Friday, April 10, 2020 – Sale and Delivery of Cubby, Plus the Crazy Goat Lady

Hey Sweetie,
Had a great night sleep, Lola slept through the night and didn’t bother me in the least, yay! I woke up this morning, and for the first time in YEARS, I didn’t have something I absolutely had to do, nothing, nada. I contemplated doing some computer but otherwise taking the day off when I got a call from Jeff saying he had decided NOT to come up and get anything, mostly because of the coronavirus, so that meant I could start listing the rest of the items I was holding on to for him. I started by listing the Cub Cadet riding lawnmower we just bought before we went back on the road, with less than 30 hours on it, and within 30 minutes I had someone offer to buy it, if I could deliver it to him, at a place that was almost two hours away. He offered me more than what I was asking, so how could I turn that down? It was a cold but beautifully sunny day, a perfect day for a drive, so I thought, why not? Didn’t have anything else I absolutely had to do, so I headed over the house, hooked up the little trailer, loaded up the Cubby, which started without any trouble since I had put the battery on charge a couple of days ago, and voila! We were off and running! I stopped at Walmart for diesel and paid the unbelievable price of $2.16 a gallon! I even saw gas station later in the day that had regular gas for as low as $1.18 a gallon! I haven’t seen prices like this since I was in college a hundred years ago, amazing! Anyway, while I was driving toward Lewisburg, I thought about the horse expo in Murfreesboro we went to a few years ago, and our vendor neighbor who called herself the crazy goat lady, who made the most wonderful lavender hand cream, which I had used up a few months ago. I knew she lived somewhere in that area, so I quickly googled her, found her and called her, and as good fortune would have it, she welcomed my visit. So I dropped off the Cubby with no problem, then went out to visit her, and we had a nice chat and I picked up a couple cakes of lavender soap and hand cream, then she reminded me about the fudge spoons she made, I had almost forgotten about those! You remember those delicious varieties of goat fudge on a spoon? I still had ONE in the freezer from when we saw her over two years ago! So I stocked up on a bunch of them, too, in a whole selection of flavors. She gave me a tour of her little goat farm, it was lovely! I finally had to head home, which took almost two hours, but it was a beautiful drive, and got back only to find there were no open places to park, though my neighbor moved his truck so I could park the truck and trailer without blocking anyone else. I didn’t worry about the horses, they have plenty of hay, and I left their winter blankets on since it’s getting near to freezing again tonight. So I settled in for the night, and decided to watch the seasons of Madame Secretary that were made after we quite watching it on the networks (when we ditched the dish in favor of Netflix and Amazon Prime!), saw a couple of episodes of that (with Lola in my lap, which she’s taken to doing lately), so now I’m headed to shower and bed, as usual. So, good night now, darlin’! Love you!