Out and about....

Today I finally got out. I wanted to get back to the Goodwill store. I saw those blue plates there last time I was there and fell in love with them. But I was hunting for other stuff and left them there. Today they were calling my name so I had to go back for them. There's only 11 but I think they would look nice as salad or dessert plates with my china. They are very delicate too. A lady in the store saw them in my cart and asked me if they were depression glass. I thought that too when I first saw them but I don't think they are. But they are made that nice. They were $1.99 a piece, which probably isn't much of a deal but I loved them. I also found a glass for my bathroom to match it and a NY cookbook. I seem to do better at this Goodwill than I do elsewhere.

I went to the Consignment shop to see if  I could place some furniture there and maybe even buy some. They are closed, gone. Bummer. I'm needing some bookcases and thought perhaps I could get a deal there. So I went off to wander. I went to an antique shop  that I had been at when we were here on vacation. Yuck. Really grungy old stuff and nothing that interested me. The prices were too high too.

Then I stopped at another right down the street from me. Its an antique mall but looks small. OMG I was wandering in there for ages. Its an antique shop in the front of the building. But there's a different one in the back and you can walk from one to the other. I saw a few things I liked but really didn't need so I didn't buy them. And frankly, I'm stunned at prices up here. I really thought this area would be cheap. Some of the things Ive bought down in CA. were actually cheaper there. I may have to go out to the boonies to garage sales and such, forget the shops.

But I was out, I was driving in the rain! Really didn't bother me much till it really started to come down hard. You would think people here tho would use umbrellas since it rains alot. I see them in the stores and they do look like some are gone so someone is buying them. But I have not seen one open umbrella since Ive been here. Nobody uses them, they just get wet lol.

So I wandered on home since it was coming down hard now. I was getting tired too, coffee time for sure. I got in and did a pile of dishes that I would have done earlier if I didnt get company early this morning. I wanted to get out early cuz it gets dark early and that didn't happen. So I figured I'd clean up when I got home. Good idea too cuz now all my pretty blue dishes are in there being washed and will be all clean to use. So here I sit typing, sucking down coffee and having orange/chocolate marble cake. I have to make dinner tho.........sigh. I don't want to cook.