My Shell Swan

I'm participating in Show & Tell Friday over at Kelli's House. Come on over & join the fun.

Isn't she sweet? I found her at a rummage sale and I am suprised no one else had grabbed her up. I love the swoopy lines and size, not too big, not too small. The inside isn't glazed, so I don't think I would ever use her as a planter. She was made in the Phillipines and I am glad she made it here safely! I had a lot of positive comments about my swans last week, so I am going to feature them on Fridays for awhile, but I am spending most of tomorrow away, so I thought I would get this up early.

Bad Back from Boxing Books?

Or maybe wrestling the big clump of daylilies with one stubborn patch of wild honeysuckle vine out of the earth on Sunday contributed to my pain. I went to the Doctor today and am off work officially until next Tuesday. I've got my Skelaxin muscle relaxer and heavy duty Ibuprofin and some generic and mild valium to help me sleep. That is more dope than I have ever taken. No shots this time though, because we treated it before it got to the spasm stage. Thank God.

Busy Boxing Books

Really. I have been very busy putting the books in plastic bags and packing them carefully into boxes and making sure the addresses are on the right boxes. I hate it when I send a box of books to the wrong person! Then I have to haul them out to the car one or two at a time and then haul them into the Post Office and hope there isn't a line. I think I hurt my back again. I am going to put one of the those menthol pain patches on it. I had one box of 19 Kenyon Dark Hunter books go for $152 and 4 ex-library D.E. Stevenson Mrs Tim books went for over $50. All in all it was a productive week. I need to keep it up, but I won't.



Howsomever, there is a big rummage sale this Friday-Saturday put on by the local C'dale churches and then the C'dale Library book sale on Saturday. More books, I betcha. I will certainly be scarfing up any Kenyon books I see. Or Horse stories. Or Mrs. Tim.

I had a good time at CVS on Sunday, and didn't even use any ECBS. I bought three gift bags at $1.49 each. They are a cvs brand Essence of Beauty product and the sale this month is buy 3 items get 5 ECB's. The RX essentials again, I had 2 $5 manufacturers coupons and a $5 cvs coupon for them that expired on Sunday. The special was buy one, get one free. They cost $14.99, minus my $15 in coupons. The Excederin is another special this week, $1.99 each with $2 manufacturers coupons floating around, and $1 ecb's each. With my $4 off of $20 purchase coupon, I paid less than a dollar and got back $8 in ECB's. So once again, they paid me $7.50 to take this stuff home. Do you see Mica in the upper corner, trying to eat some bag ties?

Because they are cute.

Mica and Jean-Claude in a pensive moment.

Show and Tell Friday #1

I'm participating in Show & Tell Friday over at Kelli's House. Come on over & join the fun.

I love me some swans.

I am not sure how this started. I was finding McCoy pottery back in the early 80's and loving the pastel colors. The swans just started showing up in my collection with everything else, but now I have so many they have their own space. Actually, they have outgrown this particular space, and I am trying to decide where they will be moving to next. The one to the left of the center blue vase is all little sea shells. I think it has become my favorite, but I still love the tall McCoy ones in the back.

See everyone else's Show and Tell Friday and maybe add your own!

Harry is going to Canada.

My Harry Dresden books are going to Canada. They didn't do as well as I hoped, but I recouped my costs. Several of the others did better than expected. $126 worth tonight, the next bunch end on Sunday night. It is thundering again so I am shutting it down. Happy April everyone!

I have an excuse.

FOR WHY I DIDN'T BLOG YESTERDAY!

It was thundering and lightning and wet. So I shut down the computer after listing two more boxes of books. So there.

Sunday I did a trip to Aldi's and Cvs. Suprise!

Turkey tenderloins, carrots, storage containers and brown sugar for $16.34 at Aldi's.

4 softsoap spa body wash, 2 lady speedsticks, one fusion razor, 2 pkgs Glucerna snack bars, and a Mt. Dew, which somehow didn't make it into the picture, for $3.47 oop. The softsoap spa is this months free ECB special, and I grabbed them because they have a tendency to disappear after the first few days and never make it back into stock.

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Today I did my Kroger run, needing Kitty Litter.

Kitty Litter, Progresso Soup, Biscuits, Deli Meat, 3 Fuze Slenderize drinks, mustard, and sugar cookie mix for$8.47. The cashier said "Wow".