Once again, Sun Valley’s annual Garage Sale Day went off without a hitch. The kids, Susan and I woke up around 7am, piled into the van shortly after and made a b-line for dad’s house. Mom, Jack, Linda and Griffin were already there waiting.

Last year, Dad, Mason and I made our way around the garage sales on dad’s two riding lawn mowers, Dad driving one with Mason and myself on the other. This year, I brought over the golf kart, and the three of us rode our way around the neighborhood while Mom and Jack walked and Susan and Linda each pushed baby strollers. My golf kart has four cup holders, so it became the rolling drink stand. It also became the “stuff hauler” — as Susan, the kids and my mom began acquiring “stuff”, it all got loaded in to and on to the kart. I think I ended up taking either three or four loads of stuff back to dad’s garage to unload. At one point in time we had half a dozen books, a Hot Wheels car, some board games, a small ice chest and a palm tree hanging off the kart.

At one garage sale I found a “spider web bungee net” like Johnny’s. It’s basically a bunch of bungee cords woven together to look like a big spider’s web, with plastic hooks around the perimeter. It’s really handy for transporting things in the back of your truck (like Dell servers …). I told Susan, “you never know when you’re going to need something like that.” I’m sure no one thought I would ever use the thing.

At the next house, we found a kid-sized bed frame for Morgan. After paying for it, Dad and I threw it right on top of the golf kart, and I broke out the bungee spider-web! Several people thought it wasn’t a good idea, but the idiocy of driving around a golf kart with three people in it (Dad, Mason and myself) full of crap with a bed frame and a SpongeBob floppy couch tied to the roof with bungee cords was too ridiculous for me to pass up. The cargo, both human and non-human, made it back to dad’s house safely.

After everyone was tuckered out from all the sales, I spent the afternoon giving the kids rides around dad’s yard in the golf kart. Here’s a picture of Mason and Griffin as we prepare to head out for a spin.