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Happy Hour
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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It's happy hour in Nelson, I've been a meaning to go for some several months now....
Buck-a-shuck Oysters. Half price appetizers and soups. $5.00 highballs, wine, beer and Caesars.
I've been waiting for this my entire life....
The Patio, overlooking the lake.
2 dozen oysters, the layer dip, the Tuna Stack...
The oysters, a bit mild, but excellent. The Caesars, well, it's got alcohol, doesn't it?
The layer dip, good, cheesy, the tuna, not so, frozen, not ideal.
I'd applied here, resting-bitch-face manager had pretended well, not well enough, I'm not working here but I'm glad, this is a far better hangout than it would be a workplace. I gotta plan to spend some night in town and come here and do some real damage when I don't have to drive...
Evicted
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Having to pack up my shit, get out of the guest-house for a few days, there's visitors, my shit, my countless garage sale finds, they're everywhere...
I try to talk her out of it..."You don't want them to get too cozy or they'll want to stay on here...". She just laughs, she gets it, I've become rather transparently a pest, the uninvited guest who's stayed on just a bit too long, summer here will be busy, there will be lots of guests visiting, time to get a place. Damn. Well, not damn, it's time as well for me to start getting settled, almost 3 months already, and my interests will come along, for the moment I've gotten a little too comfortable in temporary housing, time now to pack up my shit and get going, find a place of my own, she's been more than generous and try as I might to summon up my mock indignation at being displaced I know I haven't got a leg to stand on...
"Free Man on the Land!!" I shout, I got this from an old roomate, he knew the rules..."I'm a free-man on the land!!!" but it's not working, I got 2 days, clean it all up, get out. Fuck.
Garage Sales - June 10, 2017
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Starting in Nelson, church sale, I'm about 5 minutes late. Too late, as it would turn out:
A pair of beautiful antique candlesticks, early Georgian, but in somebody elses pile of stuff. Damn Damn Damn. I need another set of Candlesticks like I need a hole in the head, but it's not my nature to pass them by...
A good deal on a kitschy antique porcelain clock. I think it's a good deal, in any event my pockets weren't so deep, I left it.
"The Seven Storey Mountain", by Thomas Merton, I picked it up. 50 cents.
And a beautiful inlaid music box, made in Italy. I had to pick this up, I remember buying one for a girlfriend in the early 80's, cost a fortune, well over $100 when $100 was a proper sum of money, I'm not leaving it here...
With Key!!
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From here, a couple of other garage sales, nothing of interest. Then the road home, there were a couple of people putting out signs on the drive in...
And this is where I score: A big barn, filled with miscellaneous rubbish, everything, a collector...
3 vintage cameras, excellent condition, with flash bulbs and a leather case for the Zeiss...
$5.00 each. Surprisingly they're not worth a lot more than that, but for aesthetics and mixed media possibilities they're priceless. After some internal debating I pick them up, there's lots more equipment, lenses and such, but I'm on the first tour of the room. I'm being followed, I don't know it, but walking round the barn - a Hamilton 8 Day instrumentation clock, pair of vintage snowshoes, pick up, admire, by the time I make my second pass they're gone...
And:
Uranium pressed glass swan. Under UV Light:
I'm glad I held on to the Cameras, and given that I'm 90 minutes or so late I wonder what I missed - I definitely chose my garage sales in the wrong order...
Excellent quality bikers wallet, with chain - perfect for waitering. I have similar in Calgary, better even, but the finding of them in the locker is it's own private Idaho...
Another bunch of sales in the trailer park by Balfour, nothing of interest.
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Sunday, up, return to the sale - if the prices have dropped I'll clean up on the camera lenses - perfect for mixed media. Most of them are sold, but they've laid out a few new treasures for me:
Plumb bob and Camera lens, the only one remaining, they were too good to leave, somebody scooped me on my indecision. Fair enough.
Antique/Vintage #4 Redwing Pot. Great for plants...
Fly fishing rod. I'll be needing this.
And a chop-saw, $10, at another sale in Balfour, I tried to dicker them down, "Make us an offer" they said, but there's no reasonable offer you can make on a chop saw that isn't double or triple the price they were selling it at...
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Monday, in town for happy hour, pop into a couple of thrift shops. And I find this:
A Pelikan Drafting set, perfect. Not a deal, market price, but a unique thing and I can't wait to try it out...
All in all, an excellent weekend's garage sales...
Painting With Joan
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Your daily dose of WTF, in case you haven't had enough with Trump and all...
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They actually have a few amusing videos.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfkuzxyYpxTs8tNz2YFjvzg
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