Friday, April 8, 2022

Treasure:pic::notes:::4/8/2022

 Lobsters For Sale

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Notes: Game on, on the radio...Astros at Angels...Altuve up...home run...lol...3-1 fastball...ok, after my softball game, I stopped at Goodwill, shopped the picture section, and found this pencil drawing in a nice frame...it has unusual inset inset back....anyway, now I'll look up the artist...Fred Aldrian Aug 2007...brb...Astros made out....bottom of 1st...Ohtani up...Astros 1-0...welp, I can't find the artist...so no tale to tell...and, I'm tired...bbk with game report...3-2...base hit!!!...bk...Astros up 6-2...sixth inning?...long game...both the Incas and the Egyptians didn't have coins/money...Astros 7-2...and I thought that some kindof, I dunno, noble...but on second thought, they both had treasure...Astros accumulating treasure!...Astros 8-2...there was another pencil drawing by the same artist in the Goodwill "gallery"...frame not good...mat blemished...Astros 9-2...the "gallery" is shelving along one wall...added to each day...subtracted from by customers each day....and as galleries go, it's kinda neat...famous artists to grammar school kids efforts framed by doting parents...there's two nearby Goodwills...some things are displayed nice, others put willy nilly on shelves...there is some kind of curation going on...and small frames are usually under five dollars, big ones 10-15....some I have are very expensive custom things gotten for this bargain...and, and I haven't found a signed original painting by someone famous...those are found long before they get to the store show...but that makes for something interesting....the works that are in the store, mostly prints/giclees, are by what I called 'middle tier' artists....professionals successful at selling copies of their originals for like twenty to eighty dollars...their originals sell in the thousands...almost any original work has good value, even if not gallery fare...try to find an example of this tomorrowmorrow...free tomorrow to garage sale!...most Saturdays I have games to ump...Angels are getting clobbered...a frustrating thing is Goodwill will display something that is part of something, a pair or some such...one day one thing, then, like two weeks later, the other thing!...got a couch and chair, cool leather, and then a month later the matching lazy boy showed up!...more of Aldrian's drawing might show up...fond of this one because of my thing for lobsters!...Ohtani up, bottom of seventh..."middle tier" efforts are fine things/treasure, like high school sports!!!Astros 12-2 top of eighth...eesh...bbk... 


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