adventuring.

i've been thrifting a lot lately. i was way into it years ago. when i worked for the magazine. they were all about thrifting. and finding. iv'e always loved adventuring. i prefer to call it that. adventuring. because. you never know. what. you. might find. or run into.

last weekend. oh beehive dragged me out. i was home alone. with the littles. the spouse went west. for meetings and a game. and fun. and i was at home. with two small crazy people. lunch at andres. interesting people watching. purple hats. odd help. tables of confusion. but good food. and company. and after we dined. a run by anthropologie. its own kind of adventuring, too. a sale. a good sale. and then to the antique mall. she came across a great little table. marble top. i actually have the same table. from my grandmother. but she got a steal. a steal.

me? well, i found another p. well, actually, she found it, but i bought it. and a little vintage picture. it reminds me of someone special. so i had to bring it home.


and on the way home. i stopped at another thrift store. lots of goodies. no purchases. i was running late. but well worth the stop.

and yesterday. another day of adventuring. this time with the other yulie. to a small area in town of antique stores. some treasures i'm still contemplating going back for. and then lunch. and good conversation. and then we headed out. to some well known and well blogged about antique stores.

eech! they were crazy. crazy people. crazy. smelly. smelly. smelly. and then a shop that we had read about, heard about. were dying to go to. we went. and we won't go back. so unpleasant. so unfriendly. if you could even call it friendly. so unbearably rude. and confusing. we couldn't even figure it out. and we are shoppers. i tell you. shoppers. and nothing was marked. nothing tagged. nothing in any sort of reasonable, sane order. and help? there was no help. no inkling of even an interest in selling anything to anyone. is this how places stay in business these days? i'll give you a name if you email. i will. i promise.

but we didn't let it damper our enthusiasm.

for adventuring. we plotted our next adventure on the way home. east we decided. we'll head east.

let me know if you want to join in.