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For the last five years, fishermen and divers on the Musi River near Palembang (on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia) have been bringing up gold rings, jewelry, seals, encrusted Buddhas and other treasures, leading Archeologists to suspect they may have discovered the "Lost Island of Gold", or the Kingdom of Srivijaya.
Via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/22/have-sumatran-fishing-crews-found-the-fabled-island-of-gold
or the Daily Mail (Worse Journalism, Better Pictures): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10122973/Lost-Island-Gold-Sumatran-fishermen.html
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Spotted on the way home from the Hospital visiting Stormy, one of many "Free Piles" that eventually just decay and become rubbish. I always take a peek - everything from picture frames, china, cutlery, children's books, lamps, never anything I want or need.
This one is different. It has a couple of cool chairs, that if I weren't moving to parts unknown in a month I might consider. So I check the boxes and it's a complete score.
#1, a man-skirt - looks to be homemade, made out of leather and raccoon hide, tail hanging down.
#2, a full calf (?) skin, tanned & cured.
Digression. I'm halfway towards my Q'ANON Shaman outfit for Halloween, but where's the goddamned rave?
#3 - a hatchet. New, with cover.
#4 - Dashcam, still in box, brand new.
Like, WTF, best free pile EVER!!!!
I would have looked harder but my hands were full....
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Meanwhile, enjoying this time off from work, not "Time Off" per se, but reasonable schedule, and making use of the reasonable time off to search for all the treasures I missed this summer. With little success.
Tuesday, the long drive to Cranbrook, there are a few thrift shops there worth perusing, but no great finds, the Salvation Army - ridiculously priced, broken and unstrung violins priced at $150 apiece, less for a working one at a pawn shop, other junk I didn't need and wouldn't have paid 10 cents on the dollar for, the junk shop in Yahk closed, the thrift shops in Creston, while full, had nothing I needed or wanted, and so the day was a bust. And I thought, as I was driving, that I should just stay home, read a book, and then chastised myself for my lack of ambition, but - really, I would have been better off at home reading that book....
This weekend, down to Castlegar, Rossland, nada.
Well, not entirely Nada. A giant costume horses head - plush, like would be worn by a furry or a mascot. Perfect for You-Know-Who, who has a birthday coming. On that note today, a spread of unadvertised garage sales, a few junktiques, one garage sale with a truly disturbing quantity of barbie dolls and generic 50's, 60's plastic dolls, eye-blinkers every one of them, and so I picked one up, brunette, 2 1/2 feet tall, perfect for Ken's birthday - the idea is coming together in my head - this year, a mixed-media performance art dance - little leather pony girl on hobby-horse watching me dance and prance in the nude around her wearing my horses head, all for Ken.
He will appreciate it. And I haven't given way all the details, so be prepared for the video that will immortalize this, his fortieth-odd birthday. Meanwhile for the next week or so I gotta live with this disturbing shit fucking up my living room, and trust me, it poisons the subconscious...
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Up early and making the drive - it's the only garage sale this weekend, a promising description and it rewards me well. A Yamaha guitar, excellent condition, with stand, case and guitar books. $50.00. An antique New Haven Gingerbread Mantle Clock, $40, approx. 115, 120 years old. I have yet to see if it's working, it doesn't matter, it's a beautiful thing and I'd be happy to scavenge the parts. Various other trifles, art supplies, mixed media, a buckskin fringed coat, vintage, well loved, - $10.00 - passed on to the daughter (it suits her, and the Kootenay Life).
And this: 
Now it's largely intact, most specimens in their proper place - I could use something similar, but - I'm building my own. So this is something I give to Chris at work, with the caveat that he turn over the cache of Rolexes and Omega's his mother was supposed to find at an Estate Sale in Ottawa.
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Garage sales, over the weekend, a few things. Pliers, tools, a tool-box, a couple of old gauges (to be used in mixed media), and a box of old keys:
Mailbox keys, bike-lock keys, safety-deposit box keys, clock keys, cutlery drawer keys, padlock keys, skeleton keys, one (lower right) fashioned from a nail, some with interesting decorative features. Not as cool as the keys I once-upon-a-time picked up in the UK, but cool nonetheless. Now to get crafting...
