Saturday, September 24, 2011

Mistakes can happen to just about anyone...and I have proof!

And below is mine…

“Saturday, Sep. 24, 2011
2300 El Jobean Rd., Port Charlotte, FL 33948
Port Charlotte, FL

Local Phone: Please contact the Charlotte Sports Park at 941.235.5010

The Great Garage Sale at the Charlotte Sports Park
Charlotte County Community Services will host The Great Garage Sale at the Charlotte Sports Park on Saturday. Parking and admission are FREE!! Booth space for this event is available on a first-come, first-served basis. A 10x10 space consisting of one (1) 8 foot table and one chair for $21.40. A 20x20 space consisting of two (2) 8 foot tables and two chairs is available for $32.10. Completed applications along with full payment MUST be received by Wednesday, July 27. The Great Garage Sale will take place rain or shine - no refunds will be given for this event due to inclement weather.
Location: Charlotte Sports Park
Hours: 8 am-1 pm”



Today I was so looking forward to going anywhere, and so I searched
the net as I always do to see what was going on locally.

Both Hubby and I got ready to go since I needed to take my shower by the time he got up and soak my thumb avulsion injury and take my Copaxone shot and dry my hair and my thumb and re-bandage it… and get on my cooling vest; Hubby loaded in the icepacks for it.

And then I had to do a little of this and that to be ready to get into the car all to get going for our fun time out for the late morning.
We figured we would only stay for about an hour or so, and we left the house at eleven A.M. knowing that it wouldn’t be over until one P.M….
Our arrival there was about eleven twenty or so, give or take a few minutes. There were not many cars in the parking lot and we could not see any tables from where we entered and so Hubby drove round the outer circle to see perhaps if they were set back a ways…
And after a loop around to be certain I suggested to Hubby maybe it was on the ball field and since he had noticed that the gate was open and the parking lot closest to the stadium did have a sign but it said, ‘Open House’, not ‘THE GREAT Garage Sale,’ or even not so great sale. He went up to the open gate to find someone to ask, while I waited in the car.
Shortly Hubby was back shaking his head and said that the Sandcrabs were playing a game and there were about fifty people in the stands, and no garage sale tables
Just ballplayers and fans in the stadium seats.
Darn! Disappointment was thick in me.
I knew I wasn’t probably going to buy anything, except if I saw some neat looking hooks that I decided were an idea to start a collection and usually only a few bucks.
They would be on either side of our foyer mirror, the cute framed post cards I placed there from our trip to Seaside Florida back in ’05 stuck to the colorful frames I made
And there was no way to fix them without ripping them out of the frames and then tearing them to shreds, and so I thought about collecting interesting coat/hat/sweater hooks to place on either side of the mirror that they now flank. That is what I thought would be an inexpensive useful item to acquire, oh well…next time…

This is late not because of my starting late but perhaps when I tried to copy and paste the above info from its source it rearranged my margins and this has been a heck of a job trying to get it all where I could read what I wrote…
Any-who, back to my story... sweet man Hubby, asked me what we should do now, he had no idea what to do to have some excitement in our not so boring but not so calm too lives.
And so I suggested seeing if anything else was going on at the Beach Complex which was on our way home if all else failed.
We drove in and nearly as quickly drove out, nothing there either; it’s one of the ones I could find a site for.
But Hubby came through and suggested since it was nearing lunch time to go to a fast food chain, since we did have some cash on us (plus if we went in the house had lunch and then went out again Skipper would go berserk…and grab a quick lunch out would be less upsetting for him), and Long John Silvers was on our way wherever we were going and now served grilled fish too that is healthy and at bargain prices. The itinerary was decided on the Charlotte County Historical Center. That is where our book Summer of Storms is sold, published by the Peace River Center for Writers and my entry is on page 58?
Well, the books weren’t out, and they said they were in storage and would put some out and so if you go there ask for them for one.
The volunteer there was quite talkative and we seemed to be having a talk off! She and I spoke constantly, she is the cousin to one my old friends from the Writers’ Group I used to belong to.
Enthusiasm was abounding for her to explain all the historic paintings/water colors that portrayed buildings that told the story of our counties beginnings.
Many I was familiar with, since her cousin is also a history buff, especially on Punta Gorda memorable topics, since it is where she had been born and raised.
And so the visit was pleasant and access was easy for my scooter up their long wide ramp.
All in all the day had turned out to not be as big a disappoint as I first thought it would be; although we did arrive home around two thirty, and that was along day out for me.

Why you ask?
Not as one would think due to all my ailments, but I guess they could be responsible for that, but I had awoken around 3:42 A.M. and could not go back to sleep…

On that comment of interest perhaps yes or not…allow me to be the first to wish you all a very good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS I did call the toll free number also listed when that local number gave me a recording and they told me they would have someone get back to me to see if the GREAT GARAGE SALE had been postponed or something, who knows…but the woman took my name and phone number and so may be the mystery will be solved, huh?

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