK of
MOA-BOAS, We
spot, the
"top" of the
ever-mysterious
AUNTIE SHAN's Head!
NEXT... a Close-Up
"Visit" to
WASHCLOTH WORLD! -- It may not
seem like it,
but there's about
250 odd WASHCLOTHS there.
NEXT, a Visit with
MOTHER's HAT "HERDERS"...
And
HERE'S Her
Latest Bunch of
BUTTON BUDS! --
Most of THESE were
Sold!
Rounding off Our
TABLE TERRITORY -
MADAME Q's vast array of
CUDDLY CREATURES and
other Retail Riches!
AS for the Rest of the Day...
- Rumour had it, that The Weather cleared up nicely.
- Although, the Customer Traffic was steady, I think the NUMBERS are likely down 30%.
- One of the "Kind" People who RE-TWEETED My Notice of THE SALE, dropped in to say Hi!
- My MOA-BOA Customer from the Last CRAFT SALE came by as well - Proudly WEARING her Purchase!
- SOLD a BLANKET!! -- "RIPTIDE" -- More on that, Tomorrow.
- Happy Dance!!
- Today's MOABOA Sale - made of the XMAS Colour - was acquired as a GIFT for a NUN!
- Made a "nice" Profit. Enough to cover the NEXT Round of YARN Purchasing! -- FINALLY!!
Meanwhile... I'm
trying to stay
awake long enough to
FINISH This.... The
exhaustion is catching up to Me! I'll be
vegging ALL day
Tomorrow!
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