Sunday, July 05, 2009
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RANDOM 341 OBJECT
Vintage METAL ART SCULPTURE by LeBlanc Gulf SHRIMP BOAT
sold for $78+
Vintage METAL ART SCULPTURE by LeBlanc Gulf SHRIMP BOAT
sold for $78+
I just can’t imagine how many hours it must have taken to create this metal shrimp boat with all its deck equipment, nets, rigging, gaffs, life preservers, barrels, chum buckets and ropes (lines). The creator was not only a talented sculptor; he also had to study shrimping. I’m betting he learned a lot just in research. After all, we sometimes take the little things for granted. (Personally, I don’t. I give the little things a lot of thought. Take, for instance, the time I spend thinking about my all-time personal hero.)
Oops! I guess we’d better talk about the piece of art first. We’ll get to my hero worship in a jiffy. Is it fine art? Well, of course not, but it's lots of fun and someone you know would love it. If you got to know yourself a little better, you may even love it yourself.
The metal takes a magnet, but the surface is worked up to look for all the world like brass and copper. You’ll see a few pieces that look like turned wood. That’s because they are. The base is a 11 ½” by 9 ½” slab of burl cut a full 2 ¼” think, and it’s a beauty.
The shrimper itself is a foot long and it stands a whopping 26” tall.
Amazing detail!
I’m reminded of those “little things” almost daily, and I’ll bet you would be as well if you just paused to think. When your valet or butler brings a little snack out to you while you’re in your solarium shaping and contemplating one of your Bonsai trees, do you ever think of the rugged Gulf Coast shrimpers who risked their lives to bring you shrimp for that scampi. How many countless seamen have lost their lives so we can have our sashimi? Probably the hardiest of all are the men and women who give us crabs.
Just LOOK at all that deck equipment! That rugged life filled with hardship is what first got me to thinking about my all-time hero – a man whose life was filled with hard work even though his own personal indiscretions nearly destroyed his life at one time in his youth. Actually, it was basically caused by war in Southeast Asia, but that’s not a real excuse for years of hedonism at the level he maintained.
Sorry. I got off track there for a second. The piece is signed “LeBlanc.”
Anyhow . . . after years of self abuse and the alienation of almost all his friends, this hero of mine reached down deep in his own soul, recovered and eventually his name became practically a household word.
Isn’t that a beautiful piece of wood?
I’m sure I’ve already given it away. You’ve probably already guessed the name of my personal hero – a role model really.
He did many things, one of which was helping a man with a learning disability build a thriving business in spite of his own physical pain.
I’m speaking, of course, of Lieutenant Dan.
Look at all those harpoons and hooks and other stuff I’ve never seen before.
If you don’t appreciate the efforts of shrimpers, you’ve probably never had a fishbone stuck in your throat.
So I guess that's all I have to say about that.
GOOD LUCK
DAN IS NOT INCLUDED. I sorta collect images of him.
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
st joseph byzantine church, cleveland. ghandiavelli
SUNDAY LOL CHERCH BLOGGING
all fayth iz welcum
thaddeus catherdral oshin zakarian from TWAN
DIS IZ TEH LOL OLD TESTMENT REEDING
Exsoduss nyn, vursz 13-33
Da Sevenths Plaig: Hael
13 Ceiling Cat seys 2 Moses "Tell Pharorah tht he beta let dem ppl go"14 or dis time im gonna send dis plaig on every1 even da servents n even ppl ova in china n canada n ever wher n da hole word so tht u no i am a big deel15 I coulda shoulda woulda bust ya b416 but I wantz u ppl 2 no my name17 U are gonna pay 4 dis Pharoah!!18 Dis time 2moro its gonna be such bad hael19 U hide ur animulz or they b struck dwn by da big rocks
20 Pharoah puts all da animables in hiz howse21 But whoeva didnt listen 2 Ceiling Cat left der slaves n animulz in da fields
22 Ceiling cat told Moses to put his hans up23 An den Moses put his hans up24 An hael came down25 Da hael smushd a few peepohl n animulz26 But Ceiling Cat made Israel safe
27 Da Pharorah got Moses n said 'ok i have doned a big invisable error, Ceiling Cat is rite.28 Plead wit da Ceiling Cat, im gonna let every1 go now
29 Moses seys soon as i leave dis city there aint be no more thunder n hael kai?30 U need b scardy o Ceiling Cat!! mkai?
31 Now da barley b dead, no gonna makes beer32 Wheat OK
33 Moses left da city an da hael stopped34 When Pharorah sawed it stop he made anotha invisble error35 So he sed 'wait a min, ur d00dz no goin nowhere'
Exsoduss nyn, vursz 13-33
Da Sevenths Plaig: Hael
13 Ceiling Cat seys 2 Moses "Tell Pharorah tht he beta let dem ppl go"14 or dis time im gonna send dis plaig on every1 even da servents n even ppl ova in china n canada n ever wher n da hole word so tht u no i am a big deel15 I coulda shoulda woulda bust ya b416 but I wantz u ppl 2 no my name17 U are gonna pay 4 dis Pharoah!!18 Dis time 2moro its gonna be such bad hael19 U hide ur animulz or they b struck dwn by da big rocks
20 Pharoah puts all da animables in hiz howse21 But whoeva didnt listen 2 Ceiling Cat left der slaves n animulz in da fields
22 Ceiling cat told Moses to put his hans up23 An den Moses put his hans up24 An hael came down25 Da hael smushd a few peepohl n animulz26 But Ceiling Cat made Israel safe
27 Da Pharorah got Moses n said 'ok i have doned a big invisable error, Ceiling Cat is rite.28 Plead wit da Ceiling Cat, im gonna let every1 go now
29 Moses seys soon as i leave dis city there aint be no more thunder n hael kai?30 U need b scardy o Ceiling Cat!! mkai?
31 Now da barley b dead, no gonna makes beer32 Wheat OK
33 Moses left da city an da hael stopped34 When Pharorah sawed it stop he made anotha invisble error35 So he sed 'wait a min, ur d00dz no goin nowhere'
DIS IZ TEH NU TESTMENT REEDING
EFFeezhunz syx vursz 1-4
Tiny Kittns nd Parenz
1 Tiny kittns, Ceiling Cat say yu shud lisn 2 yur parenz.2 "Lisn 2 teh mom nd dad kittehs."3 If yu do, yu will haev long laif nd it will be gud.
4 2 teh Dad kittehs: no maek teh tiny kittns mad by bein unfair. Be fair like Ceiling Cat.
EFFeezhunz syx vursz 1-4
Tiny Kittns nd Parenz
1 Tiny kittns, Ceiling Cat say yu shud lisn 2 yur parenz.2 "Lisn 2 teh mom nd dad kittehs."3 If yu do, yu will haev long laif nd it will be gud.
4 2 teh Dad kittehs: no maek teh tiny kittns mad by bein unfair. Be fair like Ceiling Cat.
DIS IZ TEH LOL GOSSPELL REEDING
Looke thurteen, vursz 22-30
Teh Skinni Catdor
22 An Jebus travld to Jerusalem an teecheded on teh wae.23 An sumwon sez "Boss, who iz to beeing saeved?"
24 An Jebus sez "U be going n skinni catdor. Cuz wen it rainz, evrybody wants coem insied, but no can. An den hummin lok catdor an all kittehs meow an scrach an sai 'OMGWTF?!!!! HALP!!!!' An hummin sez 'Go wae! U not mai kittehs!'26 An kittehs sai 'But u feeded us! We be ur kittehs now! HALP!'27 But hummin sez 'U bad kittehs! Go wae! Me not no u.'28 Teh kittehs yowl an hiss an cri wen evrybodi but dem all insied an warm an kittehs being owtsied.29 An evrybodi coem frm evrywer to go insied but no bad kittehs.30 An last kitteh git go furst an furst kitteh go last. Srsly."
dis iz teh werds ov teh ceeling cat
tnx b too ceeling cat
go ehn pees an survz teh ceeling cat
Looke thurteen, vursz 22-30
Teh Skinni Catdor
22 An Jebus travld to Jerusalem an teecheded on teh wae.23 An sumwon sez "Boss, who iz to beeing saeved?"
24 An Jebus sez "U be going n skinni catdor. Cuz wen it rainz, evrybody wants coem insied, but no can. An den hummin lok catdor an all kittehs meow an scrach an sai 'OMGWTF?!!!! HALP!!!!' An hummin sez 'Go wae! U not mai kittehs!'26 An kittehs sai 'But u feeded us! We be ur kittehs now! HALP!'27 But hummin sez 'U bad kittehs! Go wae! Me not no u.'28 Teh kittehs yowl an hiss an cri wen evrybodi but dem all insied an warm an kittehs being owtsied.29 An evrybodi coem frm evrywer to go insied but no bad kittehs.30 An last kitteh git go furst an furst kitteh go last. Srsly."
dis iz teh werds ov teh ceeling cat
tnx b too ceeling cat
go ehn pees an survz teh ceeling cat
Saturday, July 04, 2009
RANDOM 341 OBJECTS
i chuckled. just search for item #110408405416. get hooked.
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
tele/radio tower. raskalov vit
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RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
thistle power plant-thehoodwatch
Friday, July 03, 2009
RANDOM POLITICS
been saving this for the right time. and since palin was miffed at us attcking HER with twigg......
RANDOM CLOUD
a bit of zen. bob jaerdorf
RANDOM QUOTE
while in madison i was reading AMERICAN THEOCRACY by kevin phillips. i hit the meat. published in 2007, it addresses what happened in the waning days of bush-
-unexpected federaal budget surplusses replaced them(deficits) in 1998, 1999, and 2000. still buoyed by this, a heady GWB, weeks after taking office in 2001, delivered the state of the union and budget messages proposing to both "pay down an unprecedented part of our national debt" and "double our Medicare budget over the next decade."
ya. of course midass touch did THE OPPOSITE.
-As for rising public consumption and its flip side, nonexistent personal savings, that duality also had excuses. did people really need to save in banks when the values of their assets-stocks and real estate-were climbing like rockets? wise or not(NOT), these were staple explainations.
-Roach, the chief economist at morgan stanley, described the fed chairman as a 'serial bubble blower.' by 2004 others spoke about an echo bubble or a double echo or even referred to greenspan as chairman bubbles. the expansion of debt was huge, indisputable, and a topic of spirited national conversation.
-the fed's policies, however shrewd were not rooted in an abstraction of the national interest but in the pursuit of its statutory mandate to protect the US banking and payments system, now inseparable from from the broadly defined financial-services sector. to this end, the 2001-2003 rate cuts extended a more than two-decade pattern, relentless under greenspan, of slapping large green liquidity band-aids on any financial wound that might get infected.
-in mid 2004, the center for public integrity tabulated the leading lifetime patrons of GWB: the big four were MORGAN STANLEY, MERRILL LYNCH, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, AND MBNA, the credit-card giant. the family's background also blended these same origins and commitment. no presidential clan has been so involved in banking, investments, and money management over so much time.
and georgee STILL managed t kill wall street AZND every business he ever touched.
-"the money that's made from manufacturing stuff is a pittance in comparison to the amount of money made from shuffling money around. 44% of all corporate profits in the US come from the financial sector compared with only 10% from the manufacturing sector." -ray dalio
-if history teaches us anything, it's that this so-called cutting edge finance is an accident waiting to happen, despite claims by the so-called new-macro economists that derivatives are tame and BENIGN and that national debt and deficits are manageable within a new global savings pool in which national boundaries no longer matter so much. even alan greensapn occasionally owned to uncertainty about where speculators and new credit instruments-hedge funds and derivatives in particular-might be taking the country.
looks like it headed straight towards implosion, EH?
-we can only wonder which one would have been most appalled: george washington, who in the early 1770's decried london creditors for their treatment of virginians: benjamin franklin, who deplored debt; john adams, who publicly loathed banks; or thomas jeffersonn, who feared the rise of a financial elite(i am gonna say tom). lincoln, who put labor ahead of capital, would have been equally displeased. likewise the 2 roosevelts, theodore and franklin. even the lessons of greece and rome were relevant, as the men deliberating in 1787 had known from their readings
history matters!
-in 1908, as we have seen, winston churchill, then president of the british board of trade, vented a similar historical interpretation in finding 'the seed of imperial ruin and national decay" in " THE UNNATURAL GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR" and "the swift increase of vulgar jobless luxury"
i am sure more to come.
while in madison i was reading AMERICAN THEOCRACY by kevin phillips. i hit the meat. published in 2007, it addresses what happened in the waning days of bush-
-unexpected federaal budget surplusses replaced them(deficits) in 1998, 1999, and 2000. still buoyed by this, a heady GWB, weeks after taking office in 2001, delivered the state of the union and budget messages proposing to both "pay down an unprecedented part of our national debt" and "double our Medicare budget over the next decade."
ya. of course midass touch did THE OPPOSITE.
-As for rising public consumption and its flip side, nonexistent personal savings, that duality also had excuses. did people really need to save in banks when the values of their assets-stocks and real estate-were climbing like rockets? wise or not(NOT), these were staple explainations.
-Roach, the chief economist at morgan stanley, described the fed chairman as a 'serial bubble blower.' by 2004 others spoke about an echo bubble or a double echo or even referred to greenspan as chairman bubbles. the expansion of debt was huge, indisputable, and a topic of spirited national conversation.
-the fed's policies, however shrewd were not rooted in an abstraction of the national interest but in the pursuit of its statutory mandate to protect the US banking and payments system, now inseparable from from the broadly defined financial-services sector. to this end, the 2001-2003 rate cuts extended a more than two-decade pattern, relentless under greenspan, of slapping large green liquidity band-aids on any financial wound that might get infected.
-in mid 2004, the center for public integrity tabulated the leading lifetime patrons of GWB: the big four were MORGAN STANLEY, MERRILL LYNCH, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, AND MBNA, the credit-card giant. the family's background also blended these same origins and commitment. no presidential clan has been so involved in banking, investments, and money management over so much time.
and georgee STILL managed t kill wall street AZND every business he ever touched.
-"the money that's made from manufacturing stuff is a pittance in comparison to the amount of money made from shuffling money around. 44% of all corporate profits in the US come from the financial sector compared with only 10% from the manufacturing sector." -ray dalio
-if history teaches us anything, it's that this so-called cutting edge finance is an accident waiting to happen, despite claims by the so-called new-macro economists that derivatives are tame and BENIGN and that national debt and deficits are manageable within a new global savings pool in which national boundaries no longer matter so much. even alan greensapn occasionally owned to uncertainty about where speculators and new credit instruments-hedge funds and derivatives in particular-might be taking the country.
looks like it headed straight towards implosion, EH?
-we can only wonder which one would have been most appalled: george washington, who in the early 1770's decried london creditors for their treatment of virginians: benjamin franklin, who deplored debt; john adams, who publicly loathed banks; or thomas jeffersonn, who feared the rise of a financial elite(i am gonna say tom). lincoln, who put labor ahead of capital, would have been equally displeased. likewise the 2 roosevelts, theodore and franklin. even the lessons of greece and rome were relevant, as the men deliberating in 1787 had known from their readings
history matters!
-in 1908, as we have seen, winston churchill, then president of the british board of trade, vented a similar historical interpretation in finding 'the seed of imperial ruin and national decay" in " THE UNNATURAL GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR" and "the swift increase of vulgar jobless luxury"
i am sure more to come.
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RANDOM 341 OBJECT
my aunt would love this.
RANDOM EBAY OBJECT
stupid sellerss. ALL PHOTOS ARE FREE IN COLLECTABLES. a few others spots too. antiques.
RANDOM BIEDERMEIER
early fiestaware! cept more breakable.
RANDOM PIMPED CAR
1954 cadillac fleetwood sixty special
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
west baltimore, howard park. thehoodwatch
FRIDAY ART BLOGGING
i call this model 'the hot one'. tho not 'handsome', i found him very sexy. tho not my type, but he did have that 'it'. and we did NOT have him at MIAD. pout.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
RANDOM HOARD
i got this like my 1st year of estate saling in madison. was on my way to my cousin's and saw a sign + made a bearline. cool sale. student made. but nice.
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RANDOM ART FAIR
more weather shots from sat.
RANDOM 341 OBJECTS
I have seen these in place at an estate sale, they are quite pretty.
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
girl's school. thehoodwatch
RANDOM DETOUR
cameras flatten, so it was even more rolling
RANDOM 341 OBJECT-FUNNY
Contemporary BOX w MAORI HEAD Sculpture EASTER ISLAND
sold for $9.50? i shoulda bid!
Contemporary BOX w MAORI HEAD Sculpture EASTER ISLAND
sold for $9.50? i shoulda bid!
I’m a sucker for boxes, and I’ll buy just about any that cross my path. When I spotted this one with its striking (and heavy) mask in the likeness of the monolithic statues on Easter Island, I just had to have it.
It measures 10 ¼” by 5” by 5” to the tip of his nose when you have it laying down flat on a table.
I don’t know what the face is made of, but it’s heavy. I’m guessing composition of some sort since the box isn’t very old at all.
DANG! I must be getting old! I could have at least brushed that thing off his upper lip. That looks horrible! It looks like something’s hanging out of his nose. Let’s try that again.
HOLY $#*# !
They got me again. It’s a danged tissue box. Oh well . . . The Maori on Easter Island are fascinating, especially what happened in the 1770s. More on that in a jiffy. I’ve gotta go take a nerve pill.
The black part is plastic, and I think this is quite possibly the kitschiest thing I’ve run across in a spell.
Sometime around 1770 or so, war broke out between two parties. I don’t know who – don’t care frankly. They were Polynesian: That’s the important part, and I think I like the way they have a war. (That is, of course, if this is all there was to it.) One of the warring factions tipped over all those big stone statues. It didn’t happen overnight, but eventually they all got tipped over.
Just as I suspected. Dang! I try not to buy that stuff. I’d certainly never buy it new from a real store on purpose. I like American stuff, which is why I’m totally out of underwear right now. You can call me “Commando 341.”
But anyhow . . . Maybe we should present this to the U.N. When one country has a beef with another, they could just do a night raid (something like those panty raids we did back in the old days at college) and tip over the other guy’s statues.
That peeing boy over in the Old Country someplace would be a good place to start. If someone has a bone to pick with us, they could call me, and I’d give them directions to Oklahoma where there’s a sixty foot tall monument of a set of goofy-looking hands. They could tip that rascal over and the national IQ would probably go up a few points.
Well that certainly wasn’t very nice, now was it.
GOOD LUCK
I just know I’ll get emails from people down there - Not about the hands though. They’ll be asking, “Does the box of tissues come with it?”
Q: i think the tomato soup gave him heartburn
A: Since it's been under my photo lights for at least five years, it is more likely food poisoning. Thanks-a-million, Dennis
RANDOM SEXY MILWAUKEE
ha! out baseball teams 'sausage race' in the photo of the day on CNN's website. looks like no one is winning tho. i feel like i need to try a chiriso(sp). so far i like brats best. i think was accidently given a polish one time and no like.
ha! out baseball teams 'sausage race' in the photo of the day on CNN's website. looks like no one is winning tho. i feel like i need to try a chiriso(sp). so far i like brats best. i think was accidently given a polish one time and no like.
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
thomas edison high school. thehoodwatch
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
RANDOM MARCO
my italian e-pal went vacationing in switzerland and sent some pics. this is #1.
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RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
tver region, russian federation. koroleni
RANDOM ART FAIR
more of the weather on the way back.
RANDOM 341 OBJECT
Joyful HUMMEL Girl PLAYS BANJO w Mysterious Issue
I don’t know whether to be overwhelmed with grief or giddy from joy, but this Hummel has turned my life around.
Don’t you think it’s sad that some people go through almost an entire lifetime never knowing what they were meant to do? There are those, you know, who have a rare talent but never discover it for any of a hundred reasons. Sometimes, even when they do, their personal circumstances stand in the way. Some are “called.” Others wander through the decades in search of something eating away at them – although they can’t put their finger on it.
Well . . . After finding this Hummel with a fairly serious issue, I discovered way too late in life that I do, in fact, have a special talent.
We’ve done a thorough investigation, and we’re almost positive it was a suicide. As to motive, that may forever remain a mystery, but most of us think it’s pretty simple.
We believe she simply awoke one morning and realized she was a Hummel, . . .
so the original paper tag may have not been entirely accurate.
Be frank with me: Is there a market for “Hummel heads?” Don’t hold back. I’m a big boy. I can handle the truth.
Hummeliacs know what all that means. I don’t, and please don’t tell me. My brain is shrinking as I age – which is strange. My earlobes and all three of my front teeth are getting longer. Who came up with THAT idea!?
Do you realize - If she could stand up straight she’d be almost 5 ¾” tall? But she can’t.
CONDITION: There is a tiny ding on the back of her head and some crazing. Other than that and that thing with the head, she’s perfect.
It’s a pretty clean break. A drop of so of some modern glue will do the trick. If a houseguest reaches for her to examine her, smack his hand. You’ve got plenty more friends anyway, and most of them aren’t that nosy.
Gotta go! I’m piled high with antiques from three local estates – plus stuff I’ve had since Noah wore short pants.
RANDOM PIMPED CAR
1954 buick century riviera
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
washington st. col our
WODEN'S DAY PHOTO ALBUM BLOGGING
now i do all the loose photos i have bought. 3 for $1, 5 for $1 and such. or the really lucky one, tons of old stuff at a neat sale, had a pre WW2 big folding map of berlin. way cool. so, up in the 2nd floor/attic, bunch of photos. lot of them, and i go thru them to find the best and ask, says $3, for all of them? SOLD. had 2 pis of a derigible,so i ebayed 1.
this one, cause i like old war shots. love dough boys. can't tell if I or II. the coat seems more WW! tho. maybe.
WEDNESDAY FELINE EXPLOITATION BLOGGING
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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RANDOM EBAY OBJECT
a halfway decent p[alatnik. if not for the price. HOW MUCH?
RANDOM ETSY
socktopus! blackbirdfashion.
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
the lorraine hotel. thehoodwatch
RANDOM SPRING GREEN
these are clouds + such from sat in spring green + owen parkway's overlook.
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RANDOM 341 OBJECT
i wish i could go to the sales in his neighborhood.
RANDOM EBAY OBJECT
RANDOM PIMPED CAR
1953 studebaker commander starlight
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
the lorraine hotel, thehoodwatch
Monday, June 29, 2009
RANDOM CLOUD
knew i was forgettin something. wendy rogers
RANDOM HOARD
i got this early in estate saling. signed student pot of the druggie era. big. but i love it.
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RANDOM ART FAIR BLOGGING
fri. the highway to spring green was shovel ready in spots, my cousin drove and we tried to take it, but it cot too bad going to black earth, so took the detour i found, accidently passed our DOT detour, but my grandpa taught me to ignore what they say. so we went back to KP and turned NORTH. we saw a big doe acting like a squirrel. got off the road, but going back, but i knew she REALLY wanted to cross. we did not hit her. and continued on the PRETTIEST drive, to hwy 19, west to hwy 78 a bit + got back on 14. found my space. good spot, but a alley right there-breezeway. as sarah is 6'1", putting everything up is a breeze. on the way back we tried the DOT detour. dark, so hard to tell if it was nice.
sat. nice weather again, but cloudy. which was good. sunny spot. set up art, but the cro
's glass had gotten damaged, the bear fell over and another broken glass. i dropped a little one, mom dropped one trying to hang them. and yes. i am barefoot. only stabbed trying to pick up some glass.
almost done by the start. hardware nearby recut the glass. got some bigger s hooks. spilled my coffee. and sat and as usual, very slow nothing. but i never epect anything til 11 anyways. and then BAM! this woman 40/50ish walks in starts grabbing 5x7 framed prints($15) has a bunch and comes towards me, then grabbes 3 bigger ones 11x8.5($20/$25). picks a few out of her pile, and then says a person will be by to pay. a minion comes back later and i add it up--$155, and i wrap them up. after they are gone i look at the check. epic something. she certainly acted like a CEO. most small sales off + on, but $15 adds up. did pretty good considering the Wecession. had a few sprinkles of rain. too much sun, but had liquids this time. was a little windy.
closed up. left everything up. decided to take pretty home. was shorter than DOT even with all the curves and hills. i like curves and hills.
got to madison about 7, but there were PRETTY clouds, so before going to sarah's, hit the owen parkway's overlook. and got back just in time for BEER CAN CHICKEN! did not TASTE like beer. too stormy for back yard. ate in the dinningroom. fancy. had corn too. but the storms went north + south. just rain + cleared by 10. sowindows open.
sun. lazy breakfast when we hear very loud chipping from dinningroom. sounded inside, so we go in there. and since we had 1 briefly in the backyard last year i KNEW it was a catbird, tho i could not see it's rusty spot. so, for a few seconds we wer maybe 5 feet away with a perfect shot of it's black 'mohawk'. good omen? HA!
mom is worried my tent is in disarray, but i wanna take pics on the detour. she DID weigh it down w/ 2 water filled cat litter jugs hanging from each corner. so, took N KP, got pictures. will download those for tomorrow. the tent was as we left it. but before i set up, i walked across the street to look at another artist. very cool stuff. will get her web eddress. she paints guache over woodcuts. VERY NICE. she had cards, i picked out 3 and she said i could have them. no barter. she can have a print. or 2. but alas. like last year, we did not have a breeze like sat. we had gusty wind. many people lost tents. or had issues. she lost hers, so she was busy. and she was alone. i had issues too, and if sarah handn't bungie tied the top of the tent to the metal frame in 2 spots....
mom or people would hang on to the tent for big gusts and then the bigger cheap framed frog print committed suicide. more glass. we had taken some biger ones down in the windiest spots, but that was a clue, took that side down completely, but was good, i could get out of the sun + into the tent. and peole could see the neighbors carved walking sticks. luckily the one i really liked didn't sell. has a deer horn on it. not ven a 2 point. more like 2 buds. guess i need to take pics. it wasn't as good as the 1st day, but never EVER is better. unless an original sells. and more framed sales. AND i sold a crow print to a guy. his wife was with mom not liking crows. AND i sold a framed guinea hen, tho the guy said it will be a 'turkey'. that is ok. turkey=guinea hen. a sale is a sale. i sold the rhino as a warthog. the rooster can play a parrot. 6 is better than 3.
at the end i went over w/ a few prints and said she could have some. she took a dog and not sure. 2. got her card. love her chickens.
found out we did't take the best KP detour, so took that. it was nice, but the 1st KP was the BEST. drive home banal + long.
yes, i got burned on sat a bit. sun scree for sun. it was not hot unless in the sun.
RANDOM ESTATE SALE
this is my $4 haul + 1 shoplift. OOPS. i need to clean my bag. i rooted around in there and didn't spot the pie-crimper. plastic anyway, so not that old. A ROUND TUIT!
RANDOM TONALA CRITTER
this got a lot of money
RANDOM 341 ONJECT
he did go on about this statue's ass. he liked it. perfect he said.
RANDOM PIMPED CAR
1953 studebaker champion.
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
leicestershire. garethness
MONDAY ROADKILL BLOGGING
i think i sold a little framed one this weekend. but will say more tomorrow.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
RANDOM VOLCANO CAM
pansypoo is busy, but here's a taste.
Friday, June 26, 2009
RANDOM ESTATE SALE
before i go + forget. yesterday i did an estate sale the only day possible. 1st day. and still a liine to go in. only 10 in the house at a time. huge old 1880's or so brick home that had been a dr's house/office. looks like he stopped doing medicine in the 40's maybe. loved the deco xray machine. house was interseting, but dim and dusty and needed an airing. a GOOD WASH. full price, and not much i wanted anyways. but i did spend $4, will post my haul AFTER spring green. but here's the pics. i guess the house had been hidden by overgrowth in the yard. i bet it was stuck in probate. seemed it had been boxed up for decades i bet. i'd love to see the 'after' pics. and it was just blocks away from the framing shop i go to. my new roakill not ready. then off to organic food store. so, full day. his office was a pit. as was his little lab. why so few pics. maybe do a exterior shot before bay view frolics.
PANSYPOO WILL BE BACK
sunday lol cherch will be cancelled next week.
sunday lol cherch will be cancelled next week.
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RANDOM VOLCANO
another view of the volcano's shock wave.
RANDOM 341 OBJECTS
i have never seen marbles like these. except the swirlies. i have some old ones. maybe not as nice. 1 have to glazed. 1 i found myself, had rose to the surface of the lawn, on the edge of my grandpas new driveway. but the plaid? the whole lot made $100. i like the mica ones. yes. i collect marbles too.
RANDOM ABANDONED PLACE
faire. thehoodwatch
FRIDAY ART BLOGGING
colored pencil/pastel? no, pencil pastel pencils.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
RANDOM ABANONED PLACE
grain silos that weren't imploded, only shifted. yerman32
RANDOM E BRITANNICA
DRUSES, MARCUS LIVIUS- patrician during gracch + in tribunal w/ caius gracchus 122bc. provided 12 colonies in italy for gracchus. consulship 112bc. macedonia his province. d 109bc.
DRUSES, MARCUS LIVIUS- son of above. in politics early. rich + lavished gifts an city. tribune 91bc blah blah character hard to decifer to some, uncrupulous + selfish(GEORGEE! jr.), others ablest + wisest of roman demagogues, a questor in asia, he refused to wear the robes of the offices 'ne quid ips esset insignius" when summoned before senate, he bids the to come to him, "they will find me in curia hostilia" + they came. he had good, needed reforms. his measures may have prevented civil war( not georgee)
DRY ROT- disease of timber, apparently infectious. blah blah
DRUSES, MARCUS LIVIUS- patrician during gracch + in tribunal w/ caius gracchus 122bc. provided 12 colonies in italy for gracchus. consulship 112bc. macedonia his province. d 109bc.
DRUSES, MARCUS LIVIUS- son of above. in politics early. rich + lavished gifts an city. tribune 91bc blah blah character hard to decifer to some, uncrupulous + selfish(GEORGEE! jr.), others ablest + wisest of roman demagogues, a questor in asia, he refused to wear the robes of the offices 'ne quid ips esset insignius" when summoned before senate, he bids the to come to him, "they will find me in curia hostilia" + they came. he had good, needed reforms. his measures may have prevented civil war( not georgee)
DRY ROT- disease of timber, apparently infectious. blah blah
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RANDOM 341 OBJECT
still available + cheap for him.
RANDOM VOLCANO CAM