Post by firebringer on Jun 16, 2012 13:38:50 GMT -5
The church secretary found me a great chest of drawers at a yard sale at the beginning of May. I had to leave it out on the front sunny porch so the fabric softener stench would bake out of it. It stayed on the porch for a month. I have to send out "agents" to do all my looking, fetching these days. So she finds one for a decent price, wood. Maple I think. It is distressed looking which is good.
I ended up donating my 44 year old piano to the church yard sale. I was glad to unload it as it needed work. For years it was a glorified doll stand collecting dust. The guts of the thing had a moisture problem, or it was too dry. I was never interested in playing it as much as my parents wanted me to learn. They should have learned to play and stopped micromanaging my activities.
Wed. a bunch of old dudes showed up to haul the piano out of the house, along with a punishing blue recliner. Couldn't stand that thing. Impossible to sleep on it, too painful. So it got donated. Then I donated a color computer monitor and a PC tower. Then a tiny color portable TV from 1991 that I had connected to a VCR. That will be good for somebody.
Anyway my "agents" went looking for Corning Cookmates. I read in Radical Medicine that the safest cookwear and the most non-toxic are the Corningwear type. So one of Mom's friends went to the church yardsale yesterday morning to see what they had and found a 5 quart Corning Rangetop pyroceram pot for 75 cents. On the Internet these things are selling for fifty bucks. She also found a Corning wear vintage Country Festival small skillet with a lid for twenty five cents. Then she emailed me this morning said she got me a Corning wear coffee maker. My "agents" went looking at Goodwill yesterday but didn't see anything remotely Corningwear-ish. Did though find a suede skirt that I'm going to use to make a Western saddle attachment, more like a cover that goes over the saddle that stops all that sliding around feeling that I dislike so much. Not paying thirty bucks for one of these things when I can make it myself. The skirt was $ 3.50.
“The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.” -George Graham Vest
i have never seen a junker use the term ''agents'' smiles you got it going on fire. sale on my friends.......smiles
I have to get other people these days to do all the looking and fetching. I've sunk far by losing leg strength. I'm almost to the power chair stage.
Mom's friend Dot found a vintage Blue Cornflower Corning coffee pot for a buck, but it's missing the percolator guts. Don't know where to find the replacement for that.
I hope I'll get some strength back now that I "think" I have my Lyme Literate MD talking to my quack Internist. I hope they will have some common ground, work together to get me in a more functional health state.
“The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.” -George Graham Vest
St. Vincent de Paul thrift store is my favorite new place. All used merchandise is half off on Saturdays, I found a great very heavy cement planter with the festooned grapevine pattern on it this past weekend. They're far too expensive for me to buy new, this one was marked $10 so I got it for $5. Made me very happy!
I also found a solid maple childs rocking chair for my granddaughter there last year, got it for $12. I looked it up online, they sell for over $300 new. Really happy about that one.
Most of my Revereware has come from yard sales or thrift stores, I've also gotten a lot for my kids too. Also have many cast iron pans this was, my latest find at St. Vincent's on Sat. is a perfect condition Kirby vacuum for my son I got for $10, needs a belt and bags.
garrett: Spring is here too.lol
Apr 7, 2015 11:28:23 GMT -5
tsteven1: In honor of Garrett- I have regular leaf and potato leaf tomaters. So this year, I get this tomater that has leaves that are cylindrical and red at their bases. So, of course, I applied for a patent for "Redneck Leaf Tomatoes."
Apr 12, 2015 9:47:14 GMT -5
garrett: get er done ts...lol
May 3, 2015 22:10:39 GMT -5
garrett: Garden on my friends
Jun 8, 2015 10:34:30 GMT -5
pepper: Same leaf just shot it in macro
Nov 16, 2015 10:21:27 GMT -5
Train: I guess as long as you have folks posting you have a worthy site.
Jan 10, 2016 13:03:56 GMT -5
daylilydude: Let's get this garden party started...
Jun 5, 2016 4:57:26 GMT -5
cliffrat: How about adding a "share" button for the Facebookers?
Jun 5, 2016 20:34:57 GMT -5
daylilydude: cliffrat the "share" button is already part of the forum? At the top of the page you will see a bar that shows "Prev/ Next" on the left...look to the right for a button "Actions" the share button is in there... just click it...
Jun 8, 2016 3:43:19 GMT -5
bella: Anyone left around here??? Wondering how gardens are doing.
Aug 9, 2016 19:24:20 GMT -5
adzack: Does anyone know if Garret is still living?
Dec 20, 2017 19:14:41 GMT -5
coppice: He has not posted in Not Just Tomatoes, in several years...
Oct 28, 2018 17:50:02 GMT -5
coppice: I just checked membership. According to that, Garret visited here in July of this year. I wish he would reply some place or another. I may have some nutmeg hickory seed for him...
Oct 31, 2018 16:36:21 GMT -5
coppice: I did have nutmeg hickory (a remnant pecan) and pinyon for him. too bad he remains unreachable.
Dec 10, 2018 11:41:04 GMT -5
coppice: Neener neener, I just WS crab apples, to make smaller grafted apples on.
Jan 6, 2019 13:26:33 GMT -5
archerdan: Hi, Been away a while. Looking for folks from idigmygarden.com Can't pull up the site.
Feb 21, 2020 15:12:57 GMT -5
coppice: Archerdan, I-Dig has been dismantled. it is NO more.
Mar 9, 2020 6:32:57 GMT -5
coppice: Wanted upland blueberry. will buy and pay shipping.
May 23, 2020 10:09:00 GMT -5
nightmist: If you find no joy getting an upland blueberry, try the guy at st. lawrence nursery. They used to be a big place for blueberries, new guy worked for old guy and may know something.
Mar 14, 2021 4:59:40 GMT -5
nightmist: They had a variety called liberty, a found variety from wisconsin, that may have been a Vaccinium pallidum species. May not have been too, but as I recall the description matched the growth habit.
Mar 14, 2021 5:03:23 GMT -5