Armageddon ...already!

Is the world coming to an end? I must have started recycling just a little to late! Or better yet, Hell must have frozen over.......

because

Our Bathroom Remodel is Complete!!!!

GG & I were more then pleased to try out our new lavatory for the first time in WEEKS. I'll save showing you the pictures of me actually enjoying a nice long, hot bubble bath and then the shaving of the legs ceremony, which was long overdue. We are very pleased with the work Skinny has done and we look forward to working on more home improvement projects with him and Polly. Just to show you that he really exist and actually does work and the magical bathroom fairy didn't contract out this job.

Here is Skinny hard at it! I have come to the conclusion that he must have been "drinking" on the job because I have visual proof he is praying to the porcelain god.

do you see why we call him that

Finally, because I know how much pleasure she got out of her 1hr 15min. "swimfest" we'll call a bath, last night. I've decided to share her shear enjoyment with you!
Also, because it was just so darn cute hearing her repeat "Dood dob Dake" ( Good Job Jake) while rubbing a wash cloth across her bare bottom.

Cash in the attic.....

Apparently there is a show on HGTV called Cash in the Attic. It's safe to say that I recently had my very own non-televised experience with this concept. Where are the reality tv cameras and show producers when I need them!

I have often tried to get TPG to follow me around with our handy cam, you know to film random moments and experiences of my day. He's not really on board with that idea just yet!

Back to my story!

While we were having our garage sale this past weekend, TPG and Skinny decided it was a great opportunity to clean out our shed. This shed has acquired our junk since the day we moved into our house and it has never even been cleaned out......some 3 years later. It's a long story but the previous homeowners (now deceased) were quite the woodworkers and collectors of many thing. Mostly junk but there were a lot of neat tools and gadgets dated 4 decades or more. These treasures were left there for us when we became the new home owners. I've always tried to think of the shed as some sort of strange "house warming" gift from "The Old Man" as we often refer to the previous dead owner.

One of the treasures found during the cleaning of the shed was this really old chair. Skinny & Polly thought it may have some value to it but were unsure of what it was worth. It just looked old but still in really great structural shape. So, we put it in the garage sale at $50. Several people looked at the "high priced" item but there wasn't any real interest. We then decided to swap put the $50 price tag and replaced it with a "make offer" tag and still.......no takers.

I decided to do a little research on this particular chair to get a better idea of it's value. Who knows....we could have just been "sitting" on some junk. This is the information I found out after taking just a few pictures and posting them on this website for a free appraisal. Needless to say, I was more then pleased with what they had to say.

Here is my "Old Chair Found in Shed"

Can you believe it's from the 1850's-1860's and valued at nearly $100 in as is condition? It's really neat knowing that I have something so old in my possession that I didn't even know we had. We haven't really decided on what to do with our new treasure. I really think we're leaning towards selling it. We're most likely not going to restore the chair because that's rather expensive & time consuming. I think I would rather offer the chair to someone who would appreciate it's beauty far more then I ever could.

Any suggestion?