Guess who came to play yesterday?  Well, none other than Daniel and Jonathan of course!  Peter, Heather and the boys always come on Sunday after church for dinner and usually stay until after supper.  Last night was no exception, except that Daniel and Jonathan got to stay with us while their parents went out for supper.  Daniel had fun playing with his "Paca" and Jonathan and I mostly played with  play dough and felt pictures (you have different shapes of felt and you make pictures with it and put it on a flannel backed little picture board).  We also watched a little moved called, "Olive the other Reindeer" (All of the other reindeer).  Olive was a dog who "saved the day for Santa, by filling in for another reindeer.  I just sneaked the movie on, because I thought Jonathan would like it (but he told me he wouldn't), but I put it on while he wasn't looking and he soon started watching it, and enjoyed it.  You can only watch "Blues Clues Birthday" so many times!!    I think grandparents enjoy their grandkids so much because they remember the fun things of when their kids were little, and you get to enjoy them all over again!  

Beautiful, beautiful, fall day.  The door to the store has been open most of the day..........had to open it when a man walked in leaving a reek of cigarette smoke wafting behind him.........ugh!  But, the good, up side of that is that I opened the door, and let in the beautiful day, so there can be a silver lining even to something that doesn't smell so good!

I haven't kept up on my gratitude list very well lately............goodness knows why......so here I go again......(it's a good thing to do a gratitude list when you wonder if there's a whole lot to put on it!)...

A young woman came in the store today and when I told her we were closing, she got very sad.  She told me that in her town (Santa Fe), they just don't have antique stores like ours.  She then went on to say that when she comes through here on business, she doesn't even bother to go to our "competition" because our store just has a "feel" about it, that the others don't, and well......she just loves our store! 
Hot coffee from Durango Joe's brought by my dear husband.
Good conversation with Erin on the phone.
Good sales today at the store.
Interesting conversation with customers today from Kansas, Santa Fe, and southern California.
Cold water to drink.
A good adjustment from Dr. Leahy.
A wonderful morning walk with my husband and dog before work.
The smell of clean sheets last night....I hung them out on the clothesline all day............ummmm...nothing smells better!
French toast for breakfast with real maple syrup and homemade bread!
And since we have four old vehicles, I'm thankful that right now we have two running ok! 
And I love the fact that on Mondays I get a "senior" discount at Goodwill!  How cool is that?  See there are good things to getting older! 
I'm grateful for a good laugh.....And for those of you who want a good laugh, you must go read Christopher's blog about a toilet, a stove and a maniac!  It's hilarious (typos are free!)  Here's the link....http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/index.php

And that's the end of my Gratitude list for today......

I was back at the thriftstore today after a month off.  The ladies were glad to see me, it's so nice to be appreciated!  Big news of the day..........the new building was finally approved after about two years of "negotiations" and mostly "ignoration" (my new word for the powers at be ignoring little peons like us).  It ended up being rather anti-climatic as such things can be, when you've wanted it for so long......the electric was in, the plumbing was in, the gas was in, the inspections were mostly done, but the county just wouldn't sign off on the building.   At lunch we finally told Betty to call Ken every day until he finally signed off on the building.  She called today and asked the office if she could speak to Ken, he talked to her and  told her we could move in!  Wow!  Yes, what a relief it is!  We will probably start moving things over, but not open the new store until February sometime....

At lunch we hashed out the problems of the world, church and the ..........., as we see it.  After talking about how we'd run things, I told the ladies that we need to write a column in the local paper giving our  pertinent advice for the forlorn and lovelorn, it would become nationally syndicated and then we'd become well known, end up on our own talk show, maybe even Oprah, and the world's problems would be solved........all because four little old ladies (some older than others) working in a non-descript thriftstore, knew how to solve everyone's problems............just ask us.....(umm........maybe not!) 

It was good to be back at our little thrift store, working, talking and playing Tri-dominoes on our break!