Weekend madness!

Hello again,
It's always a mad dash everywhere on a weekend, but this one isn't as crazy. For a change I thought I'd write about my usual Saturday friend Barry. He's been working as a contractor in the neighborhood for a long time, but also an avid sports fan with sports cards and memorabilia for sale on the weekends.
I've known Barry for a long time now and I have mentioned him at my website's blog. Barry can make anyone laugh; together we can be trouble. The most amount of victims of our jokes are all the people that come into the sports card shop. The rest are anywhere else we've ventured; which have been several places.
Barry was helping me seal(okay seel) the driveway of my parents house and of course we needed materials. I can't tell anyone enough times that if they don't want me to touch anything inside a store they shouldn't take me. To me stores have things for sale that you should be able to look at...even if it's NOT what you're going in there to buy.
To be honest I know better, why do you think I stopped regularly visiting Toys R Us unless I really need to go for something?
Barry has often made fun of the things I do in the store and I usually take it all in stride making a joke back. For example he says, "I have to hold your hand when we go into stores or I'll lose you." I replied, "That wouldn't work, you'd wind up holding a glove and I'd be gone."
He's actually quite lucky we didn't go into a Toy's R Us because he'd never find me in there. So why am I mentioning all this...because the store he most recalls is Canadian Tire (Crappy Tire most people call it)You're all wondering what on Earth could I possibly get up to inside a home and hardware place?

Barry, "What are you doing with that oar?"
Me, "I always wanted to stick my oar in something!"

I like testing sporting goods things, it's the closest I'll get to a team so why not? I get intrigued by the way things work and how they're used. Just like the web and all the links and things you can do here. I have a big imagination and these things tend to feed it.

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste"

Tools are even better, everyone wants to test them before buying. If they don't want you to touch it, they wrap it in plastic. If it's not wrapped up like a mummy then go ahead and try it out. Of course I draw the line on testing out anything hygienically used. They have "testers" for lip gloss etc, but I wouldn't try them.

My reason for mentioning that is this cool collapsible dolly that I was testing out in the store. They had one on display all set up so I wanted to try it out. Of course Barry thought I was playing with it. I was seriously busy trying to imagine what I would cart in it and if it would hold up. I didn't get it, but eventually I got this nice neon pink "Granny cart" to carry items in. It has this beautiful waterproof cover and has been quite useful to roll things home in.

Anyway usually Barry and I have breakfast on Saturday mornings before the shop, sometimes we eat in, other times we take it out. Now to the point of this blog and that is that Barry might be going out of the sports card business and the fun will come to an end soon.

"Live now with what you have today as it might be the last."

I hope I have left you readers with something to think about today as I always know some things can come to an unexpected end. Some pleasant, others not so pleasant, regardless always live in the moment with spirit and imagination; true life. You'll never regret it and always have fond memories.

Until next time,
Desiree Doucette