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April 10, 2006
Stage #2
After having heard again and again from Dad about how he had "messed up all of our work cleaning up last week" we were expecting disaster. In fact, it didn't look much messier, and a lot of stuff had gotten sorted out. We were pleased. Though, not entirely optimistic:
We used one end of the room as our staging/triage area for items to go off to auction:
(Dog not included)
It ended up leaving a healthy bit of open space in the middle of the room, and suddenly progress had been made.
One of the coolest things we found this week were a bunch of old comic books of Dad's. They are mostly from the "Illustrated Classics" series (I would say mid '40s or so) - a bunch of novels rewritten in comic book cliff's notes form. We were never allowed to read them as kids (since we hadn't read the real books), so they've always held a great mystique. Now that I've got Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment, Oliver Twist and Treasure Island under my belt, I'm reading those suckers with a vengeance. The rest, apparently, Dad is going to keep under lock and key until I do my homework.
Posted by ribbu at April 10, 2006 09:18 PM
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i want the cool black chair slighlty to the left in the background of the last picture. . . . . . . aaah never mind. Then i would have to come down and pick it up and it would be a weekend so you would be there and i would feel obliged to do some lifting and so forth and probably would throw out my back and have to be hospitalized (i dont care if that is spelled with a z or not, i really like z's) and would miss bill's big to do on whatever that holiday is that is the official start of summer even though most kids still have on avg 7 days of school left afterwards which is esp annoying because they end up being part of 4 day weeks and you just know no one is really doing any work on a 4 day week with less than 7 days of school left (can you tell i have issue with this?!) but actually its more the fact i would have to spend $60 in gas (stupid gas prices edging up again - they thought i wouldnt notice but i did) yikes! i think i had too much coffee or something. I wish someone would pay me to rant like this, that would be sweet!
Posted by: ming at April 11, 2006 04:14 PM
Weehoo! I always wondered where those classic comics got off to. Hang on to those because if the ban's lifted I'm ready to have at them!
Posted by: snikes at April 12, 2006 11:46 PM