Still deadlining this week — on every day but Wednesday when I snuck away with girlfriends for an orgy of junque shopping. So still only “lite” posting. But I’m working on another Big, Heavy Tome of a Thought, which I’ll probably drop onto the blog with a floor-shattering thud next week.
In the meantime …
- It’s so weird how we just take news like this for granted now.
- “Today you were lucky, but you will have to be lucky always. We only have to be lucky once.” Why the IRA was successful and Al Quaeda not, according to a very humble Gary Brecher. (Not often do you hear a pundit admit to having once been a dumb-ass.) A guide to guerrilla warfare. Tip o’ hat to S.
- “There’s no going back. … There is no fear in my heart. I’ve passed the point of no return. I only hope that if I am stopped, the movement continues on the right path without me.” Speaking of guerrilla warfare of a more modern kind …
- You know how people keep saying the SteriPEN is the most amazing water purification device except that it requires batteries? Well, get a load of this: the SteriPEN Sidewinder Hand-Powered UV Water Purifier. Elegant.
- The Orange Jeep Dad is having a contest. Which is also a clever way to get readers to promote his blog for him. Since it involves Facebook, I’m not entering. But the prizes are nice and there’s a charming chutzpah to the notion. BTW, one of the prizes is Patrice Lewis’s The Simplicity Primer. I’m waiting for my own copy now and hope to review it soon. You may know Patrice from her Rural Revolution blog.
Finally, I told a (male) friend about one of my junque-shop purchases from the other day and he double-spotted-dog-dared me to post a picture of it. Here goes:
Yes. It’s a teapot. With a red cap in its mouth (for heaven knows what reason). The head comes off for filling, which the artist didn’t seem to understand is a really gross idea. Gross in a clever sort of way, you know. But gross.
(Perhaps not as gross as this, though.)
You may remember a while back when I posted photos of another … um, uniquely charming dog-themed kitchen item found at a church garage sale. I’ve been intending to send that thing off to the nice Canadian lady whose children would live to use it as a condiment dish for their hot dogs. But I dunno. I just might end up becoming an unintentional collector of dog kitch instead. (Sorry, nice Canadian lady.)
But I haven’t gone overboard yet. I refrained from purchasing the matching salt and pepper shaker set that was on the shelf next to the TeaFido.
First I have to say that the dog teapot is way too cool. In my garage sale expectations I too have found things that are like that. BTW you may want to try and catch a show called American Pickers on the History channel.
http://www.history.com/shows/american-pickers
One little thing about the hand cranked SteriPEN, it takes 90 seconds of hand cranking to work. Have you ever tried to hand crank a radio for 90 seconds to charge it? It is a real pain in the butt. Personally I use a Platypus Gravity Filter when I go camping and it works great.
http://www.amazon.com/Platypus-07014-GravityWorks-Filter/dp/B00453R308
The thing I like the most is that there is a lot less work and it will also take out all the crud at the same time.
Mike
woo hoooo! spot the pot rocks!
That Dog Pot rocks.
I bought a ceramic cat gravy pticher at a charity auction a while back-the gravy comes out the cat’s mouth-kinda gross-a cat spewing gravy on your breakfast..
I suppose the sterilizer uses UV LEDs, which use very little current, so it’s probably easy to crank. In a pinch, I wonder of those ultraviolet counterfeit money detectors would work?
There you go Claire,
We warned you about filling your new house up. Looks like you made a good start. : )
Love the teapot, but the spotted dog towel holder does get the prize for gross.
You should of sprung for the salt and pepper shakers too.
The wind up Steri-pen is a good idea, including a small PV recharge kit to go with the battery operated one would work pretty good too.
Ok, that teapot is unique, I gotta admit…..and Jim B. was reading my mind….
Okay I’ll admit it took me a minute to realize that the spout was it’s paw and not something else. I was in a shop not long ago that had a bunch of…anatomical…teapots fasioned after people and various animals. Gag gifts and whatnot. At first glance I thought you had actually bought one!
Winston,
Somehow, I don’t think Claire is “that” kind of girl.