Ring of Fire

hmmmm....listened to Roseanne Cash all morning..........delightful.

a not so manic monday

We didn't do much ebaying this weekend--the weather was bellisimo!!!! I love this time of year when we don't have to worry about skeeters and flies coming in the open sliding glass door. We spring cleaned the deck, patio, and garage--went to one measly yard sale. Also stopped by the used book store and picked up a few Nona Hengen softcover books from the $1 bargain shelf. I had never heard of her--but in one of the books was a newspaper clippping. She is a localish author who lives in Spangle in the family farmhouse. The illustrations are wonderful and the more I looked up about her the more I realized I've seen a couple of her books from time to time. One of the ones I picked up is selling for 51 smackaroos on Amazon. I'm not very ready to part with it yet, I am going to spend a Sunday afternooon reading through the babies in the very near future.

North of Forty

Yard saled Satiday--the first one was a sad little affair, I bought a microfiber duster for .75 to be perlite. I ended with a couple of bangs--an estate sale that I thought I was late getting to and a moving sale. Some where in the middle I picked up a couple of small civil war portraits in small wooden cases and a presciption box from a Cashmere, Wa pharmacy dated in 1910 for some worming medication for someone named Parker.

The pink bike was taken out for an inaugural ride. Whee!

Easter Sunday Movie

Nottinghill-sigh, a movie we never tire of in this house.

Pink Bike & Thrifting

Well I braved the cold and went to a couple of early morning sales yestiday. The wind was blowing so hard it tore my car door out of my  hand. At the first sale a friendly dog came out to say hello--she was a sweetheart. I bought a coca cola polar bear cookie jar and some faux fiesta ware and then jumped back in the car and turned the heater up full blast. The second sale was held by a small group of college students who were delighted (as in look at the sweet old lady, isn't she cute) when I bought a "Wiley" glass. It's a large oversize drink glass you can take to one of the local watering holes on a certain night and get mixed drinks for cheap--I am really on the lookout of for one of the old style ones from back in day 19 aught 90 or so for myself but decided to get one and put it up on fleabay for kicks. At the same sale I bought an obnoxiously colored pink bike--I have been looking for a cruiser style bike for a long time. I took it straight down to the bike shop in town for a lube, oil, filter. "This bike has been painted pink" the bike shop service dude declared, much in the style of a CSI. "Yes, I know, thank you sir, please don't rain on my parade", thought I as I spelled the word pickle for him (why do they need my email addy anyway?).

In the afternoon we went thrifting over in Moscow. We ran across a local celebrity in the Antique Mall--Mary Jane Butters of Mary Jane's farm.  She's very beautiful and very petite looking IRL. DH was on  the hunt so didn't notice her. We bought a few things-something for me for my b-day and some small knick knacks to sell. Then on to the Hope Thrift Center and the Good Swill. We didn't buy a lot, we were just reconning-DH picked up something at the Antique Mall and turned it over to find a Good Will price tag still on the bottom. At the HTC I found a bunch of Paste Magazine sampler CD's and few books. We topped off the afternoon by going to dinner at Winger's so we could watch Duke v WV.

The Outlook for Tomorrow is Very Bleak

Eek, I'm searching craigslist and the free local online ads and tomorrow's sales don't look very promising. There are a couple of very nice sales posted for NEXT WEEK (a pox on those teases.) So I will probably concentrate on listing tomorrow...I'm selling some rodeo gear for my brother which I'm pretty excited about. One of the items is a pair of chaps he made...wonderful fringe and hand tooled leather accents--they are just yummy too look at.  I also want to get some stuff up on Etsy, I have a tone of craft and vintage items that need a new home.

We turned off the heat (it being April 1st and all) and it's verra cold--the cats came tearing in without any of the usual necessary coaxing--there's a roaring hot fire going now but my feet don't seem to be getting the message. Inland Power sent us a complimentary box of energy saver light bulbs, sweet!