| West Plano yard sale report: the neighborhood sale
This week was a continuation of my search for end tables. But I also decided to try and find lamps for the living room. I have a pair of nice little lamps but, when I turn them on, the shade gets really hot. It looks like it's made of copper but it's really made of shell; I got them at a yard sale. Rather than look online, I decided this week to just start driving. If you drive along Spring Creek or Park or Legacy, you'll eventually see signs. The first sign I saw went into Mission Ridge Road, where I saw two or three right near each other. I said, "Oh, is this a neighborhood thing?" It turned out to be a sale with 26 houses spread out over 15 roads in this one neighborhood. They were giving out a map, with each participating house outlined, and below each house, a list of what they were selling.
A Day of Gardening, Without the Pain. Dig Longer and More ...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- A day of digging can leave you tired and sore. If your foot slips while digging, your shins may be bruised or cut on a corner of the tool. That was that type of day that led to the creation of TrenchFoot(R). "Now, the arches of my feet are not sore after digging," says Glenn Vanoni, co-inventor of TrenchFoot, available at http://www.trenchfootinc.com/ While TrenchFoot does not make the ground softer or your tools sharper, its step protects your foot from the stresses of digging. TrenchFoot is a one piece attachment that fits on most shovels, spades and forks. It attaches in seconds, without tools. The design fits over "D" and "T" handles as wide at 6 1/2 inches as well as straight handled tools up to 1 3/4 inches thick.
Town Hall, New Braintree, Mass
Furniture: Mission oak settee and 4 side chairs, all w/pegs; petite oak icebox; oak podium dated 1854; fancy BW Davenport desk; oak hall tree w/seat; cherry hall seat; 4 section oak barrister bookcase; oak princess dresser; Larkin 1 door bookcase; tall oak chest w/mirror and serpentine front; brass & iron bed; hanging corner shelf w/heads; oak folding desk and bookcase; BW chairs; rocker w/lions; brass and marble stand; Arts & Crafts footstool; wooden lounge chair; Edison Home phonograph; Amberola; 39 inch horn; cradle; tables; etc.
Wicker, Rustic & Patio: 3 piece orig finish Bar Harbor set; orig finish Heywood Wakefield wingback rocker; 4 rolled arm chairs; orig finish sewing stand; Bar Harbor sofa; floor lamp; plus more wicker; Old Hickory child's rocker; unusual deck chair; black boy lawn sprinkler; bearskin rug; deer head; duck decoys by Harris, E V, Savage, Wray & Burrell; plus others; vintage soapbox derby racer; folk art club w/carved Indian; rare eel lamp; lawn rabbit; wrought iron stands; rustic chest; child's wheelbarrow; porch rockers; benches; etc.
The true nature of modern loss
How novel, and how ancient, the world's first techno-massacre looked. Blacksburg, inspired by Hollywood and packaged for YouTubers, was as modern as MySpace and as old as wrath. As the religious ranting in the script Cho Seung-hui sent to NBC implied, there is nothing very new in the iconography of butchery. Unsurprisingly, the Old Masters did not spend their time depicting the hell of a grumbling appendix. From Ghirlandaio's Slaughter of the Innocents to Goya's Disasters of War, the history of art is littered with spree-killing. Add the psychopathy and remove the genius and Cho's home movie is Titian in QuickTime video clips. The only question is what response violence provokes in the viewer. When conflict was first photographed, it was assumed that brutal images would hasten peace. Now the opposite is true.
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