Silly

A bit stupid, admittedly, but cute, I thought. This is Rocky the roller-skating pig in a bucket with Rocky the roller-skating pig on it - picked out at the dollar section at target. He doesn't actually have roller skates on - except in the picture and he does look kinda dumb/gay in his little yellow cape but I was thinking of you while I wandered the aisles of Target and simply had to get you something. Even if it is somewhat silly.

Balls!

Somehow, I get the feeling that I'm being influenced by too many episodes of Inbetweeners. I'll be calling people bender and bell-end before long. The other thing I keep meaning to mention is that the soundtrack to Will and Simon and Co's antics sounds like a playlist on my iPod. Strange!

Anyway, back to balls - one made of polished granite, the other rubber bands. And yes, it may seem more like stuff for me but it really is for you coz I know you don't have any.

Balls, that is.

Pumpkin

Halloween is all over the place here. There's candy corn, skulls and pumpkins everywhere. There's even a Halloween shop that sells all things Halloween-ish, from witchy outfits to animated/talking figures of skeletal butlers and cat silhouettes.

I just realized that where I live is a perfect trick-or-treat paradise - totally safe for kids to roam around with lots of candy-assed grown-ups.

Anyway, thought of you and grabbed this chocolate-covered orange marshmallow in the shape of a pumpkin from the display as I was buying shaving foam - yes, even the chemist shops do the whole Halloween thing. I'll be sure to spare a passing thought for you when I munch into it on 31st ;)

(°_°)

That's meant to be a pumpkin-head, by the way, even if it does look more like the Stay-Puffed marshmallow man.

Culture

Weird, innit? The way things work. There we were discussing a trip to NYC then an hour later Tracy picks this out of a storage box. It's about 1.5 x 2.5 inches.











And if it doesn't make sense to you, wait till you see what it folds out into.














Still not sure?

It's Manhattan, silly.

Wiggly

More from the 57 boxes we have in the spare room - a Piggly-Wiggly pencil. Not a lot but something, at least. Not sure if you remember seeing Piggly-Wigglies while you were in Georgia (there weren't that many) and I have never been inside one. They're a kind of supermarket chain (I think).

There will doubtless be more bits and bobs coming out of storage so watch this space (or the space above this one, as you so kindly pointed out the last time I said - or rather, wrote - that).

NB. The corrected spelling of Flair below.

Cards

Ooops! Seems I've been neglecting the blog for a few days. It's not that I haven't got stuff. Just that I haven't really had time - what with building a website (now complete at http://www.jeddonohoe.com) and sending out crawly emails asking for work.

Anyway, I'm here now with a couple of things.

The first, a little box found in storage boxes...

... that's full of the cutest, diddy, little cards that remind me of After Eights...

... you open the card and there are some pearls of wisdom inside (not wafer-thin mints at all). Kinda like the old-school version of Flair or something.

The one above says, "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."

– Helen Keller

And a stars-and-stripes wristband. Hmmm! A bit too patriotic? Well, okay, maybe just a tad.

Dosh

There's about $15 or $20's worth of change in this bottle already. I reckon it'd hold about $300 when it's full - or maybe, that's if it's full. Anyway, I chuck my change in it whenever I get a chance so there might be a good few bucks there by the time you next come to visit. And don't leave it longer on the assumption there'll be more cash by the time you arrive. Well, actually, that's probably true, but still...

Spex

Found these in storage and, whilst they may not look that interesting, they are kinda cool to look through. Just so's you get an idea I took a piccie with my iPhone looking through one of the lenses.

Pretty neat, huh? Even if they're not that pretty.

Vamps

Well, you already saw these so I won't go on about them.

Went on a long walk yesterday (10 miles) and found this (cheap, plastic and made in China) ring on the beach. Dunno if you'll like it but you did wear the last ring I found for you. Not a very good piccie either. It's kinda cute-ish in real life. (Maybe.)

Yeah... okay... not that exciting but this may tickle your fancy. Tracy found it in her storage and suggested it go on the blog. It's a solid silver Australian dollar that'd probably fetch around US$40 if you ever wanted to sell it.

Doubtless, there'll be more stuff coming out of storage as we wade through the stacks of boxes that are currently in the spare room. Something to look forward to? I think so...