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  • jazzygirl
    jazzygirl Posts: 12,047

    Anybody sell thing on E-bay here? I think we have some folks who buy, but I am looking to sell a higher end mountain bike and wanting to ask folks who are regular sellers of things to find out some tips on how to do this. If you have experience selling stuff, especially some "bigger items" that have to be shipped, PM me?

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Posts: 15,889

    Jazzy, none here............Only know the buying end. Should be selling though, every things full.  Be wary of Craig's List if you think of going that way. Hope the contract got completed YAY more money coming in.

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Posts: 8,178

    Confrence for music teachers. Hadn't planned on taking kids.

    From flight todayimage

  • susan3
    susan3 Posts: 2,631

    jazz...my daughter buys and sells on Craig's list. She loves it. I went with her and hubby once to look at a training thing for a bike, to ride indoors. After they decided to take it, I said to the buyer...it was nice meeting you, have a great day . When we got back in the car, my daughter told me....never chit chat during a sale. So not cool. So I guess there is "appropriate " behavior that I am unaware of....lol good luck selling bike. Perfect time to do it now

  • Rosevalley
    Rosevalley Posts: 1,664

    Spookie- cute DD and GS! Looks like they are a handful. spunky!

    We have sold quite a few things on Craig's List and purchsed quite a few. It's a good way for folks to hook up.

  • jazzygirl
    jazzygirl Posts: 12,047

    Thanks ladies. Too many bad stories around here with Craig's list, not something I will deal with as a single chic. The bike store guy I talked to today also said no one here will buy a bike on Craig's list for a higher end mountain bike, sounds like he tried it. That is why he suggested E-bay. I will do some more exploring and welcome to more experiences.

    Sassy- still waiting on the contract to review. Things move slow here in the summer, but going to check in with them by Wed. I figure I will give it a few days after the long weekend and ping them on Wed. I am ready to get working, and hope they get moving! The state organization we will do work for needs to bring a project to us too.

    I did talk to the insurance company today and got the name of the company that will come look at my broken headlight. Called the dealer for the best place to get the work done too. Now we wait for the adjuster to come....

  • jazzygirl
    jazzygirl Posts: 12,047

    I think I will try this tomorrow.

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Posts: 4,243

    Patty, I am glad you enjoy the pics. It is amazing how our minds work. I amazed how we can actually stir up our emotions with your imagination. Hoping doc can get your pain under control soon. No fun in pain and not being able to sleep.

    Susan, with swim meets, you hurry up and wait, then individual events is over in a few minutes. My exhaustion usually carried to the next two days after the meet because of the heat, commuting, and waking up early

    Ms. Chevy, the pic of the young ballerina hanging upside down is very much me until I fell down and hit my head...then I became "prim and proper" on the outside. I was called "weird"by one of my classmates in college for going to the movie by myself. What is wrong with going to the movie by yourself? It is not like you are going to chit chat during the movie.

    Ok Ms. Sass, my girls

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    DD1--second from the right(top pic)

    DD2-- holdingshaved ice with her boy cousin in back ground and Sis in stripe shirt

  • susan3
    susan3 Posts: 2,631

    those swim pics bring back great memories. Beautiful girls !!
  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Posts: 8,178

    Cute kids! Pool looks good too!!

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Posts: 15,889

    Oh Loverly, they are beautiful.....

  • jazzygirl
    jazzygirl Posts: 12,047

    Loverly- ThumbsUp

  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Posts: 4,243

    Thank you!


  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Posts: 4,243

    Ms. Spookie, i meant to comment about your GS. Very cute and mischievous looking. Also, I was thinking ....less than 15k and car out of battery ...,probably from excessive flooring of the gas pedal or cruising down Indian Rocks Beach with your boom box in full blast?

    Jazzy, you are really going to respond to a stranger with a "You can see me?"? You are warped too.

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Posts: 8,178

    Indian Rocks!!!! You know my area????? Believe it or not, I haven't been there for 20+ years. Don't know why really.

    Yes, the boys TOGETHER are a major handful. By themselves they are good kids.

    Oh, me speeding in my bitty car? Top end is 85. That's funny!!!! Rose had a Spark for a rental, she didn't like it.

  • jazzygirl
    jazzygirl Posts: 12,047

    Loveroflife- you never know, I am a queen of pratical jokes! And thank you for saying I am warped. Makes me like you that much more.....LOL!

    Your girls really are gorgeous. Three of them in total? What ages?

  • MarlanaB
    MarlanaB Posts: 193

    Jazzy -- I agree about craigslist--it's usually sketchy. Most of our burglars use it as a way to sell their stolen goods. If I did buy something off of it, I would have the seller give me the serial number then call the local police to see if they check to see if that item is stolen. I have bought concert tickets that way and been okay but I prefer ebay. As for wild spinach, I've never tried it. My brother has wild asparagus that grows in the drainage ditch in front of his house that's he's picked and says is pretty tasty.

    Sas--I have been sleeping a lot on the couch with just a loose sheet on it and another covering me because it's cooler than my room. I'm also using a standing fan pointed directly at me. The combination seems to be helping me sleep longer without waking up. As for the dog eating the bed, been there, done that. And I have plenty of flat sheets--we went through about 6 fitted sheets because he kept playing tug of war with them! My shepinois was hell on wheels as a puppy. But how can anyone stay mad at this face:

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    Spookie and Loverly -- cute grandkids and kids! Loverly, when I ran track in high school it was a lot of hurry up and wait around. We used to bring an easy-up and take naps! In college, I competed in the heptathlon so I was constantly running from one event to another and trying to change shoes from running spikes to jumping spikes to javelin boots to throwing shoes.

    Chevy -- that photo is me, also. I once had a school counselor that told me I was one of the few students she'd ever seen that could walk the thin line between doing what I want and doing well in school.

  • Rosevalley
    Rosevalley Posts: 1,664

    Loverly way cute kids. Marlana- adorable puppy pictures. Those of you with dogs will appreciate this story. My border collie Tess is a very good dog. She has never gotten up on the counter and gotten food. SHe is 10 years old, 45 pounds and tall. Until tonight. My DH made a lovely chiabata roast beef and hivarti dill sandwich. He left it on the counter when the commercial break was done and tiny house show came on. We love watching the tiny house show. I heard a gasp and yelling... next commercial break when DH went back in to add honey mustard and wrap the sandwich up for his lunch! Tess was groveling, the sandwich gone... our other little dog Ruby 16 pounds and short, probably got none. I had to laugh... temptation like that is just too much for even a good dog! haha

    I get more fluid off tomorrow. Yay! Count down Blondie!

  • susan3
    susan3 Posts: 2,631

    great pic spooks! Hope you are having a great time with them

  • susan3
    susan3 Posts: 2,631

    imageFrom my ride yesterday. I am on left, white shirt. And my latest project. image


  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Posts: 10,258

    Yes Loverly.... Very pretty for sure! And so is your fur-face Marla! Winking

    It is REALLY cool here, and misty! DD from Orlando will LOVE it when she gets here tomorrow.... It is only 58 right now! YOWsers!

    Gotta get this house ready... AND the yard... Been working at it for 2 weeks, but started painting, and that takes awhile! Won't be anywhere near finished, but it still looks better.

    Going to lay down a big piece of out-door carpeting on our Patio today.... hopefully! No more pasting it down, that stuff is a pain.... A few large-head screws will work better.... Okay.... it's light enough out... gotta get busy....! xoxo

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Posts: 8,178

    DD is in Denver with the boys, freezing and pissed. She says it's foggy and misty, and they haven't seen any mountains. But she sent this pic. All over Chevy?image

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Posts: 8,178

    Oh my! Supposedly my little town is a great place to live. Hmmmmm

    DH, and TV confirmed that 6 punks had BOMBS at the entrance to our dog park!!!!!! The punks had detonated one, the cops came, Bomb Squad detonated another!!!! Damn. Isn't anything safe anymore?

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Posts: 8,178

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  • jazzygirl
    jazzygirl Posts: 12,047

    Spookie- sounds like trouble in your neck of the woods.

    Made two quiches this morning, one in the back is the wild spinach, bacon and cheese one and the front is artichoke, bacon and smoked gouda one. Just taste tested them and yum yum!

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  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Posts: 8,178

    recipies PLEASE. DH would eat the Gouda on

  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Posts: 4,243

    Jazzy, you are teasing us here with those delicious looking quiches. Yes,recipe please. I have two girls. Older is 17. Same age as Mel's younger daughter. Where is Mel anyway? My younger is 12.

    Ms. Spookie, my nephews look like angels when they sleep, but when they are awake, it's a different story. This is not the same daughter who plays the bagpipes?

    I have never been to Indians Rock Beach. My sister is getting married there next month. She moved to Florida last year and just bought a house in Debary. California is too boring for her. Hope the damage to the dog park is not too great. Should send those young men to Iran or Iraq. What in the world were they thinking??!!!!

    Susan, you are speed reading again? Haha you almost confuse me there with where Ms Spookie's daughter going with her boys. Lovely smile, by the way.

    Rose, love your story about Tess! Temptation was too great for self-control. One day,Mom came home from work and found a wrapper of one of her Vietnamese Tamales next to the other ones in the center of the table. Didn't think anything of it and thought maybe it was Dad who forgot to throw the wrapper away. Few minutes later, hmmmm?? Where is Nala? After a few calls, she hesitantly crawled out of her crate. Mom said evidence was all over her white fur face and paws. Until this day, they don't how she was able to jump up to the table with all the chairs pushed in and how she was able to get the sticky rice out of the banana wrapper without tearing it to pieces

    Ms Chevy, thank you. They are five years apart, but get along well most of the time. Faith, my younger one still sleeps in her sister's room. Now that Grace is a teenager, she prefers to have more privacy, but can't seem to kick her younger sis out. They have been sleeping in each other's room forever. It will be very tough for Faith when her sister leaves for college next Fall. I hope she won't move into our room when the time comesShocked

    Marlana, you are aware that our Ms. Chevy is our English teacher right? You left your last paragraph wide open for her! Haha. Enjoy your next few days feeling human before the next boxing match.

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Posts: 10,258

    Yes, I SAW that....Ha! But I think it is great, that in High School, you had that much personality and confidence, Marla!!! I was such a dud in school.... Don't remember much of grade school, Junior High, nor even High School....It just wasn't a fun time of my life.... For me or my Brother.... We didn't get our "wings" until I met DH.... Or I mean he WOULD be...

    But growing up was just not good.... not nowhere, not no-how! So that's why I have to have fun now! I find happiness within my own family.... and my friends, and the things I love to do..... I really am fortunate..... Wouldn't give a plugged-nickle for my childhood years again......

    That Quiche looks soooooooo good! Both of them! Who did that? Jazzy? And did you see how clean her stove is! She's such a brat!

    Spookie..... Hahhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaah! YES, we had perfect weather today! I LOVE the "cool" misty weather! Supposed to be like this all week.... Don't tell your DD that.... And someone ought to spank those kids! What a bunch of wild Indians! Hope they make them do a lot of community service.... SEPARATELY! Damn kids!

    Loverly..... My two Daughters didn't really get along THAT well until they grew up! Now they are soooooo close! Even living in different States, those two always watch out for each other.... I'm very proud of that.... I am so excited for Sheri to get here tomorrow..... THEN I can relax! We got the back out-door carpeting down..... Sure made it look nice out there! Gotta get busy now.... cleaning the bathroom....

    Laters Gators!

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Posts: 8,178

    So Lover, you have a wedding coming up here! I feel the need for a lunch meet up if you are coming and have time!!

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Posts: 15,889

    Spookie, I made it with only a small sight seeing detour. Veered left instead of right on the Selmon. Ended up at the docks. Turned around and had to find a different way. Kept making lefts, towards the downtown buildings. Worked. Ran into Kennedy Blvd and knew what to do from there. I was right, Steve was stressed b/c of their dog. He met me at the house and did the --meet and greet. Dogs were fine. I have no cell and they're is no land line. But obviously I got connected. Steve's doing map quest from his house to Tampa International Airport. House to Toojay's in case you want me to pick you up and then go to TIA. And the TIA to TooJay's.  I forgot they had a cat. Shats has never been close to a cat. I'm guessing it won't appear. So, not a particular worry. They're chicken's and peacocks next door too.

    Let me know if you want me to pick you up at TooJay's. We can have some laughs navigating the few miles to TIA. I'd pick you up @ 10am.

    Blondie All set on this end. Hope your tummy has stopped misbehaving. Can't wait to see you.