Crazy Silly Dream

As my family can well attest to, I am the world's craziest dreamer! I could write best-selling fiction novels and script award-winning movies and television shows with some of the dreams I have! They are always so vivid and unbelievable.

I was telling my Mom and Sister about one wacky dream I had last night, and Mom said "Girl, you could write a book just on your dreams alone!" so I thought I'd blog about it instead. And before I get started, no, I did not eat chocolate before bed last night! (Chocolate can make me have some super extravagant dreams, for sure!)

Anyway, last night I dreamed I had a big booth in an antique mall, and in my booth I had this old Victorian wicker baby carriage for sale. It was white and very ornate and I'd had it for sale for a long time with no takers. I was only asking $125 for it, and that was a steal! Well, I was working in my booth, straightening things up and dusting, and this old man came up to me. He was from Transylvania or Romania or something because he had that kind of "Count Dracula from Sesame Street" kind of accent. He was a dealer in the mall too, but he really creeped me out.

He came up to me and said "I av somsing very impor-tant to show you. Come vith me." and he led me over to my antique baby carriage. He said "Look here." and pointed one of his gnarly old fingers at this little glass dome in the middle of the handle to the baby carriage. I assumed the dome housed the mechanism to steer the baby carriage left or right, but he told me that sometimes, that little glass dome housed something "very special."

He asked me if he could take it apart and see if what he suspected was true. I told him sure, no problem, and then I went about my business while he carefully took the dome off the baby carriage. Awhile later, he came to me and tapped me on the shoulder and very dramatically said, "Behold! It is true and I av found it!" He handed me this beautiful solid gold pin with a big stone of some sort in the center, encircled with gorgeous pearls. I was totally shocked! The gold was brilliantly polished and the stone was shining so brightly, as if it had never seen the light of day. It was totally untarnished. He told me it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars! I was so excited and despite his creepiness, I just hugged him and thanked him over and over.

Wierd, huh? I sure have some doozy dreams! Then, the rest of my dream carried on with ghosts and children that could see ghosts, and me and the children chasing the ghosts up and down a staircase in an old Victorian house.

Me and hubby are going to a big antique auction tomorrow, so you can bet if they have any ornate baby carriages for sale, I'm going to be bidding on them for sure!

Assembly Required

The last weekend of May was a busy one at our house. While out exploring one Saturday, hubby and I stopped at an Ace Hardware in Bellevue and bought four adirondack chairs for our yard. I've always wanted a set, and they just happened to be on sale. The only hitch in the giddy-up was, the chairs came in a box and the box was stamped "Assembly Required." Oh boy!

We opened one of the boxes on the display and got the instructions out to see how hard it would be to put one together. The salesperson assured us it wasn't hard at all if you were organized about how you laid it all out and as long as you just took things step-by-step. Hubby seemed up for the project, so we bought four "chairs" and about nine cans of red spray paint and headed off for home.

We couldn't have picked a worse weekend for an outdoor project! We were in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave with temperatures in the 90's and it was miserable, but as soon as we got up Sunday morning, we found ourselves out in the backyard tackling the first chair. Sid set up a big piece of plywood on top of two sawhorses for our table and we laid out all the pieces of wood and bags of hardware. First step was to paint all the boards. After they were dry, we got out those handy-dandy instructions and started with chair number one.

About an hour later, we had the first chair together and boy was it ever beautiful! Exactly what I had always wanted and absolutely perfect! One down and three more to go! Poor hubby spent the entire day painting, waiting for paint to dry, and then assembling and later that evening, we had four perfect chairs around our fire pit.

While we were building chairs in the backyard, another "Assembly Required" project was happening on our front porch. It seems that two sets of red finches decided to build nests in each of our ferns and they must have been busy all day because that evening when I went to water the ferns, there were two perfectly formed nests that hadn't been there the evening before.

Now, a few weeks later, we've been enjoying our beautiful new chairs and the finches have filled their nests. One nest has five newly hatched baby birds in it, and the other has two tiny blue eggs. All of us are reaping the benefits of a job well done!