May 20th

Weather: a nice day, but unsettled weather. Very nice in the morning, then the clouds moved in and a couple of quick rainshowers made things a bit muggy. Overall, a perfect day for saleing!

Remarks: we started the day early (shortly after 8) so we could head for Bellvue to watch the boom truck erecting the 2nd story walls on Gail and Mick's new coo-coo's nest building. Very interesting--and very impressive, it's going to be a huge building!! After watching the action for an hour or so we started saleing in Bellvue and then saled our way back to Loveland. An out-of-town excursion! We scored some "foreign" cuuh!

"Using the Cuuh" update: I cleaned up and then used the Kenmore mixer I bought last week to make a loaf of banana bread, a batch of peanut butter cookies, and a cake this week. Works great!

Amount spent: $14.25
Our first stop (in Bellvue) netted this haul, we paid $5 for all of this:

• Wooden holder of "coffee shots" (see a better photo + explanation below)
• 12 very nice damask napkins + 8 very nice embroidered handkerchiefs (in an orange shoebox)
• Panasonic electric pencil sharpener--a companion to the Panasonic electric stapler we bought May 5th. The sharpener is really nice, it has a light (upper left of pencil hole) that comes on when the pencil is done
• Battery-operated fluorescent light (with pull switch, uses 4 D-cells)
• spiral bound paperback: National Geographic Field Photographer's handbook
• paperback: Arizona Highways book on Saguaro cacti
• paperback: handbook of gems, beautiful photos in this book
• pile of silver colored chains
• little carved plague with a fish design
• stainless crumb tray
• Maxine book: "Yelling it Like it is"
  

The picture above doesn't show the "coffee shooters" we bought very well, here is a better one:
Joe told Mick he should buy these, that he could fill them with strong coffee and serve them as "shooters", that is the reason for the strange name. The woman at the sale speculated they were intended for rooting (plant) cuttings, and that sounds like a plausible explanation to me. We visited a website earlier in the week which featured some lamps made by a very clever artist, and I'll have to admit it inspired me to look for similar possibilities in my travels. This rack of bottles was a result of that inspiration. If you have time, take a look, this fellow makes very cool lamps from found items: http://www.afterglow-studio.com/work.html
Other sales netted additional treasures:

• 2 cords with bulb sockets for making hanging lamps-$1 each
• Very large glass S + P shakers-$2
• 14 giant nails-$1
• National Geographic book about China-50 cents
• Bag of hair ties-25 cents
• BH&G Wok cookbook-50 cents
• 6 brass hinges-$1
• Pet (evaporated milk) recipe book from 1932-25 cents
• Presto pressure cooker cookbook from ? '50s?-25 cents

At one sale in Ft Collins a woman was selling paperbacks for 25 cents each, including these books. What a steal, the computer books were $50+ originally, and a couple are just a couple of years old. I run old software versions (which these books cover) and am always looking for reasonably priced books for those versions. Hit the jackpot at this sale! And just couldn't say no to the woodworking and the making fancy jewelry boxes books at a quarter apiece, they were just too good of a deal!!!