Saturday we didn’t get a lot done… well we did do a lot but that accomplishments are pretty small… We went to the old Spudnut shop to get the Jalapeno sausage dog for breakfast… then I had some letters to mail so made it to the post office and since we were that close we stopped to tour the local antique and junk stores near the post office…
In the junk store… nothing of real interest.. although they have a complete set of the Tonka trucks like the ones Ryan had… Ryan’s are in really bad shape (they were stored outside and got bashed around a lot… but they want about $30 apiece for them… so we passed on that. Next door was the artsy shop where they take old windows and cabinets and stuff and make artsy type picture frames, pictures, improved cabinets and actually make some cabinets and use the old windows and doors to make them… interesting and some of it is pretty nice… it all has pretty nice prices as well… On the other side of the street is the Antique Mall… I had never been in there so why not today? We crossed the street and went in and found that it was a consignment type shop with various booths all over the place and on two floors at that… they had a huge amount of ….. STUFF!… a lot of it would be classed as junk but some of it is actual antiques… looking for good homes… We spent over an hour maybe more in there and did find a couple of things to purchase… since we are antiques and our plates are near antiques we got lucky and found a matching set of 10 plates, small plates, salad plates and stuff for $50… they match our set perfectly and these had not been used hardly at all. Our sets are pretty chipped up and in bad shape so we expanded our set and will take out the chipped and broken ones and use them for other things… Plant drip trays for one already… I also found a box of 6 Indian head pennies at a reasonable price so I bought all of them… But in that mall I also found a lot of of antique signs that would work well today and got pictures of some of them… those I will use here for fun…
Remember this?
We got home just before noon so we did spend some time out… I had some left over for lunch and then… poof, took a nap… strange how that can happen… When we finally got back around and figured it was dinner time we took off to town again… nothing exciting but we had a half price deal at one of the fast food places and used that up… as we finished it occurred to us that we should of gone to Perkins and tried that Mexican place? so why not go and see where it was and if they were busy… so we drove down and they were not very busy so not sure they are all that good or not but we will still have to try it at some point… then , since it was still early we drove around Perkins a bit and then back by the Territorial plaza… had seen a bunch of cars in there and checked that out but seems they must have had a family thing in the front building that they rent out but there was also some new stuff since we last drove through… they have added the Yale Train depot …
and a long car from Canada and it appears they are open during the Saturday afternoon open times… we were too late…
I went and peaked in both and found that the depot was filled with stuff so I for sure will have to make a trip down when they are open… lots of really cool old station stuff in there and the car looked pretty interesting as well
I looked it up on line and found they have pictures of it all… Perkins Territorial Park.
Well about that time I figured we could stop at McDonalds in Perkins and get a dip-cone… they must of dipped it several times as the chocolate coating was really really thick… but still on a hot day it was pretty good… then home and nothing much else but watch a bit of TV and work on some of my pictures…
Today was even slower… Curly’s for lunch and spent the afternoon working on machine guns… for the model airplanes…
In a pile they don’t look like much but hope they look better on the airplane… ha! once dry I will try to mount 2 on the current airplane and then I can get the top wing put on and start on the landing gear…
oh and one more sign from the Antique mall…
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