Traffic on Grandview Blvd. is moving again after a summer long utility upgrade. Life seems back to normal on the street; Water Doctors held their 25th anniversary open house this last weekend, the Eagles Club is hosting a craft fair this weekend in their newly refurbished clubhouse and police are once again watching the speeders. As much as the construction inconvenienced me, I'll miss the walks Sir Fido and I took down the middle of the closed street.
After five days at Brookfield's Civic Plaza, the moving
Moving Wall is moving. The half sized Vietnam Veterans Memorial left today. Fifty-eight thousand names of American men and women, it's something everyone should try to visit at least once when it's again in the area.
I picked up a Waukesha County Cultural Passport (not to mention 7 varieties of apples and 3 gallons of cider) from
Retzer Nature Center so I guess I'm moving now.
Two weeks ago my mom was moving. She gave me a bed. My in-laws moved so I gave them the bed. They had an extra washer and drier so I took the drier. The washer will be heading down to Kentucky where, along with other appliances, will help the needy of a sister parish in Beattyville. (Still looking for the use of a truck to haul the appliances, by the way.)
A family I met Saturday morning had just moved and had no furniture. I mentioned to them that there was decent furniture at the end of their drive. It was the end of the month and whoever was moving obviously couldn't take everything with them. I also mentioned that, because I was volunteering the last day of the St. William Fall Rummage, I may also be able to find them some household goods. After five hours working the rummage sale I stopped back to the family and found they had a new sectional and entertainment center from the curb. It was an amazing transformation. When I met them in the morning we were sitting on the floor, the only furniture a play pen. When I left in the evening, almost no place left to sit on the floor.
The St. William rummage, and other sales like it, provide a good community service. Low prices benefit people who don't have a lot to spend. Donating to the sale benefits people who have too much by helping clean out their basements. Some of the leftovers went to Clothes for Kids, others to the family I met through St. Vincent De Paul. But the majority of the remaining goods went to Goodwill. I just wish that when Goodwill said they'd take a truckload that they would've taken the truckload and not sent it away half full.
