Sunday’s Foary to FotL Book Sale

Today’s trip was much less expensive. 46 books, mostly paperbacks, for $18.00.

Unfortunately, nothing of a nice anthropological or historical nature. All the history books were focused on American politics and history, and the anthropology books were all dinosaurish.

Only 1 cookbook today, and it was equally gardening and cookery – the Moosewood Kitchen Garden Cookbook.

The rest were old herbals, gardening books, and a nice armload of paperback fiction.

Sorry, skydancerlilitu, nothing on Mesopotamia, or anything even remotely in the region. I’m afraid Oklahoma is amazingly provincial in discarded books.

There was precious little on the occult as well, even among the “old books” section.

I did manage to add another volume to my “Man, Myth, and Magic” encyclopedia set. My set is almost complete now. Maybe next year, they’ll have the last few volumes I need.

FotL Book Sale

The results of our trip to the Friends of the Library Book Sale netted 90 books for $57.00. Most of these are hard cover books with jackets. This is the stack of books, with Itzl among them to show just how many books there are. Each of the 4 stacks of books is taller than he is.

We’ll go back tomorrow to check out the other room of books.

Now, I need to buy a book shelf for them.

And laughterdance? Two of those books had your name on them and belong to you.

Spring Fever

We went spring shopping today – the hardware store for screws and metal glues and wood glues to repair the lawn furniture that was bent and warped by the winter weather, and the garden store to see what bulbs, seeds, and plants were out already.

I scored the right screws (yay!) and got the arches in the front yard repaired. The gazebo in back will have to wait a few days. It’s going to require two people to work on it and we have to coordinate schedules.

The garden store was woefully empty. I guess it’s too early for them. My yard, however, is ready to grow. I have dandelions up and wild plantain and the daffodils are shooting up and the irises. Thelavedner is in bud along with the roses. My sage is greening back and the rosemary is thickening up. The horsetails are already hip high. The mints have little leaves peeking up. Even the basil is sending up a tiny shoot or five.

My redbud will soon be covered in yummy red buds. Two weeks. I’m sure it will be two weeks before I’m munching on red buds again.

I know we’re getting more cold weather, but the worst for the season is over.

Even Itzl is agitating to go outside and play. He’s being neglectful of his duties and whines at me that he wants out. He’s restless and not very focused unless he’s dressed. At least his training holds when he has clothes on.

He’s also determined to not let me out of his sight for a nanosecond.

We were in the parking lot at the hardware store, and I asked Chantria if she wanted to go to the garden center with me. Itzl immediately jumped up and leaped into my arms so I wouldn’t leave him behind. Never mind that we were already in the car, and he was with us, and we’d already gone to one place. He was freaked out that I might leave him behind.

Silly boo.

So we went to the garden center with him, then to the novelty store to see what last minute Mardi Gras goodies they might have (voodooo doll bead necklaces!).

Then, I drove Chantria down to where her new job is, to show her how to get there and some good eating places that are hidden, tucked away in places downtown. She will be working just a couple of blocks away from me, and a couple of blocks away from laughterdance. I am almost exactly in the middle there.

Then we drove through a few neighborhoods near by so she could see what they were like before she started house hunting among them.

Itzl was utterly content because he was with me the whole time.

When we got home, he ran around like a maniac outside while I repaired the arches and other garden structures out front.

Now, he’s hoping to be rewarded for good behavior with a piece of King Cake. I think he remembers it from last year.

Laptop

OK, I did it.

I bought my very first laptop, a Toshiba Satellite. One of the bottom of the line models because really, all I wanted it for was to do writing and check email when I’m not at home. With rebates, special discounts, and all, it cost me just under $300.00 – which was most of my tax return.

It’s got Vista on it, which isn’t near as logical or intuitive as previous versions of Windows. They’ve renamed things, too, which certainly does nothing for making it quick to learn. The claim that it is closer to a Mac is just plain silly.

I have to figure out how to uninstall a bunch of the crap that came pre-loaded on it. What do I want with MS Money, for instance?

I installed Skype on it, too, so I can call out if I have a local connection. I’ll need to get a headset for it.

Bargains

I was at the store to buy trash bags and had to pass the clothing racks to get there. Some skirts I’d been eyeing since last spring were on sale for half the lowest marked price. The lowest marked price was $5.00. I bought 4. Then I saw the velvet jackets that were previously $60.00 on sale for the same price as the skirts. They only had black and burgundy left, so I bought one of each. And to complete the wardrobe, there was this beige silk tuck-pleated mandarin collared blouse and another beige smooth knit tunic with darker beige embroidery, also the same price. For $20.00, I bought almost an entire wardrobe of clothes.