It's a beauty! Looks to me like a little knife! It's sharp, too, but Hick swears that it's a letter opener. Looks like he took the picture of it on the hood of his Gator. I don't know if you can see all the detail, but it has a wooden handled, which is wrapped with wire to attach the blade. Hick found it at the big flea market by the casino, and it cost him $1, which I am NOT reimbursing him!
Don't worry that Hick is spending his junking money on me. He still has plenty to lavish on himself. Like THIS treat he picked up on Saturday.
It's a parking meter that he got at a yard sale over by the dead mouse smelling post office. It cost him $1. Who could turn down a parking meter for $1? I didn't ask him if it's full of quarters. Looks like he posed this one in the back of his TrailBlazer.
Hick's also proud of his new wardrobe addition, a pair of $5 overalls from the auction Friday.
The main selling point was the fact that they are ALREADY HEMMED to an inseam of 28". And the second bonus is that they're lined. So I guess they can be his winter overalls. Of course Hick calls them his "bibs". Looks like the bibs got posed on the trunk of the Toronado.
I don't covet Hick's treasures. But there IS one thing he found yesterday that makes me green with envy.
That's TWO QUARTERS! When we got home from the casino mid-afternoon, Hick went over to the BARn to putter around. He sent me this text:
"Two quarters laying in gravel by train shed"
Yep! On Shackytown Boulevard, on the main roadway in front of the Railroad Car shed and the Fishing Lair shed...he found these two quarters. That equals the amount I've found in pennies, and Hick found it all at once! PLUS, he has that penny he found in the freight container last week. How fair is THAT? Hick is one cent ahead of me in found money!
Oh, wait! I'm not counting my dimes and the two one-dollar bills that I found earlier this year. Whew! That's a relief. I'm still in the lead.
Plus...I got a letter opener for free.
I don't know what you would do with a parking meter, but somehow I really like it!!
ReplyDeleteI'd put it by my favorite reclining chair to charge anyone who wanted to take it from me.
I don't know what Hick is going to do with a parking meter, either. But like he said, "For a dollar, you can't pass it up!"
DeleteHe'd better not put it on the La-Z-Boy!
That letter opener probably has some history to it. And tell Hick to check the pockets of his bibs for baby mice.
ReplyDeleteHick got the letter opener at the big flea market by River City. He said two old ladies had a table, and they wanted a dollar for it. I can't believe he didn't ask more about it.
DeleteHe'd better not hang his bibs in the BARn like he did his coveralls. That's where the mice moved in. He had a jacket hanging on a nail in the garage, and mud daubers made a home on it.
Two quarters at once! Maybe they fell out of the parking meter :)I found a five cent piece yesterday and thought of you.
ReplyDeleteThat letter opener is a beauty. I used to have one like a mini samurai sword, it vanished one day without a trace, so I know it probably went to the local pawn shop like any silver cutlery I had that also vanished whenever hubby #1 needed beer money.
If the quarters fell out of the parking meter, they had to jump over the back tailgate of the Gator, because Hick puts his stuff from the car to the Gator to drive it to the BARn. I'll ask if he put the parking meter in one of his shacks instead. That COULD explain it!
DeleteSorry about the loss of your letter opener and silver! I tried my letter opener tonight, and it worked great!
I am also the proud (?) owner of a parking meter!!
ReplyDeleteThat means you are JUST LIKE HICK!!!
DeleteOkay. Not identical. But you might want to start checking your pockets for baby mice.
That is one sharp letter opener. I am having computer issues and my tech son must be ignoring my texts for help. I am afraid this laptop may just be gasping for breath .....
ReplyDeleteIt's sharper than some of my knives! You can be sure I won'd loan it to the "real fork" gal at our next family get-together!
DeleteI hope your laptop gets an inhaler or an oxygen tent...