Some Mexican guy went by in a red pickup blasting music. I really hope this doesn’t become a regular practice.

Anyway, I did win the lot and we paid early this morning. We would’ve paid last night, but I didn’t get the automated invoice till after he crashed. They left me feedback and said the dolls would be shipped tomorrow morning. I’ll probably have them on the 30th. The only thing that worries me is that I wasn’t able to get insurance on them, but they’re not porcelain dolls, so I guess this means I’ll get them sooner or later.

In just over an hour, the flute and computer book auctions end. Last we checked, the flute was up to $8. He’s also thinking of cleaning and selling his real flute, too.

Later…

Not a whole lot of money made tonight. A buck for his book which is going to Tennessee, and $8.77 for the bamboo flute going to Ohio, but hey, something’s better than nothing and it’s less unwanted junk we’ll have hogging up space.

Since it’s looking more and more likely that we will end up in Oregon, I decided to pull inside the palm tree that had been sitting on the front steps in the pot of the indoor palm that died to see if it can live indoors. I put a spell on it. The kind Mary would approve of for sure. This will be a real test of my powers – a palm tree living in Oregon. An outdoor palm tree living indoors in Oregon. I pulled it in now figuring that if it’s going to die indoors, it’s probably going to do so no matter what state we’re in and better to have it die here if it’s going to so we don’t go lugging it along with us, even if it’s only 17” tall. Date palms are very, very slow-growing.

I warded off another cold for Tom that tried to set in.