Just stopping in to say Hello on this long weekend.  I hope you are enjoying it.   It has been jam packed full of fun outings here from my son’s big birthday party with his classmates today and the impromptu tag sale that we stumbled upon yesterday.  The tag sale!   So let me tell you a little about our day yesterday…. . 🙂

We had heard about a farm on the foothills of the Blueridge Mountains with a great big corn maze, and decided to take the kids yesterday.  The weather was around 80 and just perfect.  Well, you  know me, I decided to check and see if there were any antiques stops along the way.  Purcellville….now that sounded like a town with a quaint mainstreet and maybe an antiques shop or two.  Boy was I right!  As we drove in to town we noticed crowds walking everywhere and big signs saying, “Community Tag Sale”!  We hit the jack pot.   As it turns out, this was the town’s 8th annual tag sale and the entire town is turned in to one great big flea market, drawing thousands of people.  Parking lots, side streets, front yards, everywhere you looked there were tables and bins full of potential treasures.  This was tag sale heaven!

The streets were lined with turn-of-the-century homes and businesses from yesteryear.

We ended up staying ALL day, enjoying a picnic on a church lawn and getting to know many of the church members as we spent a good part of the afternoon at their sale.  We met a man who was from the first graduating class of McLean High School (1955) – the high school down the street from where we are building our house.  And while at the church, would you believe, my husband ran in to the Commanding Officer of his very first ship as a Navy Ensign.  Sadly, the USS Portland (LSD-37) was decommissioned in 2003 and was later sunk off the coast of Virginia in a target exercise.

Bethany United Methodist Church....what wonderful people we met here!

Never too little to be on the lookout!

This unusual and incredible Scottie weathervane was priced at over $1,400.00

Well, we never made it to the corn maze (but there’s always tomorrow, we do plan to go Monday), but everyone had fun.  On the drive home I could not pass up the chance to stop in my all-time favorite antiques store, and one that I’ve mentioned among other times here, and here– The {infamous}LUCKETT’S Store!  LUCKily for me, there is a huge playground practically in the parking lot -how convenient! – and while my husband watched the kids, I snuck in all alone to shop!

The Old Lucketts Schoolhouse playground