Forced Out Of Hibernation

I was happily forced out of hibernation today and it felt great! The morning rush went smoothly. No tantrum's. I did run around in circles, literally. So I went to The Country Store which has a nice variety of seeds. Having a few spare minutes, I stopped at this huge garage sale that had all sorts of furniture. It's kind of my weakness I guess. I found this little toy chest, obviously for children. It was in rough shape and would take a bit of elbow grease to get it pretty again. I talked the guy down and got a good price.

Someone beat the hell out of this thing. It took 3 different grains of sandpaper to get most of these dings out, leaving just enough to give it the look I wanted. It was missing a handle from the side so I tossed the other one, and will look out for the perfect handles to replace them.
It had a giant sports sticker on the top, so I slabbed a bit of mayo on it and let it sit for about 30 minutes while I worked on the rest of the chest.
In the nude. I could paint this, I could stain it. Haven't made up my mind yet. It sure is nice wood though. I want to keep the original hardware if possible, although I wouldn't mind putting on new ones. I bought this for Isabel, now they each have old toy chests.
Cat in box. He says hello.

So the rest of the day was spent pulling the girls in the wagon, trimming my grapes, cleaning our rain water barrel out, and other little yard tasks. All four of us had fun, it was so carefree. A long warm bath and warm jammies and I'm gonna call it a day.