Southern Yard Sales

We really love yard sales in the south. When the weather starts getting warm. Everyone drags out their junk to sell in a yard sale.

Or if you have a garage, a garage sale. And we love flea markets.

I can understand why you would say a yard sale or a garage sale. If you have your sale in your garage, it's a garage sale. Or if you have your sale in the yard, well you get the picture.

But where in the world did the name flea market come from. I love going to them, but I do not remember anybody selling fleas. There is always someone there selling their puppies.

Never have seen anyone selling fleas. Back to us selling our junk.

My mom says that her little truck won't let her pass a yard sale. She says that as soon as she starts going by one without stopping, her truck starts trying to turn into it. She figures, why fight it.

Now you probably think you have some things in your house that nobody would even want to look at much less buy. But I promise you there is someone somewhere in the south who would love to put it on their mantle or hang it on the wall.

Every year in August, we have what has been called the worlds longest yard sale. It starts in a little town on the outskirts of Gadsden, Alabama and it goes all the way up to Ohio.

I not pulling your leg. To me this is the greatest thing next to barbecue ribs. It starts on Thursday and ends on Sunday.

And believe me when I say this is an event to see. There are literally thousands of people who come to sell their junk and people like me who come to buy it.

If you have ever been looking for something that would normally be hard to find. Look here. Now you might have to search through alot of junk. But it's there.

If you are wondering how it could be called the worlds longest yard sale, let me explain.

Well it starts in Alabama and winds its way up thru Tennessee and eventually into Ohio.

There is probably no more than a half a mile in between yard sales. When you go through towns there will practically be one at every house on the yard sale route.

You could be going along and all of a sudden come to an open field and there are hundreds of people with sites set up with their junk or antiques. What ever you want to call them.

So if you are looking to do something different this summer, come check our yard sale. Now it is family friendly, but anyone with little children know that after an hour in the sun, they get really grouchy. Just remember that if you want to bring the babies.

But if you do come, make sure to wear something cool, wear lots of sunscreen and a hat is always a good thing. Lots of dollar bills, maybe even pack some snacks. And if you are going to try and see the whole thing from start to finish, better make your hotel reservations early. Believe or not they fill up fast. And even if you don't bring anything to eat or drink. Don't worry there is always someone cooking something and they usually have a big cooler filled with water and drinks.

Last year I made it to Tennessee, but I had a family emergency and had to leave. But this year I'm definitely going to try to see it all. Oh I just remembered, I have got to call my friend Charlotte and make sure she is going with me. She is a yard sale junkie, and in the south that is a good thing.

How To Get Ready For Summer

How do you get ready for summer? Is there a manual somewhere or a video to watch?

What do you do to get ready for summer? Do you go on some crash diet, in hopes of getting into the new swimsuit that you bought on sale. Telling yourself that you are getting into shape to be able to wear that size 6 swimsuit when you really wear a size 10.

Or do you start going to the tanning salon to get a head start on your supposedly natural tan.

I start out with good intentions. I'm sure you are like me and you have a work out program that you are going to start. But you never seem to have the time to do.

But you do eventually go to the gym and work out like a crazy person. Of course then the next day or so, you are so sore that you can't move. Much less work out again.

Then you either go to the tanning salon, or if you are like me, cheap. You sunbath in the backyard, where hopefully no one sees you.

And then you get in that warm sun and fall asleep. Of course you know what happens next, instead of a golden tan, you look like a lobster. You know, RED

Well whatever you do to prepare for summer, just remember to always, always wear sunscreen. Drink plenty of liquids when you are out in the sun either playing or working.

But whatever you do to prepare for summer, just have lots of fun.

I Love Movies

Do you have a favorite movie? If someone ask me that, I don't think I could pick just one. There are literally thousands that you could pick from. I know that I personally have a collection of over a hundred movies myself.

I don't have a preference of what kind of movies that I like. I just love them all. But I do have some that I like to watch more than once.

There are some movies that have won all kinds of awards, that I haven't seen. I have never seen Titantic. Honest. We all know how it ends. And in case you haven't seen it, the boat sinks. Among other things.

When we first moved to Florida, we couldn't afford cable. So we had a few movies that we watched alot. I mean alot. We had George Straits movie, Pure Country. We watched that movie so much, that we could turn the volume down and play the parts.

Even though we watched that movie to many times to count, I still love it.

What do you like? Do you like thrillers? I use to love them, but then I became an adult. What is it when you are a teenager about watching horror movies?

Did you like all the blood and gore? Or did you like watching the movie and screaming at the girl not to go into the room, because someone was standing behind the door with some big knife.

My mom always ask me why I screamed at the tv. She said that they couldn't hear me, I just told her I couldn't help myself.

Hey got to go, just seen previews for one of my favorite movies coming on. I bet you can't guess what it is. Here's a clue, I don't need the volume to watch it.