All-dees diving

I really HATE how wasteful our society is. 

I left about a bushel of bananas in the dumpster that were perfectly fine for banana bread  

Here is what I pulled out

Kids shirt - long sleeved pink

Dog elf feet ears

Partial package of girls socks

Two red-green washcloths 

A Mario brothers watch ban

Complete box of boys u does size 4

Package if TP sealed until I picked it woth my grabber :)

Box of granola bars. 

     (A few may be missing j haven’t fully opened it) 

A box of Lannxe cheese and peanut butter crackers 

     (all sealed)

A jar of peanuts (sealed)

A box of baggies (needed those!!)

Four grinding spices (you’ll see these later)

Single taco season package 

Under the taco is a package of died cranberries 

Bag of toast type charcuterie snacks

Four easy max type mac-n-cheese

Two sealed bottles extra virgin olive oil

1 flavor additive for water

Bag of lentils

Big of split pea 

Two round woven placemats

Three onions

Sealed jar of apple cider vinegar 

     (has floaters - need to see if that’s a big no no)

Can of corn

Details on the grinders. The middle one is duplicated to make four total. I tried the pepper one tonight. It’s pretty good. 

And chocolate. 

Every single thing in this hail was unexpired and sealed. 

Sad day! Moms returned to Utah

Mom is back home in Utah. 

I took her to her plane seat - found out after I was not supposed to. Oh well I blame the dingaling at the counter. I asked if I could wheel her down she said yes. She checked her boarding pass and never asked for mine (because I didn’t have one!) so I walked her all the way to her seat as she couldn’t quite get her sea legs after sitting and being beat up by her walker. It rode in her lap and I actually honked her once while getting situated to move out of traffic at the scanner. What a mad house that airport was with missed flights for some for days with southwest and just lots of flyers. It was crazy!!  Going OUT was much nicer. I tried to get to where I could take a picture of her plane. Nope. Too crowded and too many folks not happy. Oh well. I just blew mom a kiss and exited quickly!!

What we saw on the way to the airport

Yes that’s a swimming pool driving the Freeway!

We did stay in a hotel out by the airport so that was nice. No super rush in the morning BUT they weren’t serving breakfast yet and didn’t have grab and go meals. They offered mom a danish out of the fridge and I’m glad we got it as there was NO time to stop on the way into her flight. We had maybe 10 minute wait once we got to the gate before they were boarding. It took an hour and fifteen minutes to get up to the gate to check in. THEN a I found out the wheel chair request was across the way and it was an hour wait. Well that was too close so I had my escort pass and drove her in. That was nice. Then it was super crowded at the first shuttle entry so I walked us to the T gates to catch it. Much nicer. Got right in. Got yo D gates and of course it was D1!  All the way at the end. I didn’t even see any sandwich grab and go places open in the way!  Sad!!

BUT even though I was sort of in trouble and we cut it to within 10 minutes (even getting there 2 hours early!) it was a fairly painless effort. Now not sure mom would say that as the walker was a pain in the rump!  Maybe we should just borrow or buy her a little zip walked for when she’s down again?  Yeah!!

The hotel and shuttle was the way to go for sure!!

In the way home I went down Highway 41 and stopped at all the goodwills I could find. I even tried a Salvation Army store but they were closed!  Bummer. I stopped at three (if you count the closed one) before I found some goodies. Some LE Smith Amber Atterbury scroll canisters. Believe it or not this wasn’t until MACON. Yep. All those stops nada. Then Macon I found five. So I nabbed them all. I should double my money on those or more. 

Then I got the South Macon store and found the Hull vase on the left side. I had picked up a similar Hull case for $.50 at an estate sale and found that even damaged they can bring in $10. So for $2.06 after taxes why not. 

Then the Warner Robins store. JACKPOT   The moon and star covered candy dish on the right. It will more than triple its value I’m sure. I bought a purple compote (mush more desired color) for $3.95 and sold it for $70. So I’m hoping my $9 investment pays off by at least triple. 

I also took a chance on the resin geisha and man figurines as they seem to be worth something. That was not quite my area but we shall try them. They looked good on what is selling on eBay. 

The last thing is the the glasses and vase in the front they are vintage Murano. The glasses are undamaged so I really bought the set for them. They retail for upwards of $45 for a set so here’s hoping the chips on the vase don’t turn  folks off. We shall see. 

And last bit not least the cute glass urchin for me. $.99

So I dealt with my sadness by shopping. 

Moms probably super happy to be out if our dysfunctional house!  Hope we didn’t chase HER off!!

Now to plan my trip out to see her in March/April!

Christmas

Angie came over to spend Christmas Eve with us and have dinner. She brought her cat Lela. Such a soft pretty cat but still skittish around a new environment. 

She and mom LOVED the fire ;)

Christmas Eve Angela and mom and I went out to see Christmas lights. There was a video you can see on face book of the best display. 



This was #2 and 3

Christmas morning was really Christmas afternoon. 

Butch got His boat!  Hahaha

Angela had a good reaction to safety goggles that went with her new drill. 

Alex and Liz 

Mommy

Lela of course joined in on the wrapping paper fun!

The aftermath!

What isn’t pictured is our great dinner of brisket. Butch started it at midnight the night prior and we ate at 3 or 4. 

Brisket, potato salad, deviled eggs, Mac and cheese, sautéed asparagus. Non traditional but oh so good!

We wrapped up the night with games. We all played push the dummy then Alex, mom, Liz and Angela and I played boggle. Them Liz, Alex, Angela and I played her new game of Hocus Pocus Yahtzee. I haven’t played Yahtzee in forever.!  Fun night. 

A little drama over a missing cat when dad took the garbage to the garage and left the door open behind him and we opened the garage, but she was lounging somewhere hidden and came out in time to head off major panic. Thank goodness!!