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Good afternoon all...a fine, sunny, beautiful day, again, here in the Pacific Northwest....the newsgal says it seems that we are trying to wring every single day of summer weather out of Mother Nature, before the fall rains take over....its been just beautiful here lately, and is supposed to continue for a little while anyway...

Westy...love those tulips up in the skagit Valley....we have never been up there for the tulips when they are in bloom...perhaps this coming spring....usually when we have gone up to the Skagit Valley, its in Late Jan. or early Feb. to see the eagles...

Loddy...loved the list of things to give men....BigDom has a habit of buying more than one of certain things, tho he is nothing compared to what my dad had squirreled away in his railway container, set up next to his house...

After he had died, and we were moving mom in with us, it was a matter of packing up their house....man oh man, what a pack rat my dad was....

Boxes full of drills, both corded and cordless, box full of different bits, coffee cans full of nails, bolts, screws, washers....probably had about 20 different hand saws(tho he did not have a chain saw, so BigDom of course ran out and bought one to complete the whole shebang)....he probably had about 20 hammers of all sorts, 20 axes, 20 varying rolls of rope and tapes(yellow, green, duct, etc)...it seems like he had about 20 of everything...

And cigs....he had heard that California was raising the tax on cigs, so a full year before the tax would go into effect, he started buying cigs in multiples...probably had about 100-120 cartons of cigs saved up....

And fishing equipment....good grief...Dad loved fishing....but when he went fishing, instead of using what he already had, going fishing was an excuse to go out and buy more and more fishing equipment....he bought everything new over and over again...poles, reels, tackle boxes, bobbers, weights, nets, pails, scalers, tape measures, knives, whatever was related to fishing, he bought it...

And massive amounts of pocket knives, billy clubs, big knives, swords, brass knuckles, any kind of a blade, and he had to have it....we have hundreds and hundres of knives and swords, all left from dad...

So, I may collect my dollies, in massive quantities, but my dad was a master collector of 'mens' things...