So I had this light I thought I would like in my dining room…..so I had bought it somewhere on ebay cheap. But after I got it, and Fred hung it I just did not like it.  It was to small and did not give much light and always hung crooked!

So I had been wanting to do some kind of light fixture with canning jars for in my eclectic home with all my odds and end old things.  Monday Caleb, Cecilia, my cousin Charlotte and I had made a run to Burlington Iowa to pick up a wall oven we had found for Mom on craigs list.  When we got there the Electric oven turned out to be gas……otherwise it would have been great.  $30 for a almost new wall oven and stove top!  Charlotte decided to buy it for maybe future use or to resell.   So while we were there we went to Hobby Lobby!  (love that store…..not as much as Old Tyme Pottery though)  and then went to both  a Goodwill & Salvation Army thrift store.  While at the Salvation Army, I found my light!!!  Woohoo!!  So happy…..

So I took it home, told hubby what I wanted to do, (he looked at me kinda funny) and I started painting.  FirstI spray painted the light fixture black, I had a friend Becca from Hopkins Lumber in town help we use a drill press to cut the holes in the jar lid flats so we could fasten the jar lids w/rings to the fixture.  Spray painted all of that.  Then my handy hubby took down the old fixture, and rewired the new one up for me.  Cecilia and Caleb screwed on my jars and here it is!!  I am so very pleased!  However I think I will make a change,  Im going to switch out the quart jars for pint jars, I think it will look more balanced.  I might also switch out the bulbs,  the little clear round ones  in it now are the ones that came with it.  They are 60 watt bulbs and with 9 of them its pretty bright.  It also glares a little so, Im thinking 40 watt bulbs and maybe frosted ones! Even so I am very very happy with my “new” light!

Tuesday morning Fred broke his heel when he jumped off of the back of the feed truck (about 4′) when he heard the farmer screaming.  Apparently the farmer had gotten out of the tractor to adjust the forks and had left a 2 yr. old grandson in the tractor who accidently pushed the lever and dropped the forks onto the mans foot crushing it.   Fred heard him screaming and went to help. When he landed he broke his heel.  Later we found out that  the man had three bones in the top of his foot broken and it smashed the foot so hard that it squished muscle and tissue out through the toes so he also had to get stitches.  Poor fella. 

So Fred’s heel is broken in his left foot.  Next week once the swelling goes down we are to go back to the orthopedic Dr and have a cast put on it.  He is to wear the cast for at least 8 weeks and not put weight o the heel. The Dr said that he should expect at least 2 yrs of pain.   Freds foot is very black & blue.

This past Sat.  Cody was trying to finish up his community service, Fred was taking Caleb and my nephew Brady to their Hunters Safety class, and Cecilia had went with Novalee and her family for the day to the Downing Appreciation Days, so Chancy and I spent all morning together and a good part of the early afternoon, going to a local fleamarket that is the 2nd weekend of each month and to a local estate Auction.  At the flea market I spent $12 on myself…bought three things

nothing I needed but some things I liked!  blue pottery bowl $6, old blue transferware plate $2  cute little winter christmas decoration $4

I spent $45 for Hubby! 

$40 for a dead sign for our road, and $5  for the spreader!

Chancy spent $100

 on a pair of chaps for bareback riding ;-( 

 ……..oh to be young. 

after that we went to the Estate sale.

Chancy bought a bunch of very long drill bits

of some sort that Fred was wanting  for $7

and I bid on a few things but everything I was interested in was going high.  So I told a friend of mine who is an antique dealer in Memphis MO that I was going home but there was a cute little old pottery bowl with a red stripe around it and a few little red stars on it that I would like to have.  I told her what I would be willing to spend and she said she would bid on it for me.  I also pointed out a blue pottery bowl that I was interested in. When I told her what I would spend on it, she laughed and said you will not get it.  She was right it went for almost 3 times what I was willing to pay.    She did get the other bowl along with a few other things they put in a lot for less then half what I had been willing to pay!   

 I was very happy

It was a good day!  With good deals and lots of quality time with my Chancy!

what do we do on labor day? 

It looks like most of my children think we sleep.  

Fred had to work today   

 I am baking cookies in anticipation of a possible softball game

 this evening with anyone from the church who can come.

Caleb decided to play monopoly by his self.