Final post for today, and this concerns our morning activity: the great Yard Sale. In the next month or so, our litle community will see great upheaval as this is the major personnel-moving time, where families shift around the States to new postings. So every year at about this time there is a huge yard sale (read car boot sale, only from your garage instead of your car) where everyone sells all the stuff they won't be able to take with them to their next posting because of weight restrictions. They have it on the military base, where hundreds of people live, and visitors come from as far as Nebraska, hiring coaches and coming in parties to try and get their hands on the stuff people want to be rid of: everything from washing machines to furniture. Although it officially started at 6am this morning, some eager beavers were on the hunt last night poaching the best stuff - we have British friends who were selling things at one of their friends houses and got there at 6am this morning to discover they were already about $20 up.
I was hoping for some nice outdoor furniture for our litle garden, but we didn't arrive until 8am, by which time most of the vultures had swooped. I did, however, manage to pick up some DVDs and a pair of brand new riding boots for $5 - bargain! It was highly entertaining to watch - people driving around in their enormous Kansan trucks with the flatbed part full of random things, like blow up boats and pushchairs. Our friends only had a couple of boxes worth of stuff to get rid of - books and some clothes and things - and they made $120. Brilliant. This time next year I'll be out there with a stall of my own.
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