- Toys
- Clothing
- Baby Equipment
- Maternity wear
- Outdoor equipment
- Charity contributions
- Furniture
- Holiday garb
- Household items
- much, much more!
I sound like I'm trying to get you all to drive out there today, don't I? I probably would have been more help publishing this post on Friday.
The Dormouse manned a lemonade stand in her first-ever entrepreneurial endeavor:
She made about $5.00, but mostly just from the kid across the street who dubbed it the "best lemonade I ever tasted" and bought six cups, then later came back to report that his mother had told him he probably liked the lemonade because there was a lot of sugar in it. (Umm... duh.) The rest of that was from other moms and dads who came by and enjoyed hearing her yell "Ice Cold Lemonade" and "Thank you, come again!" at the top of her lungs. My child will never be accused of being shy.
The KingOfHearts decided to participate too, dragging the trebuchet he made for one of his college courses out of the attic and pressing it into service for neighborhood entertainment by launching water balloons into the street.
For the whole, made-up story on the trebuchet, you can read here and here. It was a big hit, but not surprisingly, no one wanted to buy it. So it's still available if anyone's interested (not that I'm trying to get rid of his hard earned project or anything... no really, I like storing that thing in my house and using it once every five years).
Every time I go to Monica's garage, I manage to slip on her ultra smooth concrete surface and this was no exception. I am clearly only used to a driveway that contains pocks, potholes, stray pieces of mulch, seed droppings and leaves and have not mastered the fine art of ambulating while upright on a reasonably sound surface. My foot slid about six inches in one small incident involving melted ice on the concrete, but I am still paying for it today and every time I move it's pain, Pain, PAIN. If you see a spike in Tylenol stock as the Dow closes today, I would guess that I'm mostly responsible. It should return to normal in about three weeks, so don't go crazy with the day trading.
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September 10, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Well, damn, I wish I'd known about this...I would have totally been there! I'm only about 20 minutes from Herndon.