gwinnyb

As an Oregon resident for 60 + years I should here contribute that Boring, Oregon is indeed an accurate description of the town that is so named.

Normal

I've found a refreshing absence of "normal" people in Normal
Like Baldur, and for the same reason, I'll probably miss the commercials too.

Baldur

'All Baldur, All the Time'
This is closet cleaning day at Chez Baldur. I confess to being quite the packrat. Eventually the accumulation gets to the point where it either must go away or I risk it developing self-awareness.
Luckily Baldur has a greatful recipient for my castoffs.
Matteo of Shrewsbury.
His main source of income is what he makes by selling stuff at a flea market. So anything that could possibly be resold is most welcome.

Baldur

Baldur did however put aside a few items already that shall be recycled as yuletide gifts. It's good to get that out of the way before the holidays even begin.
I endeavor to have my holiday cards mailed, my gifts purchased and giftwrapped by the end of November each year.
It's marvelous to go to the mall and just sit and have a cup of hot chocolate while the rest of the people there are in overdrive.

Baldur

This year most likely will not be a repeat of the fruitcake-a-thon that Baldur was part of in 2008.
I baked 32 fruitcakes and set them to marinate in rum for a couple months(there are 3 still hidden here at Chez Baldur.... fruitcake last forever).

Baldur

But back to the closets.
One of the things that is leaving is a goodly sized stack of magazines.
Certainly Baldur can not part with his issues of 'American Bungalow', 'Style 1900' or 'Victoria' but some copies of 'Cottages and Bungalows' and 'Cowboys & Indians' will never be looked at again.
Those can safely go away.

lilalee

Hey, I get American Bungalow!! Love it, and espically the ads are resourceful!!
Over the years our favorite magazines pile up into stacks saved for this and that. Now after reading and looking, if I see something i really want to keep, well I neatly cut it out and save in my folder of goodies. Then pass the magazine along.
By the way Baldur, my house is a bungalow, mission style, with lots of oak.
Is your home a bungalow also??

Baldur

Oh lilalee, I have never met anyone who has ever even heard of the magazine, let alone gets it.
Baldur doesn't subscribe to AB because the USPost office shreds the covers off my magazines regularly. It seems they can even manage to destroy them if the magazine is shipped in an envelope.
Baldur heads off to the bookstore every 60 days and pays more to have the magazine in good condition.
No, Chez Baldur is not a Bungalow, it's a raised ranch built in 1970. This is absolutely not the type of house I ever had in mind, but it came with Robert as a package deal.
The neighbors are wonderful and the area beautiful so one cannot really complain.
I keep eyeing the circa 1902 abandoned farmhouse around the corner with a certain amount of envy though. It's a mess but could potentially be quite beautiful.
If say Baldur were to hit the lottery he could track down the owners, buy the house, have it hauled here, set on a new foundation and restored.
Then the current Chez Baldur could be donated to someone who could dismantle it and re-erect it elsewhere.
It's not a bad house really, and I've done everything imaginable to pull it out of it's era.
A lot of the furnishings are Mission, though there is also a smattering of Eastlake. I love antiques but buy over a range of years rather than one distinct period. Primarily for me it's 1870 through 1920.
Well, except for the Fiestaware I guess which is later, the Roseville pottery, the Vera designed linens, the few things from Peter Max........

Baldur

Baldur also collects images of airships, but have been extremely selective and thus haven't filled the place with them.

Most of the framed art is by Maxfield Parrish, in the 1980s I found a source for some incredible prints he did for Collier's magazine in the early years of last century. They serialized the recently printed book '1001 Arabian Nights' and did full page prints of his illustrations. They are glorious, and since Parrish supervised the printing process himself, they got it right.
The 1980s were good years for Baldur so I bought the 12 Arabian Night images and had them framed properly.
I added a few other older prints of his to the collection through the years; whenever I stumble across one that hasn't been faded by a century of sunlight the colors take my breath away.
I also have a bit of older ecclesiastical music. These are pages from books with oversized printing, made to be put on stands for the choir to be able to see from a distance. They are quite stunning, their scale makes them seem quite modern but they are from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Dragon

I read a story about a woman who wanted to redo her house but when she got the estimate for the reno it would cost more than tearing down the house and rebuilding. She still thought the house was in very good condition, just not the style she wanted and she didn't want to move. So she put an ad on Freecycle or a similar site to give away her house. The only stipulation was that you prove you had a place to put it and the money to pay for the transport of the house. Now at first I thought, wow that's really generous of her (which of course it was) but then I got to thinking, what a brilliant way of save the cost of demolition. (I'm sure Baldur's motives would be strictly philanthropic if he were ever to be able to pull this off for himself though)

Baldur

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Dragon

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=53415
Thanks Baldur, I love Alligator Pie. How ‘bout a little ‘turn around’s fair play’?
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=53459

sheftali52

Login is one of my favorites, so here goes:

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=53460

Robindcr8l

Lilalee is always so joyful and positive...maybe some strawberry pie for her!

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=53475

PS, Baldur, had this solved hours ago but had plans. It drove me nuts to have to wait to draw til I got home!

sheftali52

heh heh--Dragon and Robin and I are obviously enthralled with Baldur's cryptogram. Sheftali must confess that as soon as she saw the "poledancing" cleverly woven into said cryptogram, she knew one of the words must have been "matthew". Baldur continues to entertain!

Robindcr8l

I, too, found the word Matthew first, then built upon it to get the rest. We, Sheftali, are almost as brilliant as the author of our cryptograms! LOL

sheftali52

Amen, Robin--we are brilliant, but our host is even more so! Sheftali is so pleased to find such an eclectic, witty mind. How fortunate for all of us that a lull in Think Draw some months ago spawned the widely-loved Channel Baldur!

matthew

Well over 1/2 of the post in this forum are on Radio Baldur... yet it always leads back to pole dancing... sigh... lol

Baldur

Alligator Pie

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=53409

Baldur

Dragon gets hit with an Alligator Pie

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=53415