Monthly Archives: September 2016

Calling Collection

Jake The Rotten Dog & I have taken our morning walk and have collected over 6,000 steps already. I’ve collected 6K in steps. If he had a Fitbit, it might have to measure leaps of joy at chasing dragonflies. So yeah, we got in about 2.7 miles. Not our 3.25 from yesterday, but not too shabby nonetheless.

While on our jaunt, we discovered some of our neighbors cattle. Looks like part of his collection has walked away from the rest of the herd.

Did I just call steps & cattle collections? Why, yes I did. It’s a loose definition of the word, but I think it still has merit. After all, I want to amass 10K steps for today and feel my Fitbit buzz and tell me “good job”! Collection is about gathering, is it not?

As for the cattle. I don’t know about my neighbor, but my dad loved collecting his cattle. He used to call it having “cow fever”. It was his passion.

Now I’m going to collect some downtime. Until next time.

Oohshiny

 

Magnificent Possession

Hey, I remembered to blog for 2 days in a row. Go me.

One of my earliest memories of being given a piece of glass  was a pretty green vase that my aunt gave me. I was probably 8 to 10 years old.  I used to love to sit in the library in her house and look at all the books and the wonderful cobalt blue glass pieces on the shelves, along with lot of other interesting things that have been long forgotten. I do remember those cobalt blue pieces though. She also gave me a snack set. It had dark red cups & what I now know is a Button & Daisy pattern crystal snack plate. I think I’m short a cup, so if I ever find one I’ll probably get it to complete the set. Will I ever use it? Probably not. Collectors will tell you that’s not the point.

Ah, collectors. What a wonderfully diverse group of people. People collect all kinds of things. Glass, pottery, china, cars. You name it, someone out there probably collects it. For a look at the weird & wonderful, here’s a link:

http://distractify.com/old-school/2014/11/11/largest-and-weird-collections-1197798094

I think I’ll just stick with glass and porcelain, thanks.