Day 884 Almost.

10th January 2020

We lifted the dresser/wardrobe combo into the living space to photograph. Kelli posted the pictures on Marketplace, and within minutes her phone exploded with requests, it was amazing.

I had to do some repair work to a leg on the heavy oak dresser that Kelli had acquired a couple of days ago. One leg was loose, and the mounting piece had split.

We carried it into house so that Kelli could finish the top.

The piece was as heavy as guilt, even taking the drawers out required a hoist.

There was a matching side table, made to the same weighty standard, just about managed by a single person, as long as that person is Hercules.

At different times of the day buyers would arrive to collect some of the small things Kelli was selling. I’m amazed that people will travel miles for a piece for five dollars, then get back into their V8 and trundle back home.

We finally had a bite on the POS unit that I lovingly brought back to life.

The buyer was in Byron Center, which alway sounds to me like a health club, but it is a place. We were all excited, and loaded it into the truck, but first we had to hit the Goodwill stores, just in case something interesting turned up. Out of luck there, we were just about to start the thirty minute drive when Kelli received a message to say the lady had changed her mind. Bloody typical, it was fortunate that we were not further into our journey, but I cursed her loudly, and then went to New Holland for dinner.

It was Friday night, and of course there were no parking spaces. When I first came to Holland there were alway parking spaces, there were not so many cars back then. If you needed a place to park, you just kicked the horse, it would run off, then you could take its place. Those were the good ol’ days.

There is always a cross section of people there, I noticed a couple that were doing a stress test to the furniture. They were on the large size, with enough skin between them to re-cover a Zeppelin. Well the chairs stood up to the loading, and as they walked past, they cut out the light making it difficult to read the menu.