"I spent seven hours in a beauty shop...and that was for the estimate." - Phyllis Diller

Am I the only one who thinks emolument sounds like a class of ingredients in facial cream?

Took Sally to the coffee shop this morning. She really is running very well and is fun to drive.

Here's a couple more of the "smalls" I brought home from Seattle.
My folks both drank Folgers coffee brewed in a Revere Ware percolator like this one.
That pot is long since gone, probably rotted through the sides from gazillions of pots of strong coffee.

But in one of the boxes deep within the storage unit was an empty can of Folgers coffee. It may look similar but it's not the same can you can find on the grocery store shelf these days. Nope, this can had a "key" on the bottom of the can (now also long since gone) that you used to wind off a metal band that held the top on the can. That metal lid - long before plastic lids were even a dream - is still on the can.
I'm not sure what I'll use the can for. Maybe nothing but looking at and remembering the "phsssst" sound of the vacuum inside the can giving way as the key wound off the beginning of that metal strip.
Or maybe I'll keep it full of cookies.



My maternal grandfather got through the Depression as a painter. Back then paint included the now-banned lead as an ingredient. Lead made paint more durable, waterproof, and decreased drying time. It also helped create certain colors depending on the specific lead compound that was used. The lead didn't come already in the paint, it was added by the painter.
This scale was the one my grandpa used to measure out the lead he added to his paint. I'm not sure why it has foil covering the top; I'll remove that.
That lettering on the side of the scale says "Landers Postal Scale" so I guess he swiped it from a Post Office (probably not).
I'm going to make a tray that will sit on the top and use it for weighing newborn goat kids. Right now we use our bathroom scale; I weigh myself and then weigh myself holding the kid. This will be much more accurate and kinda fun.

That's about it from Baker Rd. The rest was the usual, not remarkable.
That's the way we like it.