Today it snowed

This is a picture I snapped of two "associates" who were over joyed to go outside at work to try to catch the shudderlingly huge snowflakes on their tongues. The snow melted very quickly but it did snow just as intensely a couple more times during the day. Five more weeks of winter, according to the giant rat.

PENS AND PROPINQUITY

The ink pen pictured above is a favored instrument at work, unfortunately, Purchasing no longer carries them. So I decided to order some of my own....from Amazon.com.



The shorter ink pen shown above is what I got. I accidentally ordered a box of 12 of the MINI pens thinking they were the BIG ones... and they are so cute I shall keep them. Because they are so unique, I will always recognize them when they grow legs and walk off to work at other places within the facility.

Books need book cases and lots of them..... otherwise they would sit around in cardboad boxes and a person would forget which ones they read....

I purchased these three book cases from a large store that sold them to me in heavy boxes. I had to painfully assemble them. I am pretty sure I put them together UPSIDE down but they are made of very heavy press board material and hold heavy books. This section is where husband keeps books from his youth and are of a religious nature.You will also notice the use of blocking devices to keep cats out of the book shelves and the sun from shining intensely upon the books. I estimate this bookcase holds approximately 50 books.



These two previously assembled book cases are where I keep the remainder of my Sci-Fi books. I had a huge collection up until late 1990, when I sold most of them at a moving yard sale before moving to Barrow, Alaska. I advertised and people came EARLY because of the size of the collection. Sold the whole bunch...phew!

The bottom row of various colored binders contain the entire 9 years worth of "Bush Diary" that I bludgeoned my family with over the years as part of my annual Christmas letter. Sorry, guys. One person said they liked the Bush Diaries and I made EVERYONE suffer!





This bookshelf came to me courtesy of Carlah Dee Dah. She was in a mood to get rid of furniture, linens, copper collectibles etc. I drove up to Seattle and she loaded me up. The copper is acquiring a very nice patina, (Alton Brown showed me how to mix up vinegar, water, flour paste rub on copper, let set 15 minutes, rinse off to reveal lovely shiny copper ...uh...any way it looked easy on TV.)

Please notice the rather old encyclopedia on the bottom shelf. It was printed in 1947. I used a set EXACTLY like that as a kid to write a report on camels, one humps and two humps. The original family encyclopedia has long since passed to where ever outdated encyclopedia's go. Once my sister told me she had found a set, I asked her to keep an eagle out to get a set for me and by gosh, she found one! So now I can go look at the lovely illustrated children's stories..um if I wish. Thanks!




These consist of four stacking folding bookcases I purchased at Freddy's. I ran out of room downstairs.



Same stacking, folding bookshelves, three of them, half size to fit next to the door.



...and TODAY, I had lunch with a friend who wanted to visit The Oddity Shop down town after lunch. She found some jewelry and I found this cool folding bookshelf for 50 bucks. Husband kindly went back with me to wrestle it into the vehicle. I was able to get almost all of the boxes full of books that have been accumulating on my couch for the past year crammed onto the nifty new bookcase. I will have to keep a look out for another bookshelf to match as the LARGE CARDBOARD BOX next to it is packed three layers deep and contains about 300 books that need shelf space.

As a result of unpacking all of those books, I am happily reacquainting myself with books I had forgotten all about. Yeah!

I estimate that I have about 1000 books. A book store guy I chatted with in Bandon at his book store related that he had 10,000 books in his garage when he decided he had better start a book store.

9,000 to go. Better clean out the attic.

Update on gas prices and availability of such.......

We ran away to Bandon and got gas at the Chevron station for 1.90 per gallon. Lovely day there too. Went shopping at the local "box" store Price and Pride and got groceries at some savings.



Well, looky here, this price for regular has been posted at the Ex-exxon station and then they closed up and left town and took out the gasoline pumps too. Not to worry,we still have the Shell station as well as the "cheapie" gas at the mini mart on Hwy 42.



Local kids are using the space for a skateboard park and to exercise their pets.

the Peel, worlds smallest street legal car, UK.

I could not resist this little car, I believe it is smaller than my Uncle Al's Metropolitan, he drove it in the 50's and we kids called it the tomato soup can.

However, this vehicle is so small that it can be only useful for short range transportation, no room for groceries unless you tie the grocery cart to the back bumper.

Further, I am astounded that this vehicle has not been featured on Top Gear. Hmmm, it may well have been featured in the past as I have unfortunately only been watching Top Gear for the past few months.

I cannot imagine, Jeremy Clarkson, James May OR Richard Hammond squeezing themselves into this car. The boys could use it for a foot stool...or a movable giant soccer ball.....Hey guys!? How about a re-run of the soccer ball game with the little cars and the Peel as the soccer ball? Huh? Huh?

NOM DE PLUME

I decided to sponsor a lively blog dialog in order to entertain suggestions for First Nations writing career. She needs a nom de plume for the editors at (insert name of publishing house here).

C'mon people I know you can be creative. I think "INA M. GASKIN" is already taken as well as "Paul".

I shall lead off with:

M.J. Woot-Woot

For your viewing.....pleasure?

Click to make bigger, you GOTTA see this poster.

As if often the case, I see something on television that catches my eye (No idea why this one did) and I begin viewing in the middle, get interrupted, see the next bit on another day etc etc.

Death Race 2000 was filmed in 1975 starring amongst others; David Carradine (before Kung Fu I think), Sylvester Stallone (before Rocky) and Fred Grandy (Before the Love Boat sailed). Well, everybody has to eat. Movie stars must wince occasionally when these old beauties pop up.

Death Race 2000 is set in an America where Mr. President lives in Moscow and each year he sponsors the most popular show in America. Five contestants and their navigators race from east to west and who ever kills the most pedestrians wins. That simple. They must have saved a lot of money building the cars, they were all light weight sporty type cars with lots of deadly looking appliances glued on; horns, jagged teeth, large knives.

There is not much of a plot except the granddaughter of a revolutionary force is the navigator for Dr. Frankenstein (David Carradine). There are attempts to capture him to force Mr. President to stop the Death races. uh,huh.

When I spotted Sylvester Stallone as Machine Gun Joe sumpin' sumpin', I thought it was someone doing a poor imitation of Sly, that snarl, but nope it is him in all his glory one year before writing, directing and starring in Rocky.

I noticed Fred Grandy as Herman the German, navigator for um, um, some Teutonic woman driver and he didn't last long, he was fixing something underneath their menacing vehicle and another driver came along and drove RIGHT over poor Herman....lots of Hollywood gore splashing about.

The film was filmed locally in Ojai and the back foot hills of Hollywood because how many times have you watched the same bunch of cowboys galloping like crazy after a bunch of bad guy across those same acres? Yeah, I thought so.

And just so no one feels bad, Leonard Nimoy had a bit part in "THEM" (1957 Giant radioactive ants that moved to Los Angeles)