Four Estate Sales and an Auction and a Lottery Ticket

 Week-ends I have my escape from the  Reality of  caring for an invalid and leave my cares behind knowing he is in good hands with my step son and I can be care free for about 5 - 6 hours. I have a full plate today of heading to the laundry (because I am waiting on my check from the sale of the Mobile Home to purchase a new washer) with another 20$ worth of smelly blankets and pants (damn you dementia!!!)  which is about four loads. Headed to Grainger to pick up boxes I ordered last week and forgot to pick up! Post office to drop off packages. Goodwill to donate a bunch of unsellable stuff. I should do some Xmas shopping but hell, I have two more weeks!

The homes I visited for the Estate Sales were pretty much stripped bare of the obvious "good" stuff but I still found some goodies. A box of french cocktail plates. A suede coat with sherpa lining, two antique profile metal hanging plaques. As usual I pick up cleaning supplies because where else can you get them for a fraction of their cost? I found two salad spoons wood from Africa I think. He did not charge me for them and I have to say I was conflicted when I realized it. He has overcharged me in the past, but it is still  not in my character to allow an oversite, even a 7.50$ oversite, to go unresolved. I will  give him his 7.50$ next week. 

One home was way out in Prospect. That area is always on the estate Sale Trail. Why? Because that is where a lot of the rich people live. The homes are spectacular, large, beautiful and full of goodies. This home in particular was way out - in deer territory - surrounded by woods and the typical windy roads and narrow hairpin turns that are a Kentucky speciality. Up a paved narrow driveway into a side muddy field to park. This home, I could not take a picture due to the unusual architectural layout of a one story, was a home that did not end. It had a downstairs, with bookshelves and the master bedroom that was two walls of glass overlooking the forests that surrounded and hugged the house. 

Upstairs, the same. Room after room with bookshelves. Bedroom after bedroom with spectacular views of the surrounding area. Two huge Great Rooms, the back one a wall of picture wall to ceiling windows. The one in the front of the house with a dining table the size of  a corporate conference table - another low row of bookcases. The kitchen!!! Definitely not the house of a gourmet cook! Two people could not turn around in that  excuse of a kitchen. I would guess all formal dinners were catered. Oh to have money like that!!! Off the kitchen was the laundry room and for good sake, at the end of that small room was yet an entrance to another room floor to ceiling bookcases! I would use this as the reading room.

So I bought a lottery. Since it is basically one floor, I would love it. I loved the one in Anchorage, but it was old and would need a full time handyman. If I hit the lottery I would just buy both - ha ha ha.

The auction is tomorrow and I will go preview the stuff today. Already I have my eye on three Miriam Haskell necklaces and earrings they have. i can only hope no one else is interested. It has some action on the web site, but the real real is in the Auction House.

I didn't list much this week. Probably the least of any week. Had a multitude of distractions. A call from the insurance agency, J taking a fall and step son had to come all the way from V to help get him up as I was afraid to call EMS as they would want to take him to the hospital and I would give in. They would have to strap him down. And just plain semi depression about how much stuff I have to list and how horrible the house looks and how the house stinks of J's urine. I need the a washing machine. Maybe I should include a trip to the scratch and dent place on L&C?