It is August already! Well close enough. The weather is hot in Southern Missouri but no surprise there. My antique booth is closing this weekend. I am rather relived. I don't want to pay every month for an antique booth anymore. but I have been thinking of signing up and being a vender at an antique fair. One or two days and over for the year. I wonder if that works for anyone else?

grandIan

GrandAbbey from last year

GrandAudrey

GrandGraham

GrandClaire

Grands

California does have some beautiful sites.

I purchased a trampoline over the weekend. I always read they were so hard to put up, but it seemed very easy. It took my husband and son around two hours from box to jumping. My son got in and immediatly started doing flips and landed with his neck in a bad position. He has a sore neck but that is all. I thought "Great, I buy a trampoline and kill my son" . In other news my husband called this morning and wanted to know what my firefighter son's phone number was, he needed to get in touch with him. Didn't say why, but I could hear the emergency in his voice. As it turns out a firefighter\paramedic in the next neighborhood over was shot and killed while responding to a fire. Some bastard shot him after lighting his own vehicle and house on fire. I guess he was some lunatic, but it makes me so angry. Bless the firefighter he was only twenty-two years old with one year on the job.

Another weekend, finally. My antique store is closing at the end of the month and I have a few weeks to remove all my stuff from my booth. What am I going to do with all of it? Just goes to show you better just buy things you love cause you may end up with all of it. I have to work on some projects and find room in my house, it will be hard.