Saturday July 12, 2025

Mostly sunny and warm today with highs in the low 80’s and a bit humid.

Frances and Al arrived this morning around 10:30. After getting their stuff in the house we took off for Galax, VA. about 30 minutes from here. We stopped at a couple stores Frances wanted to check out then had lunch at Applees. Then walked over to Wal-Mart and making a stop at the new Ollie’s then heading home.

While we were in Galax we apparently had a storm here dropping over an inch and half of rain before heading on down the mountain.

Grilling out beef ribs and kielbasa for dinner.

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Wednesday July 9, 2025

Thunderstorms mid morning brought some heavy rain to the downtown area. Temperatures were in the low 80’s but cooled down this afternoon after the storms went through. I had almost an inch of rain here at the house.

We had a busy day at the store with several donations to work on. Sales under $100.00 but still good for the day. We changed out the window display and the front table books for the rest of the month in between working on donations and helping customers.

I came home and heated up some dinner then went back to town to the library for the quarterly meeting of the Library Board.

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Monday July 7, 2025

Sunny and warm today with highs in the mid to upper 80’s.

Went to the gym this morning then came home and watered all the plants and pots. This afternoon I had a Friends of the Library meeting then drove over to Donna’s for our crafting session. Four of us today. We are all working on different stuff and having a good time.

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Saturday July 5, 2025

.Sunny and nice today with highs in the low 80’s and a breeze.

Busy day at the store yesterday off and on. We did make well over $100.00. Today was busy, busy all day at the store today. Farmer’s market in the morning, parade at 2 pm, Music on Main starting at 5 pm and half price paperback sale at the store. Did well over $300.00 by the time we closed at 7:30.

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Wednesday July 2, 2025

Some major thunderstorms rolled through yesterday afternoon and last night. Total rainfall around one and half inches. Today has been sunny and breezy with cooler temperatures in the low to mid 80’s.

A busy day at the store. Lots of folks in town for the holiday weekend. We were steady all day with customers and a few small donations to work on. Almost made $200.00 dollars.

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Monday June 30, 2025

Mostly sunny thisĀ  morning and warm. Highs today in the mid 80’s. Clouds moved in this afternoon bringing the temperature down with a couple of brief off and on showers.

Gym this morning then home for lunch and off to Donna’s for our crafting afternoon. Went inside to play with the dogs for a few minutes before I left to come back home.

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Saturday June 28, 2025

After a couple of warm days into the low 90’s we are back to low 80’s again. Some storms around the county this afternoon but so far have missed me and the downtown area.

We had two really good days at the store with mostly out of town folks escaping the heat down the mountain. We did over $100.00 yesterday and over $200.00 today. A good end to the month for sales.

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Wednesday June 25, 2025

Sunny and warm today with highs in the low 90’s and a bit of a breeze. Much cooler than down the mountain for sure.

A busy day at the store. We had a couple of donations come in and did well over $100.00 in sales. Pretty steady all day except for lunch time and late in the afternoon before closing.

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Monday June 23, 2025

Warm and sunny today with highs in the upper 80’s

I went to the gym this morning then came home and watered all the plants and did some weeding. This afternoon I went to Donna’s to craft until around 3:30.

I came home then she came over to pick me up. We went to Elkin for her dentist appointment then went to Jersey Mike’s then shopped at Dollar Tree and Ollie’s then came home.

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Saturday June 21, 2025

Mostly sunny and warm today with highs in the upper 70’s and breezy.

We had a great day at the store yesterday making over $100.00. Another good day today. Very busy this morning with customers and two big donations to work on. After a brief lull in the middle of the day things picked up again until closing. We did well over 300.00 today so a good weekend all around.

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