March---Math

This month, the topic was "math." We're surrounded by numbers. I challenged the group to use a large number on their page. Great results.

"Run the Numbers" by Jeanne---she was the "early bird" this month.

Jeanne's journaling.

When my friends & I decided to rent a booth at the flea market in St. Peters we thought we would make some money on the stuff we would normally give to the Goodwill.  We had a couple of months to get everything together & priced.  I had a pile in the basement, a pile in the laundry room & a pile in the garage.  It took me 2-3 hours to get it all priced & boxed up.  I used Jim’s truck to load about 9 boxes & met Diana met at the venue the Friday afternoon before the flea market opened for the weekend.  It took us a couple of hours but we were glad we set our stuff up ahead of time because otherwise we would’ve had to be there at 7:00 Saturday morning to set up before it opened to the public at 9:00.

            When Saturday morning rolled around we met there (I brought bloody Marys) at around 8:00 & waited for Debbie & Donna to help them set up.  Donna was selling her homemade body butter so she only had 1 box.  Debbie got there late & had mostly shoes to sell.  After setting everything up we sat back & waited for the customers to buy up all our stuff.  And we waited!  And we waited!

            We met several other vendors and decided they had created their own little world.  We met Joe & Carol who had about 10 booths every weekend.  They sold furniture, knick knacks, computer parts & a variety of other items.  They were very nice to us & showed us the “ropes”.  We only got in trouble once when we were sitting in front of a closed booth that had all the items on the tables covered up.  A vendor a few booths down came & told us we couldn’t sit there because the owner was in the hospital & he was watching the guy’s stuff & he didn’t want anything to get broke.

            We took turns manning our booth so we each had plenty of time to go shopping.  We all bought something.  We enjoyed the food booths of freshly made Caribbean fare, Greek pastries & drinks.  I fell in love with the Greek cream puffs that looked kind of like Italian cannolis.  I bought a dozen for my Sunday dinner dessert, along with 2 round loaves of freshly made bread.

            We had fun sitting & chatting for 2 days.  We also had a few friends come to visit.  Unfortunately, we didn’t sell much & we were very disappointed.  That’s when I remembered why I stopped having garage sales.  They’re a lot of work for hardly any return.

            I packed up my stuff when the flea market closed on Sunday & took it to the Goodwill.   

 "The Original 7" by Janet. Her journaling: 1. Gene & Gerry Zimmermann became a couple and then parents of 7 children. 2. Easter with Grandma  & Grandpa Preli Joyce is just a baby. 3.A Christmas photo of the whole family 4. Grandma Zimmermann was grabbed for this family shot at Janice’s wedding. 5. All together before Mom & Joyce move to South Bend IN. 6. Christmas at Barb’s in Nashville TN 7. Lined up in birth order (youngest to oldest) Joyce, Matt, Jeanne, Jennifer, Janice, Ron and Barb, that makes The Original 7. ~Then comes The Next Generation~ Ranya I, Angie S, Sami I, Sandy E, Zack MZ, Mike RZ,- John S, Mindy E, Jackie RZ, Stephanie E, Jessica MZ, - Alicia MZ, Madison & Devon Smith

 This was Linda's layout from last month.

 "It's all in the Math" by Pam.

As usual Karolyn blew us away with the memorabilia she has on her layout "Go Figure." She has a little math exercise from when she was little as well as a grocery list written by the store clerk where it was "phoned in"---in the old days when you used to be able to do that.

I did a pie chart for my layout---"My Treadmill Desk is 70% Awesome." My journaling was taken from my blog.

 

Nineteen plus years ago, Jim and I were married on January 7, 1995 in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.  Since it was the second marriage for both of us, we decided to elope and avoid trying to figure out where to have the wedding and who should be invited. 

We skied Heavenly that day until about 3 pm.  We then headed down the mountain, cleaned up and drove into town.  We had a lovely Mexican dinner that included fajitas and margaritas.  At about 8 pm we enjoyed a lovely ceremony at Harvey’s Wedding Chapel.

After skiing another day we headed across to San Francisco to enjoy the rest of our honeymoon.  We ran into substantial snowfall and ended up having to buy chains and pay some guy to put them on the car before the highway patrol would let us proceed.

Once in San Fran we toured the city.  The most memorable day was when we rented bicycles and road across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito.  After enjoying a lovely lunch and a look around we caught the ferry back across the bay to San Francisco.