After awakening at 1:00 am and getting on the road at 1:30, we met our friends with their truck and trailer full of treasures and caravanned to the swap meet.
We made entry and set up our wonderful shabby chic items! We had furniture, books, tools, knick-knacks, framed art, glassware, antlers and more! Our friends had mostly baby items but did really, really well. We did fine, too, and got rid of a lot of stuff. I would call it a "Swap Meet Success".
We saw the regulars there:...

We have spent the entire day getting our stuff ready for the swap meet. I also sold the 1978 Bronco today! A whopping $400, but that's OK.
The swap meet that we go to is located about 85 miles away. We load the trailer the night before with such treasures as antique furniture, cool books, tools and knick-knacks. NOT my FireKing Jadite collection, though! Then we set the alarm for 1:30 am, get up, feed the zoo (2.5 horses, 7 Angora goats, 3 Pygmy goats, 3 Kinders and 3 Nubians, 1 dog and...

I am at this moment posting items to eBay and Craigslist in the hopes of lightening our load. We will need to make several trips to move everything to Oregon, so we are really thinning our possessions. I am also organizing a load for the swap meet this Sunday.
The horses will be one load to Oregon, heck, the pipe corrals are very heavy and will be a load unto themselves! Not to mention my thinned goat herd. We will be keeping the Angora herd and three Pygmys - the buck and 2 does. Dewey the...

OK, a blog. I'll give it a try!
I wish to document our escape from California and wil keep any and all interested parties informed on a (hopefully) daily basis, as things are starting to pick up and we may be on our way soon!