I saw an add earlier this week for a Hillbilly Swap close to where we live and I thought to myself ‘how could you pass up something like that?’ I had no idea what a Hillbilly Swap was, but it sounded interesting so I went. I knew the town where it was going to be held and even though the directions on the add said that you should take this one highway, I just thought that maybe they didn’t know what they were talking about. I mean, I really don’t know the area exactly where I was headed to this morning, but how hard could it be right? There are a lot of smaller communities and towns around us and this was one of them. So I grabbed a Diet Coke and some breakfast pizza from the gas station and I was off. I had the cat carrier in the car just in case I found something cool. Daryl said it would take around 45 minutes to get there and he was spot on. Now to find the swap meet. I started to drive around and was really kind of surprised how big the town was. But honestly I should still be able to find this place. I wasn’t having any luck trying to see if I could stumble across it and then I got another plan. I saw some trucks with trailers driving through town and now where in the world would they be going this morning at 8:00 other than the swap meet? Well…. I guess they were going to other places. I did find the Coop in town though 🙂 Finally I had to break down and ask someone where I should be going. The directions she gave were pretty much exactly what the add said. Hum, maybe I should have just followed that instead. My running around cost me about a half of an hour, so that wasn’t too bad and soon I was parking the car. I was pretty excited to see all the cars and was wondering what treasures that I could find there for myself. As I paid my $3 to get in, I’m still thinking that I for sure should find something that I just can’t live without. As I went from booth to booth, I found out that this was more of a specific swap that I was thinking of. They didn’t have too much ‘girl’ stuff and I saw a lot of guns, chain saws, and helmets. Like I said, guy stuff. Now I do want to get a gun, but I’m thinking I better research that a little bit before I just buy one from someone’s pickup bed parked in the middle of some trees.
Hillbilly SwapÂ
So as I’m walking out of the area I thought that I just can’t leave without buying something. I did find a ruler with an advertisement from a local bank on it and I spent the $1 to call it mine.
When I was driving around earlier in the town I saw a Museum that looked interesting. 
So after the Swap Meet I tried to see if the Railroad Depot Museum was open by then. But it wasn’t. That was too bad so I was back in my car again heading home.
The morning was still early and when I was leaving I saw a sign for a greenhouse nearby. The area that I was in is known for a lot of greenhouses that the Mennonite community has. So that sounded like a good idea and off I went. I wanted a couple of geraniums for some larger pots outside so I wanted to make it a quick trip to pick them up. I didn’t have any trouble finding a greenhouse, and I actually went by 5 of them in the area.
I told you that they have a lot of greenhouses and these are the ones that I either saw the sign for or physically drove by. After seeing a couple of people that I knew in there, I had picked out more than I probably should have and into the back of the car it went.
Hauling stuff again in the car
I asked if I could take a picture inside one of the greenhouses and the young girl just smiled and said absolutely.
Just one of the greenhouses on this property
I think she was an older sister to the other 4 kids behind the counter. She looked maybe 14 and was really nice. Before I left I also just had to take a picture of one of the plants that I thought looked pretty cool until I read the description of the plant. Creeping Charlie!! We hate creeping charlie in our lawn and I would have hated to see Daryl’s reaction if I hadn’t read the description and actually would have bought it!
Now I’m back home and the guys are over at the other farm fixing one of the barn doors that was damaged in the last winds that went through. I found out why the dishwasher also made so many bubbles the other day. Have you ever walked around your house and knew that a smell wasn’t just right? Now I’m not saying that it’s a bad smell, just a different smell. So I was in the kitchen the other day and the dishwasher was going and it smelled a little more ‘soapy’ than normal. But it was a new dishwasher detergent and it was on sale, so I just thought those two things together made it smell funny. Yea. The so called funny part of this is that when I saw it was on sale I didn’t read it very close and the sale detergent is for the laundry not dishes. It caught my eye when it said that it attacks dried on ..
Pretty dumb thing to do!
No wonder I had to smash it in the little pocket thing on the dishwasher door and then I had so many bubbles. Duh! Â So today William brought home the new detergent in the green container. Yup, much better.
And the picture of the day is one of Miss Scarlet. She is out of the barn and as you can see pretty darn happy! Even Ed is keeping an eye on her.
Scarlet and Ed this Saturday morning. Scarlet is feeling pretty good!