Ruby Tuesday - Complete Chaos - September 20, 2011

I got a new India book yesterday and all I want to do is sit and look at it
but, alas, time is running out and there is so much yet left to do.  My
friend, Joanne Olivieri, aka Poetic Shutterbug, gave up her whole day
yesterday to come and help me get started on organizing for my "estate
sale" this weekend which will be from 10A to 4P at 67 Canterbury
Avenue in Daly City, CA, right near Hickey Boulevard and
Skyline ( just in case any of you are in the area! )!  I have so much
packing left and things to move to storage, not to mention that all
the furniture still has to go - and I have a friend coming from
Switzerland tomorrow.  He'll spend a few days here with me when
he isn't at his conference in San Francisco.

Jo and I did manage to get out to lunch with my friend, Silvia ( I
had liver and onions which I love - I know that most folks don't -
I even wrote a poem, "Liver and Onions"! ) and, on the way to take
Jo home, we saw a chance for some nice photos so, of course, we
had to stop!

This book is filled with so many marvels, I could easily never get packed
or moved out of my house!!!

Many years ago, my dear friend, Santos, my very first Indian friend, gave
me this beautiful cookbook.  It is filled with incredible marvels and the
most glorious pictures.  Santos, Lorna, his mother, May, and so many of
their relatives and friends made my one week stay in Mumbai so warm and
welcoming when I went back in 1997.  It is there I will begin this visit to
India.

These are my two Ruby Tuesday posts for today.  Check out the site and
add you own and join in the fun!

I'm also adding some photos of my home so you can see what my life
is like these days!!!

Sadly, almost every room is like this - boxes in every stage of being

packed, upstairs and downstairs.  I've given hundreds of things to Good

Will, before Jo talked me into an estate sale.  Over fifty pairs of my

shoes are out there somewhere in the world and, at least, two hundred

books!  I could never bear to part with a book.

 

 

I'm keeping my ancient Marantz receiver and the speakers though my

turntable died years ago.  I'd like to get another because I love all my

33-1/3 records...but, if someone wants to buy them, I'll woefully say

farewell.  I have over a hundred VHS movies I hope someone will

want.  Some nursing homes and other facilities still have videorecorders

and players.

This was my mother's owl collection - I brought it home with me from

Georgia but none of my boys, of course, wanted it and I'm not an owl

collector.  I decided it should go to someone who loves owls.  I'm having

a hard enough time parting with things I've loved all my life - like that

ferm coffee set!

Every book in here goes - they're all cookbooks ( you should see the

number I'm keeping.  About thirty years ago, I used to do some

catering but I never charged enough to make it worthwhile.  Cookbooks

were also the souverneirs I brought back from my travels.

Everything in here goes as well.  I'm not sure why but I used to collect

teapots, some of them with a hundred dollar price tag...and they were

never used for tea!  Okay, I'm crazy but I know it. 

Years ago, when a son didn't occupy my guest bedroom, it was all done up

in unicorns!  I have dozen of unicorn pictures and knick knacks.  They're

not important to me anymore.

I used to do a lot of needlework, decoupage and various arts and crafts.

I love Christmas, too, and tried to make each one different and special. 

All those books are for sale now and so is the legal book case that I

ruined by painting a cheerful yellow.

I won't say that this whole experience of  going through my life and

marking things I've treasured for sale hasn't been a really painful

experience.  Every thing I touch spawns so many memories and I've

shed more than a few tears.  I've left off the eye makeup and mascara

or I'd really look a fright.  I know my boys don't realize how traumatic

this is for me.  "Junk," they call it - a lifetime of joy it's been for me.

It's a good thing my years are numbered.

I just want to say a very big thank you to Joanne Olivieri, aka Poetic

Shutterbug who is the best of friends and always the greatest help to

me whenever I need her ( which is constantly! ).