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Not a propitious start...
I got up early enough (5 am), but by the time I was finished with the translation, there really wasn't enough time to do a workmanlike job with the garage sale signs and get them stuck in the ground in time to catch any early garage-sale prowlers. So Galina and Alla set off for the Webster house with the signs, while I got ready for a blood draw.
When I went to double-check the time of my appointment, I learned that my appointment had been made at the downtown location for 9:30 am, which bummed me out a little. I called MD Anderson, and the person who answered told me I could come by the local office at any time for the draw, so I showed up at 8:30 am. The whole process went very smoothly (I'm to the point where I know the names of all the ladies who draw blood, and Gladys is my favorite, as her 'sticks' are well and truly painless).
By the time I got back to the house, the PODS had been picked up, so that was one additional item to strike off the to-do list.
I showered and went to the Webster house, where it turned out (it's around 9:20 am now) that the signs were still not in the ground (and since the signs were our only "advertising," that's saying something). So I drove around and got the signs put in all the right places, after which a thoroughly tired Galina went home.
There was hardly any action at the sale. By the time Alla and I decided to call it a day (around 1 pm), we had seen only a handful of people stop by. In a way, this makes sense, because Friday is a work day (I have never been able to figure out why folks in Texas typically hold their sales on Fridays and Saturdays instead of Saturday and Sunday—although I understand a certain reluctance to hold sales on the Sabbath). Our cash "take" for the day was pathetic. Hopefully, we'll do better tomorrow.
Cheers...
When I went to double-check the time of my appointment, I learned that my appointment had been made at the downtown location for 9:30 am, which bummed me out a little. I called MD Anderson, and the person who answered told me I could come by the local office at any time for the draw, so I showed up at 8:30 am. The whole process went very smoothly (I'm to the point where I know the names of all the ladies who draw blood, and Gladys is my favorite, as her 'sticks' are well and truly painless).
By the time I got back to the house, the PODS had been picked up, so that was one additional item to strike off the to-do list.
I showered and went to the Webster house, where it turned out (it's around 9:20 am now) that the signs were still not in the ground (and since the signs were our only "advertising," that's saying something). So I drove around and got the signs put in all the right places, after which a thoroughly tired Galina went home.
There was hardly any action at the sale. By the time Alla and I decided to call it a day (around 1 pm), we had seen only a handful of people stop by. In a way, this makes sense, because Friday is a work day (I have never been able to figure out why folks in Texas typically hold their sales on Fridays and Saturdays instead of Saturday and Sunday—although I understand a certain reluctance to hold sales on the Sabbath). Our cash "take" for the day was pathetic. Hopefully, we'll do better tomorrow.
Cheers...