Hooray for Presents!

[scottobear]

On the pleasant surprise side of today -

Sappho got me all sorts of cool goodies for my birthday!

In a Dragon Tales Bag, to boot!

• Time Eyewitness: 150 Years of Photojournalism in paperback, The stuff from 1880 to 1920 is especially neat.


• A bunch of gray and green army men.


• A giant size copy of mad magazine.


• A jar of gravel and fossils from the peace river, including a nifty ray's tooth, and bit of turtle shell. The stuff from the river is so rich with fossils you can just sift through a handful and come back with a tiny shark's tooth or the like. A very nifty, and thoughtful gift. I'm a big fan of the Peace River.


• A chip the cat beanie baby.. (Newt will adore that!)


• A third-hand Electronic Hand-Held Trivial Pursuit -- The Best of Genus Edition... She didn't want it, and neither did her mom. But when folks think trivia, they think Scotto!


• A pack of Big Red Gum is it my breath?


• Many Packets of Pez Candy.


• Two cool rubber lizards (about 2" long), that will fight well with the army men, or be treated cruelly by Newt.
• Charles Kuralt's American Moments - Hardcover. I've not dug too deeply into this one yet, but I really liked his spots "On the Road" and on "Sunday Morning".

Hmm... Charles Kuralt says something strangely appropriate.

There is a rhyme by Clarence Day which says what I want to say. "Farewell my friends, farewell and hail, I’m off to seek the Holy Grail. I cannot tell you why. Remember, please, when I am gone, ‘twas aspiration led me on. Tiddly widdly, tootle-lou, all I want is to stay with you. But here I go."

Goodbye.

Oddly prophetic synchronicity, there. Goodbye, January. Goodbye Year of the Horse... Goodbye, Moon. Goodbye to much of what is behind us now.

Hello to the New!

Comments

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

Ooo thoughtful goodies and your birthday! I'm glad you said something -- I miss the birthday emails that we used to get. :P

I wish I could peek at your fossil finds!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'll take pictures! :)

Yeah, I miss the Birthday alerts, too... at least we have that birthday page, but it's so awkward to check it frequently enough!

[edbook.livejournal.com]

If you like Charles Kuralt's work, you'll also like William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways...

I missed your birthday"""" HB 2U

Peace

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

My birthday isn't until tomorrow! :) Those presents were a preemptive strike because I wouldn't see 'em again until afterwards.

I'll check out Highways.