Tiny Minut Tiae

The mega estate sale was not this weekend. It is next weekend. So I have one more week to ponder it. Let me know if you'd like to come along. From past experiences, any estate sale promising to be the largest and most awesome estate sale ever, bombs. However, there is always an exception to the rule.

I used to garage sale on Saturday morning with my friend Chris. One morning we made it to an awesome South Austin yard sale. This was one dreamy sale. It was so awesome and dreamy in fact, we wondered if there was such a thing as a Garage Sale Forum because we were so moved to write of this once in a lifetime sale. One thing I remember coming home with was a 1940's Zenith turntable/shortwave radio console. Cosmetically it was as close to mint as you could get. Really beautiful. It was a cute piece. Never did work on it, took up space, tried to buy tubes for it and couldn't find them. They knew what they had when they sold it for $5. Here I was thinking I found gold. Memories of past garage sale purchases make me want to skip the estate sale completely and head for the farmer's market. This is cool, I feel I can already pass up this sale. I heard it was really awesome yesterday.

Tomatoes and squash are spotted in the garden. Shhhhhhh lets let them grow...

My friend found a stray chick and called me to ask what to do about it. "Keep it!", I said. What else can you do? I think they named it Cacahead. Not nice but considering it was named by her cute seven year old, it's a most endearing name. This baby chick escaped from it's family and managed to survive the heat without water, stray cats, hawks, dogs, and didn't get run over...Cacahead, tough as shit baby Leghorn.

Update: Cacahead turned out to be a really cool peachick as in peacock. He was turned over to wildlife rescue and is only a few days old. His poor seven year old owner is heartbroken.