This is a story knife from Alaska. It was used to draw pictures in the snow while the story teller maybe demonstrated something. Now that winter is here we can hunker down indoors with any number of story telling media and other entertainment. There are few estate sales between now and Christmas, but after the New Year it’s a whole new season that comes in with a blizzard of sales. Good things come to those who wait?
THE STORYTELLERS
27 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
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Carole’s Independent Limousine and Alternative Tours Company
15 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in Estate Sales, Tours, Travel Tags: Boot Sales, Estate Sales, Flea Markets, Junkin, Sales, Shopping, Tours, Travel, Treasure, Yard Sales
New car! I’m hoping to do a lot more traveling in this one. I’m so ready for a good old road trip. Though winter is coming on in Minnesota and the flea markets, yard sales and all are slowing down, in some parts of the country just south of here, the markets are still going strong. However, the estate sales go all year round. This all-wheel-drive vehicle is better to get around on those snowy days too.
This luxury Lincoln also comes with a huge back end for carrying stuff. There is certainly more room than the old Mercury, which had a big trunk as well. Let’s not forget about our friends on the Minnehaha Mile who’s shops are rescuing and re-purposing and sharing this knowledge with the world through their wonderful workshops for all ages so that our future generations may someday do away with the landfills and waste that was created during our years of mad consumerism and throw-away society. .
Hidden Treasure
27 Sep 2015 1 Comment
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A How and Where to Find It Guide to the World’s Missing Treasures!
I read this book a few pages a day while stirring my cocoa at night and repeatedly the author reminded me “If you know what it is,” or “If you can find it” and “It could be in your attic or in your basement!” Or, “Found at a garage sale!”
I had found the stone Mayan mask at a yard sale and bought it very cheap. A few years later I sold it on eBay for a nice little profit, but if only I really knew I’d have taken it to a museum and probably got an even nicer profit for it. However, I do still have this Oracle Bone. I think I will try the museum for this one. 
I am in the process of purchasing a new car for my business and am now desperately seeking ways to raise the money so I don’t have those hefty car payments. Maybe the Oracle Bone will be my saving grace and give me another chance to do something right when it comes to selling my treasures.
ROAD TRIP MINNESOTA
22 Feb 2015 1 Comment
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SONGS O’ CHEER
My Grampa he’s a-allus sayin’,
“Sing a song O’ cheer!”
And, wunst I says “What kinds them?”
He says, “the kind to hear,
‘Cause they’re the songs that Nature sings,
In ever’ bird that twitters!”
“Well, Whipperwills and doves,” says I,
“Hain’t over-cheery critters!”
“Then don’t you sing like them,” he says
“Ner guinny-hens, my dear
Ner peafowl, nuther (drat that boy!)
You sing a song O’ cheer!”
I can’t sing nothin’ anyhow;
But, comin’ home, to’rds night,
I kindo’-sorto’ kep’ a whistlin’
“Old-Bob-White!”
I’m in the midst of revamping my website and moving to another host. I’m the do it yourself sort O’ person who doesn’t always know what I’m doing, but it’s coming along. Meanwhile, I picked this little poem out of a book: “Riley songs O’ Cheer” a special find at one of the sales that nearly got tossed in the trash.
Road Trip Minnesota 