The wet and wacky world of yard sales

Here are the promised yard sale photos. This happy, sunny picture is what we'll call the before photo. Everything was set up and ready for the big sale by 9am
when the remnants (or the still raging tropical depression) of Hurricane Me came roaring in. We had to scurry around grandpa's huge front yard and try to get everything covered in plastic so that it wasn't ruined. Unfortunately, some of the things were lost to the monsoon- like rain and crazy wind. Here we will enter into the discussion what will be known as the after photo. Note the gray, gloomy sky, the plastic covered
tables, and the random stuffed animals strewn around
the yard. That rain caused so many issues. The clotheslines strung between the tress decided to stretch when wet and then break under the weight of the soaked clothes. We (actually my aunt and grandfather) spent several hours drying all the clothes in the dryer. That stupid clothesline broke probably ten times over the next few days. All the stuffed animals got drenched (and there were soooo many) and created quite a bit of amusement later on. There was one bear that probably weighed close to 40 pounds and after three days had not yet dried out. I took a bunch of photos of the animals, but this is one of my favorites:
I love the water dripping off this sweet little bear. Trust me when I say that despite his appearance, he fared better than most of the others. Some of them were unsalvageable. Most of them ended up in the trash. The ones all over the yard in the picture above suffered a worse fate than the trash. They were dismembered by my puppy who apparently finds water- logged bears to be a tasty treat. And, after he finished with the bears, he graduated to undergarments. A purple Victoria Secret bra, to be exact (size 34DD for those that care), that I outgrew years ago and made it's way into one of the boxes. That puppy carried it around, chewed on it, and tossed it into the air for days. It was pretty funny. We would pick it up out of the yard and take it back to the box. But he always found it and didn't bother any of the others. Guess there's no doubt that he's male is there? I mean, it was the biggest one in the box...