Life Is what happens when you're busy making other plans - John LennonI had the summer planned out. I was going to take every Monday off to have two days off with my wife, who works Saturdays, and we were going to attend auctions. I would do the Saturday auctions, and she and I would do the Sunday auctions with Monday to rest, recover and review our finds. Then I would photograph them and put them up on the Granny Wicker's site.
The first day I planned off was July 3rd, - a Tuesday, because the Monday was the Holiday for Canada Day which actually fell on the Sunday this year. A four day weekend with my wife!!!
Auctions - travel - fun! What could be better.
Reel back to Friday July 29th, 5:00 pm. All day members of the staff have been called into the bosses office one by one, over the afternoon, and then they have left the building for "an extended long weekend". I am somewhat jealous. Are they getting plum assignments while I work away at the same old same old? Mark -obliviously working- continues working. At 5:00 after a full day and looking forward to the weekend I too get called into the office. My plum assignment?
Laid off. Life had just happened.
So instead of leisurely attending auctions as a buyer, I was transformed into a resume machine looking under every rock for a possible job.
And I was extremely lucky. I started my new job August first.
But now, I have spent all of my auction money, my emergency money, and my penny jar money just trying to make it one more day, or until I start a new job.
So no auctions, no new stuff for the store. My very patient wife suggests that I look around the house to see what I might have that I can put up on the site. I reply that there is nothing. I have it all up there on the site.
Well I did look around. Surprising what you can find when you are looking.
An Oak machinists case, three dovetail wooden boxes from a hardware store, a Satsuma camel tea pot, a crystal lamp, salt and pepper shakers in milk glass and depression glass, 3 copper and brass fire extinguishers, linens and clothes, a bit of this, and one of those, and on and on.
So it is probably good that I did not buy more. It will give me a chance to process everything I do have but have not had time to look at.
Should be a good fall at Grannys!!
