Oops, I did it again. ..

Last weekend was Memorial Day. And it seems that most people in our neighborhood celebrated by cleaning out their garages. Not quite the intented purpose of a day of reflection and rememberance, but a windfall in terms of great stuff people were throwing out. Doubly great because we live in a neighborhood with a ga-zillion kids who are all at different stages of outgrowing just plain old good stuff.
Yup. I've been up to it again. Dumpster diving. With no dumpster. And no diving. Just plain old cruising around on our daily walk and hitting the jackpot.

You see, there's this family around the block. . . .they have this great kid I don't know, but he's the redheaded kid with the prescription sunglasses who practices his freethrow and jumpshop incessently. And he's good. But they don't quite fit in. I mean, they drive a Jaguar. And if you have a super luxury car in my neighborhood, well. . .let's just say that you're more than using your economic stimulus check creatively. My guess. . . they are getting ready to upgrade neighborhoods.

Further evidence: a throrough cleaning out of their house with the undesirables deposited on their curb last trash day.

Slightly hidden among the detritus. . .a fantastic wagon in reasonably great condition (ie: it works and keeps my kid in safely). JACKPOT! We've been considering whether or not we would really use a wagon. Here we get to try one out gratis for a while. Cha-ching!!!

I absolutely love that most people are not willing to go through the effort of a garage sale. Or Craig's list. Or EBay. Bring on trash day!!!

So here is my little man in his newly cleaned up wagon over at the daylily farm we discovered this week.

Daylilies = pretty flowers. However, they are very tall, stalky flowers, and it was difficult to get pictures of Z with the flowers. Unless he was standing among them, which was sort of precarious because he was trying to pick/eat/otherwise destroy the flowers and since this is a nursery, I'm guessing they would prefer we not ruin their livelihood.

This is my fave daylily pic.

If you shoot on over to my Shutterfly site you can see lots more. You can also see that it was about 100 degrees and we all got really sweaty. I decided (while sitting out under our covered, breezy back patio) that it was a good time of day to go take some pictures. Um. . . pictures turned out okay but we were all dripping after about 20 minutes.

Anyway. . .overall a fantastic day and a great trip to the farm. And here's their website. Clever. I love clever.