Yesterday I attended the estate sale at my Uncle Marlan's house. Marlan passed away last month. His daughter, Elizabeth, is tending to the details of disposing of her father's things and closing up the house. Big job! Marlan's friend, Ron McGale, is helping in the process. So I went over for the first day of the big estate sale. Thought I might be needed, but Liz and Ron had things well in hand. Lots of people. Lots of sales. I was mostly sitting and visiting with folks as they came in. Carmello, Marlan's friend and roommate, had a yard sale going in the garage at the same time. It's all very well organized.
The biggest sale of the day was a pencil sketch by an artist named Gorman, 1960's, that sold for $700. The biggest surprise of the day was the big yellow painting in the dining room. Liz said that when Marlan bought it from a catalogue, he didn't notice the size listed -- 54" by 90"! That makes it 7½ feet tall! So Liz got out the catalogue for me. The painting had been listed at $8500 when it was in a gallery show in Salt Lake City. I looked at the catalogue and discovered that the artist is one Jean Lambert! Oh my!! That's our cousin! They even have Jeannie's photo and an essay where she talks about that painting. No wonder Marlan has it - he bought it from his niece!
The estate sale continues today and Saturday. Then whatever is left will go to Carmello's yard sale inventory, to the church for its jumble sale, some clothing to Mexico and maybe some items donated to Deseret Industries or Goodwill.
Meanwhile, not much in the way of other news. I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand on Wednesday. It takes all day to get ready for the surgery, go to the surgery center, sign in, answer lots of questioms, wait around, answer more questions, etc. But the surgery itself only takes about six minutes! I heard them say we were starting at 16:48, and I was in recovery and talking to the nurse at 16:58! All that preparation, and it's over in ten minutes! Now my hand is bandaged and it is inconvenient. It stayed numb all night and into the next day, and I was worried about that. Later I found out that that is normal, as they put some sort of a block in there so you don't have pain.
We had dinner Monday with Liz and Richard. Olive Garden. Mother is getting a perm today. Primary elections coming on Tuesday. We had rain twice already this week. Lots of thunder and lightning! We thought it was the Fourth of July fireworks, but much bigger and louder!
That's my report for now. I welcome comments and suggestions from any of you blog readers. Please send all comments and questions along to us.
Love,
Julianne
