Fountain Pens

Quite awhile back, I went into the attic of my father's house and rummaged through some of my grandmother's crafty stuff. My grandparents bought the house in 1959 so there's a lot of accumulated stuff. My grandmother was an artist, and an amazingly crafty woman. After seeing some old photographs for sale $1 each at the Johnny Appleseed Festival today, I thought of the upstairs bedroom filled with decades worth of old family photos. Here's some of Grandma before she married Grandpa.

45th Annual Johnny Appleseed Festival, 2019 Edition

Oh my goodness! It was a day!

I didn't snap photos today, although I intended to, but I couldn't even think about letting this gem pass by without sharing it.

This antique has quite a bit of wear and tear, but you know what? It's the freaking Santa Maria! As in 'the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria'! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Christopher Columbus was a royal jerk and he's the one primarily responsible for the rise of ethnic-based slavery in the Americas. But it's also a direct line between his supposed discovery of America and most of our American existence. Don't worry. At a price tag of $125, it definitely did not come home with us. I just had to share it.

Work: Aggravatingly Rewarding

As annoying and aggravating as today went at work, and by that I mean that I didn't get much of my workload relating to my position as department lead accomplished, today was also a day that reminded me of how rewarding working in retail can be.

While helping out at customer service I took a phone call from a woman who wanted help shopping when she came in to the store. In the course of the conversation, she relayed that she is blind and since she had now heard my voice and I was so pleasant with big energy, she wanted me specifically.