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Found, at Value Village, a small trove of books to read. Penguin editions, possibly a classics major or some such cleaning up his shelf.
Titles include: Orkneyinga Saga, The Mabinogion, NJal's Saga, The History of Alexander, Two Years Before the Mast, and the Communist Manifesto.
...From which you should gather a fair idea of my reading tastes. Well prepared for a long winter without reliable internet (or even necessary, as it wastes more time that it answers questions, for sure, for sure...). Not that I needed more books, I've easily a hundred to read, but I couldn't leave these, with luck by spring I'll have read them all...
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A find day of thrifting...I sold the phone for $80.00, reinvested the profits back into...
The first few finds, a copy of "The Land of 12-Food Davis" by J.G. MacGregor, A History of the Peace River Country. Interesting. I could use some light reading...
an old Pyrex jar. Now to fill it with brains or some such...
Perfect, for a twonie, a chance to make my anatomical correction of Jar-Jar Binks...and when done, to leave it on someone's lawn. Now to figure who's lawn to leave it on, who would appreciate it and not call the police...
And finally these two:
crescent glasses, antique, gold rims, my prescription...
And this:
The lining says it all, vintage "Pioneer" leather coat made in Albuquerque New Mexico...
Less of a coat than a career choice, this coat screams "I LIKE TO PARTY", I'm gonna change my name to "Boone" and travel the old west singing songs about raccoons and outlaws...
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Found by a Filipino fisherman and kept for good luck, after his shack burned down it was valued by an official at $100 Million Dollars. Tentatively.
Read More Here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37167179
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This morning, a few garage sales, nothing too promising. I'm looking for a going away gift for the Italian Waiter. Nada...
But I find a pair of Antique Candlesticks, (I know, I know...what am I going to do with them all?), a cheap canvas messenger bag to replace the one that was stolen from the jeep (and still no word from Calgary's Finest, not holding my breath), and .... (hold your breath):
Look close...
Not a bad morning, I'd always wanted to have one of these to put on my girlfriends, wrist, now, without a girlfriend, I have a Fake Cartier.
The daughter, we'll see if she has an appreciation for the imitation of finer things, she's a few significant dates coming up...
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- Hits: 1998
The repatriation of Chinese Antiquities has inflated prices very favorably...
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chinese-vase-auction-doorstop_us_57777e21e4b09b4c43c0aa5f
Always it's a vase, and more importantly, it's recognizing what you have...