A Quiet Day

50°f/10°C, very windy, partly cloudy after thunderstorms last night.

Wild weather we're having this month! Snow, then 70° yesterday, thunderstorms last night,and high winds today. Weatherlore says that a thunderstorm in November means one of 2 things: a fertile year ahead, or a very cold winter. I think i will choose the first, but I doubt my opinion matters to the weather gods. These winds by the way, are often referred to by meteorologists as "witch winds", and the witch winds of November are known to be particularly damaging. It was just such a wind that caused the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, apparently. 

It was a quiet day around here. We were both pretty tired; picking up from the auction and a private seller,  stops at a couple thrifts, Aldi's and finally Kroger pretty much wore us out yesterday. So today, late breakfast, then I worked on identifying all those pocketknivss from the auction while Larry basically just rested. He got moving later in the day, though.

The knives were an interesting rabbit hole.  Trying to find markings on them, searching online for the exact same ones, and then sorting into piles took several hours. One pile was trash, knives that were just too damaged to be worth selling. Another was the $5 pile of pretty good but not valuable knives,  next was the $10-15 pile, and last was the best ones. Most need cleaning so I searched how to clean pocketknives and found a good tutorial. Then I had to order the right stuff to do it--penetrating oil,  wet/dry sandpaper, a brass brush. I went ahead and priced the $5 knives because I am not going to spend time cleaning those, but the rest are on hold u til the supplies come.

After that I did a few ebay listings. I found some pretty nice and fairly rare glasses at the thrift store, so I got those and a few other things listed. Here are the glasses I found:

These are cotton boll pattern by Anchor Hocking. The last sold ones I could find sold for about $180 for 6. I paid $3.59 for this set, so I am hoping for a nice profit.

This is the second set. I could not find the maker of these but they sell for about $25 for the set. Again, I got them for $3.59. Not as great a deal as the others, but that's okay. Both sets were made in the 50's.

Yesterday we stopped at a gas station, and I found some cute Pez containers to put in the stocking for 

the 2 little great-grands who live close by. The young lady working at the store said she had 5 children, well, 5 between her and her boyfriend, and all are below 5 years old! She laughed and said coming to work was a break for her! She reminded me of my granddaughter Hannah, who also has 5 now, 2 of her own and then her boyfriend's 3. Quite the juggling act with the other parents, and of course a full-time job. Whew. At least when I had my fifth child, my four oldest were in their teens and completely self-sufficient. And when those four were under 5, I was a stay-at-home mom.

We had lunch at our favorite place on Marietta, the Lafayette Hotel. While there, we got into conversation with a man who said he plays guitar and sings every day at his mother's nursing home. Every day! The residents love it--and him--and he said they have become like family to him. His mother is 91; he is retired and he really works hard on getting together a program every day. What a guy. He has sure earned his wings.

I started this post early this morning. Now here it is almost 8pm and I am finally finishing it. Larry has already gone to bed, poor guy, and the dogs are all snoozing comfortably in their favorite places.  Looks like it will be a very quiet evening to finish off a low-key day. That's all rights with me!

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