Saturday, July 29, 2006
One dolla' where?
Baked. And not in the fun way, either.
This afternoon Caro and I attended my third and her fourth auction in a 10 day period. Yep, when an addict falls off the wagon, they fall hard.
But today's was the RE-2 school district's auction, and you just CAN'T skip a train wreck like that. The last time I went to one, I bought 52 tons of sandstone blocks, and ALMOST won a human skull, so you can see the appeal.
If you had been wanting classroom size blackboards or any one of several hundred desks (in a dozen styles) or old outmoded tech gear, you would have been totally set here. I didn't get everything I wanted (there was an alphabet carpet I swear was in Mike's first grade classroom!), in many cases because I did not want to haul it home. But we got a cute little oak card catalog, a small filing cabinet to replace one of mine that is falling apart, a book cart, a VERY neat Eames era mid-century modern chair which I will take a picture of to show you tomorrow, a few other little odds and ends and nearly Dreamcloud's full hatch capacity of BOOKS. Three-fourths of which will end up donated to the Friends of the Library sale, but the remainder are good candidates for resale. Which is the name of the game, in the end. The thrill of evading heat stroke yet again is just a bonus.
This afternoon Caro and I attended my third and her fourth auction in a 10 day period. Yep, when an addict falls off the wagon, they fall hard.
But today's was the RE-2 school district's auction, and you just CAN'T skip a train wreck like that. The last time I went to one, I bought 52 tons of sandstone blocks, and ALMOST won a human skull, so you can see the appeal.
If you had been wanting classroom size blackboards or any one of several hundred desks (in a dozen styles) or old outmoded tech gear, you would have been totally set here. I didn't get everything I wanted (there was an alphabet carpet I swear was in Mike's first grade classroom!), in many cases because I did not want to haul it home. But we got a cute little oak card catalog, a small filing cabinet to replace one of mine that is falling apart, a book cart, a VERY neat Eames era mid-century modern chair which I will take a picture of to show you tomorrow, a few other little odds and ends and nearly Dreamcloud's full hatch capacity of BOOKS. Three-fourths of which will end up donated to the Friends of the Library sale, but the remainder are good candidates for resale. Which is the name of the game, in the end. The thrill of evading heat stroke yet again is just a bonus.
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