Drive By Shopping

So this town in our area was having a town wide garage sale and my neighbor couldn't go like we planned so my husband decided to go to hunt for a grill. It is he who coined the title phrase. Now, to say this was a town is exaggerating. It is a bunch of spread out roads all intersecting somehow. Luckily they had a map of the area and a listing of what houses were participating. The only problem was my husband does not trust my map reading skills and did not look at it before we went thus insuing a discussion of "are you sure" and "where in the world are we?". It was not extremely spectacular but we did end up with some good finds - a large crock for $3, an old copy of The Praire by Cooper, some cloth napkins, a basket for the nursery, a bag full of baby clothes $5, an old stitched picture, a teenage mutant ninja turtle kite for my brother, some tires (every place had tires...so weird), a diper genie $3, and for my husband, a trumpet. Yep, a trumpet. He used to play and misses having one so we found one and bartered for $50. Not bad for a mornings work. I also taught him the need for early arrival. I'll train him yet.