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[hallerlake]

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Score!

It's been in the antique mall in Fife for three years. We finally decided to make an offer. Got it for just over half the asking price.

 

[hallerlake]

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LOVE IT!
What a find!

Price????????????????????????????????????? It is exquisite!!!!!!!!!! Does it work?
And a full size pic would be great!!!!!!!!!

And WHERE did you find it???

The works are there, but it freezes up after a few seconds. It probably needs cleaning. It's been hanging in the antique mall in Fife for three years. Mr. H thinks it may be by the same carver as another clock we have. The dealer wanted $500 for it. Mr. H offered her $200. She countered with $300. I suggested $250. She countered with $265. We accepted. I learned to bargain in Korea. it comes in handy in antique malls.

 

[justbugged]

It snowed at my house.

It was a good thing that I got the rest of the plants into the greenhouse. The temperature gauge in the greenhouse is reading 48 degrees. I really need to plug in the heater into the thermal socket. I just tried to get it pulled in. I can't reach the main outlet with all the plants in the gh. I am going to have to wait and have DH help me. It doesn't help that I have the light in the gh pulled in, and the timer for the light in the girls coop. They quit laying and I am now scared that I may need to buy store eggs.

The zucchini bread smells fabulous. I made one loaf, and 18 regular size muffins, plus 12 mini muffins. I must have tweaked the recipe enough to make more than it said it would make.

 

[justbugged]

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Price????????????????????????????????????? It is exquisite!!!!!!!!!! Does it work?
And a full size pic would be great!!!!!!!!!

And WHERE did you find it???

The works are there, but it freezes up after a few seconds. It probably needs cleaning. It's been hanging in the antique mall in Fife for three years. Mr. H thinks it may be by the same carver as another clock we have. The dealer wanted $500 for it. Mr. H offered her $200. She countered with $300. I suggested $250. She countered with $265. We accepted. I learned to bargain in Korea. it comes in handy in antique malls.

Great job on bargaining. It's a great skill to have. Most of the time I will ask for a discount if I think I have a chance. I have had a few clerks get nasty, but for the most part, I can get some sort of discount. I did it a Home Depot, for some insulation. There were 2 sheets of the stiff foam insulation sheets that had damaged sides. I asked if they would discount them for me. They did, and both me and the girls are happy.

The works are supposed to be cleaned yearly. I learned that about 8 years after we bought our clock. It isn't cheap to have the clocks clean professionally. The cuckoo clock that I bought in 1982, when I was in Austria. The clock now needs a whole new clock works. DH can replace it for me, as soon as I buy the works. It just hasn't been a priority so far.

 

[justbugged]

The zucchini muffins are delicious.

 

[justbugged]

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I said it was the MOM as soon as I saw the story on the news. I mean come on !!!!! what mother would leave a kid in the car by themselfs????

My thoughts exactly! Isn't it criminal these days? If she really did that they should have arrested her on the spot. I never saw if the news said if the car was broken in to so do they think he was supposedly stolen or let himself out and wander off? I think she had a family member from her country come and get him and take him back so her ex couldn't get him. I think her ex is just liking the publicity. A chance to have people feel sorry for him and he's liking having his face on TV. He's playing the whole thing. I don't really believe she left him in the car. She may be lying but it's also possible she's doing what she thinks is best for her son which could be why she's not talking. Didn't she take her daughter with her to get gas? Have they questioned her?

Somewhere I heard that little girl said that her brother was in the car wrapped in a blanket. But she could have been told to say that. I do believe that both parents are not behaving well. The husband is working really hard to discredit the wife. I'm with you, I think that the little guy has been sent to family in the Ukraine. One of the news stations interviewed the mothers younger brother, and he wasn't concerned at all about the little boy. I do sort of understand why the police haven't arrested her yet. So far the cops can't prove that the little boy was even in the car. If that is the case, the mother is only guilty of lying to the police. She can't be charged with anything until they find the boy. As long as she says a stranger took him, the father can't claim let alone prove custodial interference by the wife. I find it interesting that the fight seems to be all about the boy, and not the little girl. I feel for both the kids. They both have lost their parents at this point.

 

[justbugged]

First snow of the winter of 2011/2012.

I guess that Buckley got even more snow than Enumclaw did.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Well more excitement than I like to have inthe morning. Not only do we have a good couple more inches of snow.....

....but as I am waking up.....shaking and loud boom.

We just had an EARTHQUAKE!!!!!! Scared the H*** out of me.

Per news and FB : At 5:09 a.m. : 4.0 earthquake, 7 miles SW of Riverside (which is about 7 miles NW of Omak). 3 miles deep. Felt in Moses Lake, Grand Coulee, Tonasket, Oroville.

RFF said it shook her whole house.

Okay, even though I am still shaking (scared me) I gotta get read for work.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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WOW Is that a mid 1950's IHC truck? She's a beauty just waitin to go to work.

No, it's a 49 IHC dump truck, and is part of My Cousin The Biker's rusting collection (although it was Dad's before that, and Archie Ferguson's originally).

(I learned to drive on that monster, and that may be part of the reason I've never had a driver's license).

I'm going to edit in a better photo, wait a sec.

Very cool looking truck

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Yeah, we were already awake because Audrey has been sick (again). She woke up at 4am, ate and then did not want to go back to sleep. It shook the entire house. I was about to yell at DH to stop thrashing in the bed...and then I yelled, "EARTHQUAKE!" He scooped up Audrey and we ran to the center of the house....under the main beam...not sure where else to go in a 1987 double wide!

Although we spoke about it more after and decided the laundry room because it was just redone with 2 x 4' construction (only part of the house).