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L'Inconnue de la Seine
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An image from the Wiki of the same name, the Edwardian ideal of beauty as modeled upon the face of a drowned unknown woman recovered from the Seine.
2,000 Year old Gold & Silver Hoard in Israel
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Given the history of the place, I'd expect there to be a lot more.
AFK
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Just a note. If you've been following you know I'll be heading off soon to parts unknown. Before I go I'll be removing the blog - don't want those searching for my obituary to come across it and the less than favorable impressions of my working life.
So - soon, the blog will disappear. Not that it's been particularly maintained or kept up, but the disregarded thoughts will be filed with pen and paper to be edited and possibly posted later.
Week 2 - Garage Sales - 2012
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Week 1 - in the end, a bust, the Good Samaritan Rummage Sale (an hour and a half in line) good only for a handful of neckties, I needed, wanted nothing else.
No watches, jewelry, other treasures, and the searching wore thin at 40 minutes, grew claustrophobic, had to leave.
From here to St. Lukes, but at 9:50 they were already heavily picked. Nothing worth having.
Week 2
Blizzarding outside. A few on my list, Holy Name Church up by my old house, Scarboro Church, another in the deep south.
Holy name, half an hour early, one of the first few through the door. I'm not with it, out of practice, notice others with my finds, dealer with Ukelele, dealer with painted Jesus on Ostrich Egg. I find a china cup, sleeping bags, (my first dash at the moment camping gear), nothing I really want or need.
2nd sale, Scarboro, a misprint on Kijiji apparently, there is no sale here today. It's not just me, I run into others showing up as confused as I. Perhaps the Hillhurst Dealers running interference?
Then the thrift shop, pair of antique candlesticks, a toonie. The find of the day, and the first pair of antique candlesticks in a long time.
That's the garage saling the past two weeks. Had I known I would have slept in.
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