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November 19, 2009 07:58 PM EST --
The Aquila neighborhood lies west of downtown Minneapolis, and it has a sale every year. Last year, Janie and I tried to walk from sale to sale, but they were distributed just thinly enough to frustrate . . .
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November 19, 2009 07:49 PM EST --
(continued from Part 1 ) <--- click on that blue thing to see part 1
A draw knife so sharp you coud shave with it
price - $2
sold
What anyone in the city needs a draw-knife for I don't . . .
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November 07, 2009 02:51 PM EST --
I've always been somewhat compulsive. I don't see that changing. The effort needed (possibly therapy, meds, God-knows-what) it would take to remedy this supposed shortcoming . . .
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November 06, 2009 06:18 PM EST --
Back on August 1st we were headed up to the Brainerd Lakes area to visit my inlaws, but we couldn't help but check out a "neighborhood" sale taking place the full length of 50th St. in the Nokomis . . .
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October 24, 2009 08:27 PM EDT --
When I was little I was an able kid, more than adequate to hold my own with the other kids in the small mining town where I grew up. My friend Nick encouraged me not to let other kids . . .
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September 29, 2009 07:35 PM EDT --
Janie and I paid a visit to Warner Nature Center, where our friends Bruce and Debbie Buckmaster volunteer to feed captive birds. These birds have either been so injured as to not be able to hunt . . .
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September 24, 2009 06:29 PM EDT --
I talk to myself. I could say I "got it from" my mother, but why make it so simple as that? Just because her audible inner dialogues were part of both my nature and nurture does not . . .
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September 21, 2009 06:35 PM EDT --
While delivering a load of merchandise to my mom's shop in Colorado, we decided to drop in on one of Jack's semi-annual auctions at the Montrose fairgrounds. I used to go to events held by Jack's . . .
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September 16, 2009 10:48 AM EDT --
There were no big neighborhood yard sales the weekend of July 25th, but the South Oak Hill neighborhood in St. Louis Park had about 25 homes participating, so we more or less broke our rule about avoiding . . .
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September 10, 2009 10:21 AM EDT --
Pardon my long haitus from posting Would You Buy This or Not. I took some time to think hard about life and reassess my priorities. Believe it or not, yard sales moved up a couple notches . . .
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September 08, 2009 10:36 AM EDT --
Perhaps you wonder what it is Janie and I do with all that stuff we buy at yard sales.
We do keep a lot of it - all our clothes and stereo equipment and furnishings and cookware - anything that . . .
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July 21, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
The Minikhada Heights neighborhood is right on the border. Downtown is full of diversity and creativity, the suburbs are what they are (and there's no point on elaborating). This neighborhood . . .
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June 26, 2009 08:41 AM EDT --
At a yard sale in North Minneapolis, which I more often hear pronounced NordEast, I stepped out of the car and heard a bird in the tree. I asked what type, and they said a Peregrine Falcon. . . .
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June 24, 2009 09:34 AM EDT --
Last year Janie and I showed up for a neighborhood yard sale in the Wedge neighborhood of Minneapolis, but we saw no sale, so we moved on. This year, Janie had to work on Saturday, and I went to . . .
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June 21, 2009 02:10 PM EDT --
There is no mojo.
Believe in his touch, her scent;
The heart will follow.
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June 21, 2009 12:45 PM EDT --
In the greater scheme of things, encompassing the known, the unknown, the imagined, the unknowable - it occurs to me there lies one truth tha
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June 20, 2009 08:35 AM EDT --
Janie and I got up plenty early last Saturday, and were able to lounge around a while before heading out. As we looked down the street, speculating on the lives of people walking down the sidewalk, . . .
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June 17, 2009 08:43 AM EDT --
Janie and I buy metal at yard sales for scrap , and this is a tutorial passing on some of my experience. I will address each type of metal in turn, both precious and non-precious. . . .
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June 10, 2009 08:44 AM EDT --
The community of Bayport, Minnesota yielded up a very pleasant surprise this last Friday. Home to Andersen Windows, the community has a very interesting demographic. The company has been . . .
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June 06, 2009 07:43 PM EDT --
On May 30th Janie and I had several community yard sales to choose from.
The suburb of Burnsville, Minnesota was having a huge and very tempting sale, with somewhere between 150 and 200 sales, . . .
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