I spent part of the day unpacking items we are storing after clearing out mom's apartment. Getting ready for the garage sale next Saturday. Here is a clown cookie jar that a friend of mom's gave her in 1949. I know because she wrote that information on the bottom. I did some searching on the internet, and found that this cookie jar is worth $150-$200. Needless to say, I will not sell it at the garage sale. However, if any of you know someone who collects old cookie jars, let me know!
In response to an earlier post, Heather put first dibs on our chimenea (sp?). Here's a picture Heather.
Corby is in seventh heaven tonight! He's been a Cubs fan forever. They won today, and the Milwaukee Brewers lost, so that puts the Cubs 3 1/2 games ahead of the Brewers in the race for the division title. GO CUBS! And then those Kansas City Chiefs decided they'd win a game today too! It was a good day for sports in our house!
Kaitlin is interested in a Dodge Ram truck that a neighbor is selling. We kind of have an inside "scoop" on the truck because he told us what the dealer offered him as a trade-in, what he wanted for it, and I think we can offer him somewhere in between and possibly get it. However, it's a gas guzzler, so I'm making Kaitlin think long and hard about it. At least school and work are both less than 2 miles away, but still.........
Last, but not least today, here's a picture of our dog, Cinnamon, overlooking HER neighborhood. She loves to stand on the picnic table on the deck, and look out over all the other yards around us. Especially since there are dogs in just about every back yard. Our neighbors next door have a red lab named Sadie. Just recently they got two black and white ShihTzu puppies - named Missy and Oreo. They are adorable! We'd love to get Cinnamon a playmate. We've been out to the Humane Society a few times, as well as watching their website, but so far haven't found one we think would be compatible. Besides, we have enough animals right now anyway!
And the quote for Sunday, 9/23/07 is: "There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else."
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by the way, I have a Longaberger basket from mom's that I'm keeping for you. It was your mom's. I need to look at the date on the bottom again, but I think it was an early 80's basket.
don't know if my dad told you or not, but i won't be home at christmas this year.
instead i will be there over Veteren's Day. So let's plan on getting together!