A Scattered Little Date

Well, people, we have outdone ourselves. In the land of things that would only happen to the Shaffers, we had a real doozy last week. We have been saving it to share in this week's Spill the Beans, so...enjoy.

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Ryan had last Saturday off work, and the alarm went off wayyyyyyyyyyyy too early after our late night out at the drive-in. But we wanted to hit some garage sales first thing that day, because we were in search of a baby gate.

THIS IS NOT AN ANNOUNCEMENT. I repeat: this is not an announcement.

 Now that we are finishing off the garage {please see above podcast for that debacle}, we have the potential of leaving the door open to said garage if we're using it as extended living space for that moment, but we do not want Braeya to think for one moment that she is allowed out there, because that's just dangerous for when the garage is a garage. So we wanted to get a baby gate to keep her out.

About 8:10, we wandered up the driveway of the first sale we saw, hoping for a win, because the lady had about two dozen Pampers boxes stacked just inside the door. We asked if she was open yet, and she said not quite, but we were welcome to look around while she finished setting up. Ryan said, "Well, actually we're just looking for a baby gate. Do you happen to have one?"

She said, "Honey, you know what? I have two, and they're not for sale, but they're right up there on that shelf. You  just get them down and take them."

Even though I do not know this woman at all, I felt compelled to rush and explain that we needed it for a cat and not a baby, and ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh she loves cats. Has two. And if this is for a cat, then we were not even allowed to pay. Just take it for the kitty.

And that is how we went back home at 8:15, after visiting one sale, paying nothing, and hauling off TWO baby gates.

We picked up my friend Kari and went out to breakfast together, where we learned that IHOP really does hop on Saturday mornings!

And then we went to an outdoor market {like a craft vendor market} to check it out. I may or may not have made a couple of purchases!!

Ryan planned to spend the bulk of the day pressure washing the house and mowing the yard, so I hung out inside with his mom, working on my scrapbook!

But then...our evening date rolled around! We found out one of the subdivisions in town was having a free fireworks show, so of course we had to go!

We didn't actually know WHERE in the subdivision they were going to set them off, so we just sort of picked a spot.

Turns out we were pretty close!

LOL!!!!

It was a good little display, and I was glad we happened to be so close, because some of the really cool fireworks were lower to the ground and we still got to see them!

A fun and free date - to wrap up a day that started with fun and free gates!