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Installation at Frog Peak Cafe
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Spotted this at Frog Peak Café, an art installation that works like a geocache - take a treasure, leave a treasure...
Hmmm. Another potential repository for Stormy Texas's abundant gifts...
Kootenay Landlords
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And, after the long day of waiting and the face to face facebook interview, she wanted me to drive up and look at the place again in morning.
Which I do.
Her son, he has no idea I'm coming, why I'm there, so I let him talk to her for a few minutes on the phone. I can hear his frustration, even to him she's a nightmare, finally he uses the "my phone is dead" excuse and bails on the call. Now she's calling me. I've brought the agreement? Yes...Now she just wants to add some caveats...that I won't smoke indoors (fine), that I'll mow the grass (it's coming into winter!!), sure, and so I'll shovel the snow as well, and I'll pay the utilities for the whole house just in case she can't find tenants for upstairs...
The price listed was $850, add in the utilities - , now $1300-$1400. Hmmmm.
But she's not done.
If she can't find upstairs tenants I can be her air b-n-b landlord, renting out the place upstairs, showing it, tidying it up afterwards...
...Oh, and did I want her to leave the furniture in the basement? And how much extra am I willing to pay for it?
I don't, furniture is cheap, I have my own.
....Oh, well, then, she'll need a deposit to pay the tradespeople to take it out of the suite, - and, of course, I'll have to pay storage on it as well...
It's fucking crazy, these Kootenay landlords, and somehow you're knowingly making a deal with the devil and they always find a way to make it worse...
I leave, I get a bunch of texts, a tear-felt apology left on my voicemail, she shouldn't have asked me not to smoke in the apartment...
Geodetic Benchmark
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Found while out prospecting, a Benchmark, of no value but curious...
Unboxing Stormy October 2020
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SO, having found at the abandoned mine the perfect spot to unbox and share the many treasures of Stormy Texas, I made a 40 minute video, sooo many treasures dug out from the corners of my jeep.
And, having filmed the video - "in the can", as they say, I promptly deleted it because my Google Account was full, and forgot that sync was on so it got deleted from my phone as well.
!@$%^(@*#$&!
Anyways. Here a brief recap of the countless treasures:
The doll that he and Marilyn made, a cloth doll that when you tipped it the skirt falls and reveals another doll underneath. No, they weren't twins, and the candlewax bazooms were something else. Really. I left it at the mine site to disturb some other explorer. Various containers, some food, 2 dozen books, on "drawing the ballet" to some vintage mystery book about a Dame from the 40's who needed a private eye. That was supposed to be for you, Nola. I read the back out loud. Marilyn's ring, which proved to be a gold signet ring (**gold** - looks just like gold) with an anchor and chain motif. Kinda what the old Italian guy might wear. And abundant art.
On free pile canvases, because you wouldn't want to use the nice new canvas that I bought for you.
Painting on the inside of a hardcover book.
Now, looking at this art I got to thinking, this landfill/mine, what a perfect spot for a Stormy Texas Art show, mark it with balloons on the highway, guide traffic up the roads to this "installation",
Back of canvas, often far more interesting than the front...
The front of the canvas.
The canvases. A "self portrait" a-la Van Gogh on a plastic-wood serving tray, with explanatory note, that's where all my oil paint went...
Don't know if I have i right side up. Don't think that it matters. Some times I think he's trolling me...
Anyways, there was this, and easily a hundred plus scrolls, 3 hours of unwrapping and re-rolling, some masterpieces (really!), Roman Galleons of Caesar invading England (he liked that book), one of Merlin raising the standing stones (Stonehenge), and 90-odd others on the usual themes.
Unpacked, sorted, repacked, we have to get this guy a museum...
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