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Original: 4/6/2008 10:03 PM
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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Big Changes In The JohnPierre Household

 Be forewarned..."big changes" is a relative term. Big change number one is the fact that I am no longer a collector of Tillamook County postcards. I met with the buyer (that I spoke of in my last entry) on Thursday and he bought part of my collection. If all goes as planned, he will be buying more in July and the final portion in September. He is waiting to cash in some CDs. When I added up what I would want for all of them, it added up to a handsome sum--more than I was expecting. I thought he would balk at the total, but he didn't. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that nothing comes up between now and then to spoil the deal. Yesterday I deleted all the related eBay searches from the bookmarks on my computer. These are a couple dozen searches that I have been doing at least once a week (without fail) for almost ten years now. My main "Tillamook" search I must have done thousands of times. I seem to be a serial collector... coins and baseball cards as a kid, then Beatles (and other) records starting in college, then architectural plan books and magazines, then photos/postcards. I sold all my sports cards years ago and all my Beatles records on eBay about 7 or 8 years ago. I am still collecting my house postcards. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to go to the postcards show in Portland in two weeks. Big change number two is the establishment of a workshop in my garage. This was done in two phases. Phase one was selling some of my extra furniture which I did a couple weeks ago. There is a relatively new vintage modern resale store in Eugene and one of the owners came by and bought a bunch of stuff from me. Last Sunday, phase two--I cleaned up my garage and bought a few power tools at Sears. Half my garage houses my car and the other half had been set up as a work shop with a work bench along one wall, but had never been empty enough to use for such a purpose since I moved in. I bought an inexpensive table saw and miter saw and a few days ago a palm sander. I have them all set up now and put them to good use today recreating the trim and sills around my newly installed old kitchen window. Of course I could have and should have done this a long time ago. I was just a bit intimidated by tools and thought buying a workshop full of tools would be too expensive and never pay for itself. As usual, our taste of Spring a few weeks ago has been followed by week after week of cold, wet weather. My poor magnolia blooms have been snowed on, rained on, blown on, frozen on and today hailed on. I am SO ready for some warm, dry weather!!
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That's a lot of changes. I wish I could control my DVD collecting.
Posted 4/6/2008 10:35 PM by titus_bigglesworth Xanga True Member Xanga Premium Member - reply

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I like Tillamook cheese, is that the same Tillamook?

I will admit that I was initially attracted to this blog because of your profile pic. It was clear that we had at least mid-century modern in common. I wish I lived closer. I would have loved to see what you sold to the vintage shop.

For me, my addiction [if you will] is Heddon fishing lures from Dowagiac Michigan. I only collect one model and have most of the colors spanning 60 years. Took a lot of e-baying though [unfortunately. I would have preferred trolling through the stores, but many were going belly-up thaanks in part to e-bay]. I don't think I'll even get a return on them, so I just enjoy looking at them.

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Yep, that IS the same Tillamook. I didn't realize the cheese had made it so far East--historically, it is more of a West Coast thing.
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About Tillamook cheese, I haven't seen any here yet. Of course, we are way more east than the Chicago area, and there's a border to complicate things up. We do hear a lot about Oregon though, like recently when there was a case of euthanasia being talked about here. Oregon's reputation seems to be centered around quality food products (that Japanese cake I posted about is a good example; when people start to copy you, or use your reputation, you know you're not like all the others ) but before that, on its advanced and humanistic approach with regards to human moral issues.

I collect things that should not be collected, like pay slips and utilities bills and a bunch of other similar papers, like since forever, and plastic bags from my travels, to other countries or to the corner grocery store. Nothing that could be sold on the internet unless I would suddenly become immensely dead after having been immensely famous, something which is also immensely improbable (the famous part, about the rest, I don't know)
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