Yes, I admit it. I am a true book addict. Any sign by the side of the road containing the two words "book" and "sale" brings me to a screeching stop as I leave rubber on the road and shove the poor startled car into reverse. I've been very good at not giving in to my addiction lately. In fact, I have even made Goodwill the recipient of some of my book collection, a very difficult thing to do. But this was a holiday weekend. Time to do something for myself. I weakened. Yes I did. I did something I haven't done for several years. We drove to Falls Village for the monthly tremendous fantastic stimulating out-of-this-world book sale at the DM Hunt Library http://www.huntlibrary.org/events/. I was in book heaven, truly. SO many books.
To make the day even more special my sister, another book lover, met me there. I don't get to see her very often so this was a wonderful treat.
Several years ago when she was going through a pile of books that I had bought some years before at a used book sale she found $100 in one of the used books I had purchased. A rich person's book mark? I told her that I would split the money with her the next time we went to a book sale together. "Next time" took a long time in coming but this was it so we each entered this event with $50. Can life get any better than this, especially when most of the books were $2? And to make things even more wonderful, besides the upstairs room-full-of-books, they have added a huge new space downstairs including old and rare books. Oh, be still my heart.
This is just an itsy bitsy tiny % of the books they had. Oh, those wonderful people who put this together..............
It was just one of those fantastic days. So simple but so memorable. Once we finished lugging our treasures to the car we drove along the river to the Daylily Farm http://hardydaylilygarden.com/ where my sister looked for and found a lovely pale yellow lily among their hundreds and hundreds of varieties. As we roamed through the acres of lilies under the gorgeous blue sky we could hear the roar of the Falls Village falls in the background. Life is sometimes very good.
We followed this up with a visit to The Toymakers Cafe https://www.facebook.com/pages/Toymakers-Cafe/190664957654987 where we sat on the front porch and ate our lunch feeling like we had stepped back in time to a quieter and simpler place.
Being surrounded by a plethora of books and spending time with my sister was the perfect combination to make my holiday weekend complete and one of the best in a long time. Days like this make me wish that my family lived closer to me.
My wonderful haul for the weekend. 25...I am SO excited!! Can't wait to get started.
Paul's haul. 7............and this makes me feel like a book glutton.
I saw oh-so-many more that I wanted to buy but my arms just couldn't hold another book. But I WILL be back. And I can't wait. My addiction is in full swing. And why not. I'm retired and I need something to do.
