Today I went to a junk sale. I saw a thick old ceramic bowl, blue with brown around the edge. It was full of ugly treasures. I picked at it and found some bizarre birds and needed them. I asked how much and the lady, who referred to me constantly as baby, said $1.50 for it all. Whatta bargain! So I bought it all, and this is what I got.
And people say a dollar has no value.
Well, firstly, someone had a talent with bread dough. There's two tigers, two penguins (slightly deteriorated), two angels and these lovely praying hands. Then there were plastic critters... a turkey, pig and a bunny, and a huge Astarte chick, a brown bear and a purple beaver pencil topper that something nibbled the tail on. The big find was two home-made ceramic birds, amazingly wacky birds. The pic does them no justice. An ancient toy cannon is present made from metal and a tad rusty, and an metal rocking chair, plus a lead D&D figure (I intend to eat it, lead poisoning will do me well). It's a treeant, I think. Plus I got a shell, a bell, a plastic guy's head, 6 70s fridge magnets and a stone armadillo from Mexico. Wait, there's more! I found a tiny owl candle, a glass bottle stopper, Santa's severed torso, kangaroo-ish dinosaur and a ceramic collector's thimble for Country Music Hall of Fame and a tiny flowered pitcher from Occupied Japan! And it all left my scanner spotty so I got the dust for gratis.
I tried to scan the bowl, but it just came out crappy. Use your imagination. Big bowl. The end.
Look the cannon is aiming at the bunny. Surrender now or perish, wabbit!
Look more closely at these amazing birds. They are mighty wacky.
They seem puzzled by life's passions. Or maybe they're stoned.
So next time you feel you can't get your money's worth,
send it to me. Because I can.
I got all these goodies for an additional $2. Lookit that cute cross
eyed, buck toothed bunny. Plus an ater-gator salt shaker who is sadly
missing his mate and burger shakers who are not. The nice lady who called
me Baby also gave me an Orphan Annie "Its the Hard Knock Life" coffee mug.
Wasn't she swell?
See. I still have neater stuff. Nah.
First person to send me a buck fiffy gets the plastic guy's head, Santa's severed torso and a copy of the CD Imperial Comet Hour by Mexico70. Seriously. I'd like it in foreign coins, too, ifya don't mind.