Thursday, June 03, 2004
Interesting Saturday!
Well it's been almost a week since I last posted so in trying to keep my plan of blogging at least once a week here goes: Not much to tell. I am really enjoying my new furniture - so much more comfy than the old stuff! And it really goes great with the camel colored walls I painted several months back! Now I just need new tile floors and it will look great! Saturday I went to work with the hubby and had a nice afternoon. Since it was Memorial day weekend the store was only opened til 1:00 so I decided to go since I hadn't seen the store since it first opened in January. The store looks really good now! I found a chair with cowboy material on it that I want! Anyway - after we closed up the store we went to the store owners house who was having a garage sale so my hubby could help him move a couch and pick up the new one they bought from the store and bring it back to their house. Anyway his wife was closing up her sale and said I could have anything I wanted that she had left. I got a brand new game for the kids a German mug for the hubby and some books. I got several cookbooks! I love cookbooks! One of them was a cookbook that I almost bought once that sold for $20 that I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much for so I was really excited! One was a bread machine book and 2 were for barbecue/grilling and one Low fat cooking that all sound great! Books are always the first thing I look for at a garage sale. I mostly look for books that I can use for our homeschool. I just love books! I can thank my mom for that. She loves books too and that was one thing she instilled in her kids was a love of good books! She used to take me and my sisters to the library every week and we always got as many as they would allow us to take and we would have half of them read by the next day or two. We started reading the minute we got into the car. Except one of my sisters who gets carsick. She will get sick if she reads even a sentence in the car! On our family vacations she always had to take dramamine every time! Speaking of vacations I am determined to go to the coast this summer no matter what. We haven't gone fishing in forever! :( Anyway back to Saturday - after we left the store owner's house my hubby took me to "The Country Spirit" restaurant! the food was excellent although kinda pricey! The restaurant resides in an old house that was built in 1879. It was the first 2-story house built in Boerne by a french architect and used to be known as "The Mansion" It had several owners over the years and then was bought by a lady who renovated the whole house and made it into "The Country Spirit" Restaurant. She just sold it this past January and Me and the hubby met and talked to the new owner who gave us a tour and told us all about the history of the house. He intends to change the name back to "The mansion" and add some more items to the menu. Of course the story that goes with the place is that there are 3 ghosts that live there, Augusta, Fred, and, David. Augusta was a former owner of the house and loved it so much she decided to stay when she passed away in her sleep in the house. David was supposed to have been a teenager who was killed in front of the building in some sort of wagon accident, and Fred is an old man who was a spirit passing through and liked Augusta & David so much he decided to stay with them. Anyway the new owner says he didn't believe it at first and he's never seen them, but that there is definitely something weird going on in the place. Anyway Boerne is rumoured to have several ghosts in different places including the library also known as the Dienger Building where Former Owner Mr. Dienger is said to reside. After hearing all this ghost talk one is to wonder are there really ghosts/spirits? Why are they here if they are? Is this one of those things that we aren't supposed to question Yahweh about? I know ghosts are mentioned in the bible: Luke 24:38-40 and: Matthew 14:25-27 But I just don't know what to think. I guess I need to do more study on the subject before I know. Anyway all in all I had a great time on Saturday with a nice meal to boot! After that we drove the 30 minutes home and watch the movie "Matchstick Men" with Nicholas Cage! It was pretty good! Well this is where I will leave off for today - I need to go finish a cleaning project I started yesterday. I got some of my grandma's furniture that I have been wanting and since we moved her to a different place, we have been sorting out her stuff and getting ready to sell the house. I need to make room for the furniture because it doesn't fit where I originally planned on putting it, so at the moment it is in the living room - ( 2 nightstands and an old record cabinet) Anyway will have to figure it out today! Take care all and Jesus Bless!
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