Monday, August 29, 2005
i feel kinda crass for blogging about an estate sale when all the katrina shit is going down in the south, but then i have followed anything since this afternoon. i hear it is getting worse. but then, compare that to the tsunami?
ooh. dueling disasters.
well, finally, the MENLO sale. oh rats. purple ticket. they really are insane about prices. $3 for a polo shirt?($1.50 for today). somebody else was buying it.
the books were not as old as i expected. but i did find 3. MOO, a lemony snicket, and a 1903 diary. ooh. jewish immigrant in new york. i read the 1st 2 entries. so far very good.
the exterior was sort of a italian palace/englishish. obviously downsizing baby boomers. or moving. can't say i liked most of their stuff.
center entry. house built maybe in the teens or so. wide staircase, very mansionish. and a sitting area on the 2nd floor landing! big leaded windows. spanish plaster(not as nice as ours) great woodwork. but bad flow. fireplace is nicer than ours, but our mantle nicer. and the livingroom floor had me stumped for a while. maple in the middle(oh man! is that birds-eye maple?!? and along the walls, quarter-sawn oak. i didn't see it was around the whole room at first. man. the maple was covered by rugs? what a waste. but not now. i sure hope new owners don't carpet it. was surprised i couldn't see lake from the 3rd floor, but it is on a bluff that far north of bradford beach, WHICH was extra ripe today. PEEyoo! gotta do something to get rid of that algae!!!
ooh. dueling disasters.
well, finally, the MENLO sale. oh rats. purple ticket. they really are insane about prices. $3 for a polo shirt?($1.50 for today). somebody else was buying it.
the books were not as old as i expected. but i did find 3. MOO, a lemony snicket, and a 1903 diary. ooh. jewish immigrant in new york. i read the 1st 2 entries. so far very good.
the exterior was sort of a italian palace/englishish. obviously downsizing baby boomers. or moving. can't say i liked most of their stuff.
center entry. house built maybe in the teens or so. wide staircase, very mansionish. and a sitting area on the 2nd floor landing! big leaded windows. spanish plaster(not as nice as ours) great woodwork. but bad flow. fireplace is nicer than ours, but our mantle nicer. and the livingroom floor had me stumped for a while. maple in the middle(oh man! is that birds-eye maple?!? and along the walls, quarter-sawn oak. i didn't see it was around the whole room at first. man. the maple was covered by rugs? what a waste. but not now. i sure hope new owners don't carpet it. was surprised i couldn't see lake from the 3rd floor, but it is on a bluff that far north of bradford beach, WHICH was extra ripe today. PEEyoo! gotta do something to get rid of that algae!!!
