I ran away from home for a few hours Saturday.
Life in the country comes with benefits and inconveniences. One of the benefits is that you're surrounded by sounds and sights of the forest. One of the inconveniences is that those beautiful trees and their branches sometimes fall and damage power lines.
We've had regular wind storms for the last few weeks, causing frequent power outages. We lost power Saturday morning. Then it came back for a while and blew again in the afternoon.
It's hard to clean, organize or do much of anything in the dark so I sat in a chair near the window to read. And promptly started to fall asleep.
Suddenly, I was irrationally angry to be wasting yet another weekend, sitting in the dark. Hiking wasn't safe even though I badly wanted to get outside. It was too late in the day to find my way to a city with a museum or something interesting to do. I'm So I messaged my cousin Sherrie and invited her to join me for some treasure hunting and dinner in Athens.
We went to Peddler's Junction where I found some bargains including this sweet little Dutch Girl, a Madame Alexander doll that is pristine and in her original packaging.
These nesting dolls were a bargain at just $3. I had admired some at a shop in Ligonier, PA two Christmases ago but they were beyond my budget.
Ephemera like these cards are some of my favorite things to collect. These small pieces of art that are easy to display and change out for the season. Plus, storage is easy.
If you look closely at the card on the right, you'll see feathers on one duck's tail. The middle piece has a hinging neck while the birthday card on the left has some fun details inside. They just don't make cards with such care and attention to details today.
Sherrie and I had dinner and hit a couple more stores before calling it a day. Power was restored and life was good again.
Sometimes we need to lean into the obstacles and find ways to work with them. I have spent a lot of time this year happily resting and reading. But sometimes we have to stand up and say "not today" and go look for something else. Yesterday took an unexpectedly fun turn.
I'm glad I shook off the sleep and took charge of my day.
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