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[saffronhare]

Saturday's yard sale to benefit the local BSA Troop was a rousing success. We raised close to $3K! By the time all the Craigslist items are sold and receipts/expenses are balanced out, I think we might top that number. Woohoo!

There were husband heroics for most of the weekend, particularly as *dozens* of families brough items over to be sorted/arranged during the day on Friday, and then as we had to throw tarps over everything before the storms rolled in.

Saturday was clear and bright and I got an epic sunburn. People at work keep asking me, "OMG, what did you DO!?!?" So that's super-professional. :)

Not much left our house, but hardly anything came IN, so I'm counting it a victory. Lots of people were delighted with their acquisitions. I still don't *like* yard sales, but I'll definitely sign up to host it again -- nothing quite like a few days of intense effort for such a marvelous payoff...and just once each year!

I especially loved the part where "fresh" volunteers arrived at the end of the day to finish all the packing and re-loading of things to be donated away, while I got to get blitzed on margaritas. LOVE THAT SHIT RIGHT THERE.

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Eh, it'll heal. Just one of the dangers of living in a houseful of brown-eyed people: Nobody remembers to remind the freckled lady to put on sunscreen! I'm pretty sure diermuid had never even owned sunscreen until I moved in. He is taking with good grace the instruction to nuzzle me in non-sunburned areas with his scritchy beard until I heal up. :)

As a weird little side benefit, the color of my face makes my eyes look all silvery grey, which I think is pretty darn cool.