Aside from the fact that I finally had to mow the lawn today (after only a month, but who's counting?) we had a pretty nice day. I started out with my six-mile walk, stopped at the farmers market on the last leg and got some good veggies so I can implement my vegetable-friendly, low fat diet.
Then we went to the Antique Faire, which is every second Sunday under the freeway, and since it's only three blocks from the house, it seems downright unneighborly not to go. And I really scored. I got this wonderful, unfinished quilt that looks a little like a crazy quilt in small doses, but is more of a pattern quilt. I'm going to recover the window seats that are basically a moth magnet. The window seats as they are, are really wonderful, we had them made out of an oriental rug that was in kind of bad shape, but they attract moths to beat the band. This quilt is more satins and silks, and since no one sits there, it doesn't really matter if it's more fragile than the wool. Actually the wool is more fragile, because of the damn moths. Of course, a person couldn't possibly be satisfied with just one thing at the antique mall. I was kind of looking for the old lucite and bakelite buttons and stuff, but didn't find anything I really loved, and so actually didn't buy anything.
Then I saw this old a.m. radio. We used to have one on the top of our refrigerator when I was a kid and I always remember my dad listening to a show called MacElhattan in the morning. The show even had a little theme song which I think was to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy, but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, I had looked at one of these radios in NY, and they wanted $165 for it, and of course having tubes and such, it was quite heavy and not likely that I even wanted to carry it around all day in NY, much less drag it home. And here was this one for only $20. Whoopee. It only gets AM, so I will probably never listen to it, unless of course they put MacElhattan in the morning back on instead of lunatic right wing Republicans. It looks cute, though. Now all I have to do is get a 50's refrigerator to go with it. Actually, they do make new ones that have the 50's style but have separate freezing compartments and self-defrost. But I think the $20 radio is a big enough investment. Of course to get the appropriate look, I'd have to take all the magnets and notes off the refrigerator, and while that might happen for about 15 minutes, it's never going to be long term with me.
My final win of the antique show was this Elmore Hubbard (not to be confused with L. Ron Hubbard of Scientology) scrapbook. Last year we went to East Aurora NY and went to an elderhostel about Elmore Hubbard and Roycroft and early Arts and Crafts in the U.S. Elbert made a fortune telling people to live good lives and be moderate and value the arts, even though he had a long affair and fathered a child with a woman not his wife and otherwise did quite a few racy things. The scrap book is in mint condition, and was printed by Roycroft Press. I have a couple of other smaller Philistine magazines that I bought in NY which will kind of go with it on the coffee table whenever the coffee table isn't covered with tea pots, harp tuners, music and reading glasses.
The other thing I saw at the antique fair that I really liked and think I would like to put in the upstairs sunporch after we get the windows done is this cool little rattan love seat with leather seats.
But I didn't buy it today. I'm waiting to see if we EVER get these windows done.
Of course, the trip to the antique market didn't help my diet plans at all, because naturally we had to eat. And you know the kind of food is available at places like that. Actually we had a delicious pulled pork sandwich, but I doubt that it's on anybody's list of low-fat or healthy, or diet food.
Also this weekend, and also really quite close to home, so again, we had to go just to be neighborly, was the Japanese food festival. This is an annual event and fundraiser for the Buddhist church and a lot of fun as well. We had planned on skipping it because it's usually very crowded, but decided to go at the last minute. They were out of chicken teriyaki, so we ended up getting shrimp and vegetable tempura. It was really wonderful, very crispy, not greasy, but again, not on anybody's list of healthy or low-fat food. Since we got there towards the end of the three-day event I bought a couple of raffle tickets, since the first prize was $5000. Believe it or not, I didn't win anything!
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