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2010 Garage Sales Week 3 - Summary
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A quick and easy summary, really. What a load of bollocks!
Missing buses as regularly as some others catch them I make it to the first garage sale 1 minute before they open - The Wild Rose United Church, on 1st St NW and 12 Ave....which is OK, as it's not a well attended one, and there are very few people in line.
I get some buttons. And my eagerness to escape and look for greener pastures is matched only by the eagerness of a fingerless volunteer charged with tying up and securing my purchase so everyone can see that I paid...time is passing. There's no time for this.
Moving on, the next garage sale the yearly one for the Mustard Seed on Memorial Drive... a brisk walk down the hill, past the panting joggers coming up the staircase, then on along Memorial...they're still organizing....I'm in luck, there's a jewelry table and they're still unpacking and sorting, a young boy is there trying to buy some cheap tin earrings for his mom on Mother's day but he wants to be certain they're white gold first, the volunteer laughs....
A few broken bits and bobs, Mixed media art pieces to be added to the growing piles of mixed media in the cupboards, an old Oak index file case, $20.00, they're calling it an antique but I know that we'll all soon be abandoning our computers and looking for old oak index index filing cases, ... then home.
Futile attempts at napping.
All in all, I would have been better off sleeping in.
2010 Garage Sales Week 3 - Summary
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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A quick and easy summary, really. What a load of bollocks!
Missing buses as regularly as some others catch them I make it to the first garage sale 1 minute before they open - The Wild Rose United Church, on 1st St NW and 12 Ave....which is OK, as it's not a well attended one, and there are very few people in line.
I get some buttons. And my eagerness to escape and look for greener pastures is matched only by the eagerness of a fingerless volunteer charged with tying up and securing my purchase so everyone can see that I paid...time is passing. There's no time for this.
Moving on, the next garage sale the yearly one for the Mustard Seed on Memorial Drive... a brisk walk down the hill, past the panting joggers coming up the staircase, then on along Memorial...they're still organizing....I'm in luck, there's a jewelry table and they're still unpacking and sorting, a young boy is there trying to buy some cheap tin earrings for his mom on Mother's day but he wants to be certain they're white gold first, the volunteer laughs....
A few broken bits and bobs, Mixed media art pieces to be added to the growing piles of mixed media in the cupboards, an old Oak index file case, $20.00, they're calling it an antique but I know that we'll all soon be abandoning our computers and looking for old oak index index filing cases, ... then home.
Futile attempts at napping.
All in all, I would have been better off sleeping in.
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
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A curious artist, as all artists should be.
Link: Biography here, Gallery Here, short article with a little of both here.
4 hours of unpacking...
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And the new house has reached that in-between stage whereby nothing is getting done.
By which I mean that if I worked steady for 4 hours, unpacked the kids rooms, hung the remaining few pictures on the wall, I'd be done.
Of course there's always the optional "Sort through and organize shit" phase, but that doesn't bear consideration, at least until I'm unpacked.
Tomorrow. Today is garage sale day, 25 minutes and counting, tomorrow possibly I'm child free, I'll finish unpacking then...
And that's how nothing gets done...
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