It was a dark and stormy day. The last of the high schoolers were packing up and ready to head home. No one was prepared for what happened next. Phoebe* hopped into her car. Suddenly she had a thoughtful thought: she could back out to the shop and pick up Kendra, so she wouldnt have to walk through the rain! She jammed the spotless late-model Fusion into reverse. “Ha, I am so powerful!” she thought smugly to herself as she floored the gas. Smash! Clankpowyeeeech! Two mailboxes, a large metal shelf, and a water hydrant fell victim to her attack. In fact, the rear end of the car was on top of the metal table. The girl did not yet know any of this. It seemed like the car was going uphill! “But wait, I dont remember a hill here,” thought the bewildered girl. The bystanders were horrified. Phoebe quickly shoved the Fusion into Drive, and spun around for awhile. Finally, the car lurched forward. The girl, who was looking quite pale by now, careened very dazedly in circles, until she finally calmed down and screeched to a halt. She flung open the door and rushed over to the scene of the accident. Desperately, she attempted to set the large metal table on its legs. She stared in dismay at her mess…. There were, of course, several eyewitnesses. “I was terrified,” gasped one. “Mailboxes were flying through the air! My first thought was, ‘Am I going to be next?’” Luckily he escaped without sustaining any injuries.

the scene according to a witness.

*To protect the identity of the driver, a fake name was used.

P.S. Due to unusual amounts of murmurings and protests, i must admit that some of the details may be a tiny bit exaggerated. Therefore you should not believe anything you read in this post. Except the true stuff. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

For this one, i stacked some food dehydrator trays on top of each other, then stuck a little heart magnet on the bottom… ta-da!

Lol… this one’s self-explanatory

Had to wait on a train after the play, so i decided to take some pics….

Jessica went to a tea party, so she wore this hat.

There were some pretty cool clouds floating lazily around.

That was actually 4 pics that i merged into one, then lightened and darkened parts of it.

Sara and I went on a walk at about “sunset-time”, and we were trying to take a pic, which is kinda hard if there’s nothing to set the camera on.

On a different subject, i did something a little ‘different’ today. Sara and Emily went to Inman to some kind of material store, so i decided to go along! So i did. But i decided it’s too expensive for my price range. Wow, is material ever expensive! like, 7 bux a yard or something…

6:00 – Everyone who is going along is rudely awakened. Nathan, however, doesnt get up until the rest of us are almost leaving, so we start late.We had agreed to meet Lesters at Center at 6:30.

6:30 -Frantic call from Emily to ask where we were. we got there about 4 minutes late.

7:00 – stopped at QwikShop and all the kids got cappaccino. I think maybe the water wasnt connected, because mine was just a thick, syruppy mess. Ida contributed a small container of donut holes, they were eaten very soon.

9:00 – still happily garage saling… one mom mentioned we could go home soon now. A good laugh all around. haha!

10:00 – Moms now started buying every big thing they saw. Rachel bought a “little” toy kitchen that she thought her grandkids might want. it was actually nowhere close to ‘little’. Next, my mom bought a big three-table set. Here’s two quotes from the lady we bought it from. :Oh, i’m sure you can fit them all into your van… it’s big.” and then a little bit later when she went out to help put it in: “You didnt tell me your van was full already!”

10:05 ‘Parental Control’ was decided to be inforced. basically, if the moms wanted to buy anything bigger than a shoe box, at least two kids had to approve it. This rule was, of course, completely ignored.

10:30 – went to eat at Freddy’s. Oh yeah!

11:00 – The moms seemed to have gotten about all they needed, but then sara bought a plastic-tree-in-a-pot or something like that. it was at least 7 feet high. then ida bought a shoe-holder thing, also very large. If you’re wondering what a “shoe-holder thing” is, there’s one in the playroom at McDonald’s to put your shoes in when u go sliding.

11:30 – Finally started on the long trip home. there was only half as much space in the van as there had been on the way that morning. I think we all felt very close on the way home. haha (that was a sort of pun)

All in all, i think everyone had fun and collected lots of junk stuff to stash away in boxes. I got some stuff, but nothing i wont use, of course lol. I am sorry to report that the camera didnt work some of the time while we were garage saling, so there arent any good pics of all the stuff in the van. i took some with a cell phone tho, so u can sort of see. anyways, here’s some pics. u can click on them for a detailed (or not) explantion of the pic.

feel free to comment. also, if u read this, i expect u to update soon…