Catchin Up . . .

I recently read somewhere that Candy Crush has been downloaded 500,000,000 times.  I'm not one of them, in case you were wonderin . . . Does anyone play Farmville any more?  

I've been bloggin five years.  December 20, 2008 was my first post.  This is post 866.  That's a lot of ramblin on about nothin.  I'll let you decide if I'm gettin any better at it.

I've been seein an ad in the local newspaper from a maple syrup company.  They want to lease your maple trees.  I've never heard of leasing trees, but it kinda makes sense.  The syrup company can get the sap it needs with probably little upkeep of the wood lots and individual trees.  

Been lookin for a couple specific sized glass lids.  The thrift stores don't get a lot of new stuff this time of year.  I did come across a couple of nice brand name baseball gloves for a total of three bucks.  Didn't expect to find anything like that this time of year.  Another month or so and I will be listing my collection.  You just never know . . .  Oh, and I'm still lookin for lids. 

Attended an auction last weekend.  Lot of really nice stuff.  Must have been a hundred or so rings and lots of other jewelry.  It wasn't all the costume type jewelry.  Some of it had a fair amount of gold content.  There were three 'candle stick' type telephones.  One went for over $200.  I don't think I've ever seen a candle stick phone at this kind of auction.  There was an electric log splitter. I don't think the auctioneer ever saw one before.  They decided it would do a good job of cracking walnuts.  

A house was sold at auction too.  I was standin near the guy who got it.  Before the bidding went very far, one of the assisting auctioneers come over to keep him calm.  He couldn't stand still and there were more than a couple beads of sweat on his forehead.  He wasn't really listenin to the auctioneer closely.  He kept wantin to bid against himself.  I'm glad he got it.  

I wanted the mounted deer head.  I wanted the antlers for the pens I make.  It was so old that the fur was comin off.  The bidding passed my limit before I could get my hand up.  That sort of surprised me.  A 10-11 yr. old kid wanted it and his dad paid $25 for it.  Oh well, ya win some and ya lose some.