Bad storms heading east of the metroplex. I don't know if we'll have to run up and check on our cabin this week , it would be a nice trip just to go and get out of Dallas.
When we first built the cabin,my sister and I would plan a family weekend,and head there Friday afternoon. We knew that if we planned one some (six or more) would show up,and bring a friend or two with them.
We'd always have sandwiches and chips set out for anyone coming in later, take a nice bath and put on a movie, then we'd go to bed, and the others would straggle in; go check out the lake, put the boats and paddle boats in; then sit around a fire, tell stories and pick on each other till about two, then they'd sleep late and have cold gravy and biscuits or sandwiches till we got back and started dinner.
Saturday mornings, my sister and I would get up and go to the different towns for antique shops and flea markets ( my dh was our designated driver; he doesn't mind, says just tell me where you want to go; he has drug us through every Walmart and pawn shop in northeast Texas down to Kilgore and we went to the goodwill in Sulfur Springs one morning and they had a section in the back that had things that didn't sell (but you could find tops or bottoms of old pots and pans, dishes, and really old books), so we went back there first.
I walked past this thing that at first I thought was an old wooden lawn chair, then came back and unfolded it, it had an old faded outline of a body and holes within the outlines. It took me a few moment to get over the willies, and grab my dh and sister to show them that someone had thrown away an old traveling undertaker table, so we went and told the manager that it might be worth a lot more money than the two bucks they were asking. She later told us that she called one of the funeral homes in town (I think it was the oldest one) and told them about it and they put it on display in their window.
I told dh that he couldn't go in one shop in Mt. Vernon with me anymore; I found him dismantling this huge coffee grinder, that was probably a hundred years old, and asked what the hell are you doing?, and he was just want to see how it worked.
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