Photo-A-Day #424 06/06/06

I stopped into this store, it was something like Nostalgiaville or something. They had everything from I love Lucy, Peanuts, Elvis, Old Movies, Penny candy for 25 cents. They even had Balsa Wood planes. Remember those, good for one or two flights till you wound the propeller to a double knot and it broke, and yet only went about 2 feet further than the proper wind.

My sisters and I used to work at a candy store on the cape. Each Sunday we would get up early and stuff the inserts and ads and comics into the Sunday paper. After we were done we would sometimes get $5.00 but most often we got a bag of candy. I’m not talking crappy candy either. We would get boxes of Nerds, Rinky Dinks (Made by Willy Wonka but are no longer in existence, think small gobstoppers that were sour and came in Lime, Orange, Cherry Strawberry, Lemon and Grape, my favorite candies ever by the way.) We even got to run the register and other stuff. That candy store and the adjoining Ice Cream shop is long gone now, torn down and made into a 1.5 million a condo complex. Great memories from those days working for candy.

Photo-A-Day #423 06/05/06

Mater and Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars. I found a few more of the die cast cars out here in Columbia, MO at a Wal-Mart. I’ll try and hit a few more to fill up the Cars carrying case I picked up yesterday. Hopefully I can find another Toys R’ US and get another movie ticket.

Broke my pedometer today on the flight from Providence to Pittsburgh. I forgot it was on my hip when I got on the plane and it snapped off when I got up at the end of the flight. The plastic hook for the belt is bent at a funny angle and can not be glued back together to the pedometer itself. I saw some pedometers at Target on clearance so I’ll have to pick one up back at home.

Saw a sign today for a Testicle Festival. I wasn’t in a place I could stop to catch that picture. I guess it is an annual event here in in this part of Missouri. It happened this past weekend.

I started reading Hunting Season today. Looks like this will be another good one.

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