Sometimes 1 Person Makes it All Worthwhile

Being an eBay seller nowadays is a challenge in many ways. With very few exceptions all our buyers are good people and I cherish each and every one of them and their business.

eBay likes to say that all people are generally good. And I guess that is true. It is the bad ones we always hear about and that on rare occasions causes, me as a seller, angst.

Just like Susan Boyd came into our lives, like a meteor, so do the buyers who makes me smile and make me love, what I do even more. When we work at home with little or no interaction with the outside world (other than through the computer) just a few words in an email or feedback, a ho-hum day, can be turned round.

Let me explain - We sold a white Scarf with bright colored Polka Dots on it. http://tinyurl.com/csq7cu The gal who bought it wrote right away and said how happy she was to have found it because she is a clown and will wear it to help people smile. Now that is enough to make me warm all over.

But after she got her package she leaves us this Feedback - BEAUTIFUL SCARVES~GREAT SELLER "HERBS CRAFTS & GREAT GIFTS" THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

We work very hard to give a great buying experience to all our buyers and they have rewarded us with not only with great feedback but right now we have 5.0 stars in all categories.

This gal added Great to our name. Talk about paying it forward. With a short email and creative feedback this gal has spread good humor that I hope will make you feel good too.

And I guess that is what being a clown is all about!! Congratulations to our buyer - she is accomplishing her goal. Thank you so much!!!

Day 2 RV Travels 2/5/09

Us in the field with the slide out out.

After a great nights sleep we worked some more in getting settled in. Gene's son and wife brought us breakfast/lunch of homemade breakfast burritos wrapped in homemade tortillas. Very yummy - Gene was in 7th heaven eating the food he grew up with.

After we ate it was time to get to busy filling the fresh water tank and hooking up the Direct TV receiver. After several tries Daniel (son) went up onto the roof and see why the satellite dish was not turning. There was no way to check it before we left and Gene was definitely not climbing up there for any reason.

It is stuck so we will have to get it fixed. More than one person has recommended we get a tripod with the dish on it that stands on the ground. We thought it was duplicating what we already have and wanted to try it first. When we get to Florida we will contact Direct TV and have them help us get all set up.

In the meantime we have a very good analog antenna and it will work just fine until we get the other squared away.

DIL - Eileen - and I went grocery shopping and went home to fix dinner. Frito pies with red chile and beans and hot dogs. And a great dessert - vanilla wafers. instant banana cream pudding and bananas layered in a dish. Chilled and just scooped out. No real recipe. Eileen is an excellent cook.

The meat for the chile and beans was venison. The family are big hunters and have a freezers full of antelope, elk and deer. Even Eileen's 9 year old nephew shot both an antelope and deer this past hunting season.

We spent the evening visiting with the family including Genes daughter and grandson and Eileen's mother. We came out to the RV and the gals went crazy looking at and choosing the woven Peruvian earrings we have listed on eBay. They have a friend who is going though chemo and wanted some of our scarves, which are just the right size to cover her head. They took Pink Ribbon scarves in 3 different background colors and a pair of pink ribbon shoelaces.

We went to bed undecided which way we were going to continue east. Back up to Albuquerque and then east on I-40 or south on I-25 to Las Cruces NM where it turns into I-10. The decision was left for the morning when we could really see the 5 day weather reports.