Today was a big day for local yard sales! It's the day the two largest methodist churches have their spring flea market, and the day the historical society has its used book sale. It's kind of the ceremonial opening of the season, so of course we have to go to as many of them as possible.

(It's also free comic book day, so I stopped in for form's sake, but there weren't really any I wanted this year so I didn't bother fighting the crowd.)

So... when I decided to start doing this, I hoped it would prove that I don't buy "mostly books" at yard sales, I buy lots of other things too! This week's haul... does not make that case.

( From the GBIA/HS book sale )

( From the GBUMC flea market )

( From the SPUMC flea market )

Total: 27 books, 2 DVDs, 2 packs of cards and 1 LP = $10

Also, while at the sales, I ran into: my uncle, Pat from church, Mr. W. who taught with Dad, my old preschool teacher and my old third-grade teacher. And they say there's no sense of community 'round here!

Then I went to the library to do 2 hours of volunteer TAing for a "Beginning Computers" class and ended up buying some more books there, but we'll gloss over that.

Then I walked the 1.8 miles home, since it was nice, and on the way back I saw a native American koala! (By which of course I mean a groundhog Marmota monax climbing a tree, which was a new one for me. see the fall 2010 issue of Spotted Turtle for the first known photo of a native koala, taken by my uncle.)