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So happy to see these posts again, Lucille. By the way, we streamed the Father’s Day drive thru time show last night on our TV screen and thoroughly enjoyed it. Reminds me of Mike Rowe a little, and – your’re right – his presentation is very comfortable.
Hope you and Stellars have a bright week!!
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So glad you liked it, weather. Dave is one of my favorite people. His videos often help clear up some of the questions I have about history in general and Biblical history, specifically. And he does it in a relatable and well-researched way. Have a lovely day!
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How wonderful! All of us that haunt thrift shops and antique fairs hope for just such an outcome….
“A Chair Bought for $5 in a Junk Shop Sells at Auction for over $16,000”
By Good News Network – Jan 30, 2022
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/chair-bought-for-5-bucks-sells-at-auction-for-17k/
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I know someone who mines thrift stores and makes up to $20k per year re-selling books and clothing she buys in a bag for $5 per visit. Basically a daily junk store junkie who turns it into cash. (Also rents storage space for all the junk she doesn’t sell.)
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A guy I used to work with does that too.
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Years ago a friend of mine and I went to a bankruptcy sale for a jewelry and loose gem company held at their warehouse in Los Angeles. They handed out smallish cardboard boxes for people to put their loot in and sold everything by weight.
My container was full of sterling silver jewelry and semi-precious gems like the quartz varieties, especially amethysts. As I recall, it cost me $15. My friend and I were so surprised at what we were able to purchase for such small prices that we came back the following weekend and bought more.
I was giving out birthday and Christmas gifts from that haul for a couple of years.
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Good morning everybody! Rain here over night. We needed it.
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Dry, hot. Predicted 96* with climb to 100* by Saturday. Actually tolerable in the shade as humidity is low (for the south!). Need to water the blueberries to keep them producing.
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Good morning, Stella. We’re overcast today and presently at a coolish 54 degrees. Perhaps we’ll have some rain. But typical to the Great Northwest, you never know when the weather will quickly turn crummy or clear up.
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Mornin’ all!
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I used to think about retiring my hunting clothing as I no longer hunt. I’ve changed in that I think that “hunter orange” is rather stylish now and that brush pants still fit nicely!!!
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No Orange for me! I’ll be lurking in the trees, quiet-like in my cammo.
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Mornin’ Pa!
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Mornin’ Wee! Me too. I heart this movie.
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Me too!
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‘t ain’t about gettin’ older, but about gettin’ more cautious and sensible…
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Mornin’ Czarina!
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Good day to you, WeeWeed! Two national treasures for their respective countries.
Sir Michael Caine is 89 and in very poor health. Did you know he was in combat with the British Army during the Korean War? I only found that out recently. Another factoid: he was knighted in 2000 but under his name Maurice Micklewhite so as to honor his father.
Robert Duvall is 91 and apparently in pretty good health. I read that he doesn’t like anything to do with his being in his 90s. LOL! Join the group on not particularly liking the slowing down of getting old, huh?
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Hiya Lucille!
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Mornin’ all, cloudy and cool today, not even in the 70’s today, but starting tomorrow, we close in very close to the 90’s and rain!
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A little bit of Father’s Day humor:
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Mornin’ All. Hot and humid. I think it rained last night. My friend and I got a lot done yesterday. But, I don’t see how I can get all of it done in a week. I am not sure my son can even get here with the airline industry such a mess with all the cancellations. Well, I just need to keep plugging along. Have a nice day.
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Is Loki doing better? No more “accidents”?
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Yeah. I think part of the problem was that I was stressing out and she was picking up on that along with moving things around in the apartment. Since I settled down a little bit, you know, after I got the apartment in Montana, she seems much calmer too. I started to stress out over flying, too, and when I made the decision not to fly at all, I again calmed down. Also, it is much easier to give her a pill than that liquid antibiotic. She is sleeping peacefully right now.
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Well mom, I’ve concluded that my flying days are over! No clot shot or mask for me! Time to leave the skies period. This country needs to hit rock bottom! We NEED our DEITY that some decided we don’t want! To this day, I get on my knees and ask forgiveness! The powers that be DO NOT determine my faith! These progressive libtards can take their rules and regulations and shove them where the sun don’t shine, sideways! Am I being bitter? NO just honest!
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I had almost made that decision myself before all this started happening. Now I just don’t want anything to do with flying.
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I haven’t flown anywhere since 2004. My last big vacation was by train.
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I would like to travel by train. But for a long trip I would need a compartment of some kind. Even just overnight is a little rough.
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I took the Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland, then back from Seattle to Chicago. I had a small compartment on the way back – what they call a ‘roomette’. Private and a bed, but no bath. Meals included.
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There are shared toilets in the sleeping car (like what they have on airplanes) and shared showers on the lower level of the car.
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That is what would work for me, I think. I believe to get to Montana, I would have to go to NY and then across from there. It would be a very long trip,.
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You are right. I once looked into taking the train from Detroit to Florida. It involved a 12 hour layover in D.C. Not good. The Empire Builder goes through Montana, btw.
The nicest Amtrak route is the one from Chicago to Oakland, CA. The scenery in Colorado and west is just wonderful. I haven’t taken the entire trip, but have taken the part from Denver to Glenwood Springs, CO in both directions. Highly recommend. That is the California Zephyr.
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Took a roomette on the City of New Orleans round trip NO to Chicago. & back. Good trip except no scenery.
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Would dearly love to make a “lap around America” by rail! Maybe work that in with seeing the Northern Lights somehow, LOL!
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I don’t know if they still offer it, but Amtrak used to have something similar to the rail pass that they have in Europe. I gave that trip to my daughter when she graduated high school, and she and her best friend went on an adventure. They could travel unlimited for a period of 60 days (I think that’s right) and make two stopovers for a ridiculously low fare. It was coach, but they were 18! They traveled from Detroit to San Bernadino, CA, then took the bus to L.A. Continued travel to Eugene, OR, then back to Detroit. I thought it would be safer than a bus trip (and I was right about that.)
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It’s different now, but still reasonably priced. Only 30 days, though.
https://www.amtrak.com/tickets/departure-rail-pass.html
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If you travel coach, be sure to book a lower level seat on double-deck cars. There is no through traffic, and the bathrooms are on the lower level.
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Good afternoon, aus! Don’t envy you re packing. It’s not so much the putting items in boxes, but wrapping things u securely so they won’t break is an obsession of mine. I think I’m borderline OCD anyway and have worried myself sick to the point of some fragile pieces of antique furniture was simply given to friends or a thrift shop because I was so afraid they would get broken. Yeah, crazy.
Glad your darling Loki is doing better. They do so pick up on our stress. Sometimes when I get out of a chair and let out a yelp because of some pain or discomfort, Gee runs for cover. LOL!
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If I were still a traveling gal, I’d love to go to NYC and see this apartment…and if I had the money I’d buy it. Yeah, it’s overpriced like everything real estate in NYC, but I love the 20’s decoration and have lots of my own stuff which would look great there.
This is what it was like to live in New York City 100 years ago…
Erik Conover YouTube Channel
I adore Erik, btw, like a dear grandson. His channel is one of YouTubes’ most popular in the real estate presentation field. And he’s devoted to his absolutely beautiful golden retriever named Theodore, Theo for short.
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That is a gorgeous place, but I could never live there. I like having a door to the outside from my apartment and bigger rooms. But that place is really beautiful.
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Hung up in the spam again. 😉
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
And our duly-elected President put out his own video of him golfing and one shot thonked SloJo on his head. I died at viewing that one, too!
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Things are beginning to percolate around the globe. Israel disbanding government for 5th time in 3 years.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-to-dissolve-parliament-call-5th-election-in-3-years/ar-AAYEUj2?li=BBnb7Kz
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Delightful bevy of posts today. Lucille, glad to see you posting again.
Asuscitizenmom, You’re in the home stretch!
Stella, WeeWeed, help! What’s the movie you reference? Thanks!
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Secondhand Lions.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327137/
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Haven’t seen this, but will.
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You will love it.
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Thanks for the link!
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Thanks, Reflection! Fun to be posting once more.
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It’s awesome! I had two uncles just like ’em……
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Excellent column by Don Surber
A country its leaders do not live in
. . . But in Washington, where no one ever gets laid off and no one has to go to work if it snows, the show is the talk of the town. The rest of the country has to work today. DC closed for Juneteenth.
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The great divide in America is not between lefties and righties. The divide is between the governed and the government.
There is an election on November 8. Chickens won’t be coming home to roost. Eagles will arrive, talons up.
Newt Gingrich sees 75 House seats flipping Republican — which would be his party’s best showing in 128 years. This only works if you flush about half those 200 or so sitting Republican congressmen down the commode with their Democrat pals. We found that out in 2010 when Republicans threw away their Tea Party victory like Biden threw away Afghanistan.
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The Salena Zito article he refers to:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/american-decimation-on-the-front-lines-of-the-tearing-of-our-social-fabric
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She has some good stuff. I follow her on FB. An old-fashioned reporter.
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Happy 80th Brian Wilson!
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Wow!!
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Mike Love has to be close to that too, and I think he’s still touring.
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He’s 81. He – I am not much impressed with. (Too many movies with the family history, probably.)
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You’re right. I’ve met him.
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Brilliant man. Brilliant.
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