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Showing posts with label elephant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elephant. Show all posts

Sunday, June 3, 2012

A Gentleman, A Chandelier


I ran across a chandelier yesterday suspended over a leather king size bed on this handsome mans.... garage. Had you going there for a minute didn't I? I looked at the price tag and was very pleased but was going to see if he would lower it a bit as some crystals are missing. Mind you, he is a designer and was also selling large pieces of furniture and carpets in excess of five hundred dollars. He had tented rooms all over his yard just a half mile from The Augusta National Golf course. His name is Phillip.  I called him over and asked if he could do better on the price. He said, "How about twenty five dollars?"
Before I could say I would take it a young woman with a tiny infant strapped to her chest jumps into our conversation and gets in my face and says she would give him thirty for it. Phillip ignores her and nods to me and says he will get the chandelier down for me. He is a gentleman and not swayed by five dollars. The woman gets really loud then and insists she will pay more. 
Did she want me to arm wrestle her for it?





Phillip is a character and told me since his hair went white he gets more "action." 
{I had told him his white hair was terribly handsome.}
 I said, "Funny, all I get are senior citizens discounts at age forty nine with my grey hair."

He also reduced the price of an elephant lamp for CC. He was unhurried and had a huge crowd of customers there and spent time talking to us. He had a large group of friends helping him with the sale which was well organized.

Our new chandelier will be hung under the roofed part of our deck and Joe is happy electricity is not required. I must first clean the deck and sell a desk that is resting there. 
The life of a geriatric junker is not boring.

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Wow Us Wednesday's 

happy trails
Olive

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

White Elephant In Our Garden


We have another elephant in our garden.


The other elephant is on a trellis that you astute readers noted when I posted about the butterfly bush.




His tail is adorable.
He is made out of one piece of wood and has small ears so we think he is from India.


I am thinking about painting him. I know, I paint every seventh odd full moon in a cold month.



He would be better white with a hint of glaze in those little ridges.
He was a thrifty find for seven dollars.
 Not that it rains here anyway much but he will reside under the pergola.

I am joining Sherry at No Minimalist Here for Open House Party.
&
Kim at Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesdays.

grace surrounds us
Olive