Antiques and a book review

To relieve boredom I took a little trip to the Goss Ave Antique Mall in Louisville. I discovered a couple things I really liked...

I love the top two photos a lot, both pieces would look great together. The lines of the couch are really nice. The bottom couch is just interesting; it could be really cool if it was fixed up and recovered in a cool fabric.

 Please observe how cool that butcher block is. It's huge and so worn. And those trunks are awesome too, massive. I have a hard time imagining what travel would be like if you had to carry a couple of those things around with you.

The keys look like jail keys which makes me wonder about the people they locked up. I love that pelican, he's cute. And for some reason, I was really attracted to those orange dishes, they looked better in person. It  would be fun to have a kitchen full of brightly colored pots and pans against white open cabinets. Especially with that butcher block above...

 There are soooo many pretty, antique Persian rugs here. I'm sure if I dug through them I could find a couple I could afford, maybe. *Sigh.

Then I found this gem... Apparently UofL used to have a yearbook. It was aptly named the Thoroughbred. I wish I could have paged through these some more but it was almost closing time.

And finally the greatest discovery of the day... aaaaaaaah!

The biggest, most beautiful, antique drafting table ever. This is what I've been looking for. I would gladly work on any project any time of the day on this baby. Unfortunately... it's $695, on sale. Perhaps after I earn my first $1000 of freelance work I will purchase this... yeah... But seriously, I want it.

You know, I should probably stay away from antique malls. I wonder if the Goss Ave Antique Mall's employees get discounts... hmmm.

So there's my Sunday excursion in a blog-shaped nutshell. Anyone wanna buy me the drafting table?

I also just finished That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx, apparently the author of Brokeback Mountain as well. I did not know this until I was halfway through the book, but I've decided that shouldn't affect my opinion of this book. It's the story of a young man who begins working for a hog farm corporation trying to acquire land in the panhandle of Texas. It's mostly set in 2000, with a handful of flashbacks to the late 1800s and early 1900s. It's starts a little slow, uses a lot of big words, and touches on some controversial subjects. I was enraptured by about halfway through and sped through the end of the book today. The ending was great and now I am fascinated with the Texas panhandle, and of course cowboys and buffalo. It made me want to move to Texas and resume wearing cowboy boots and jeans covered in horse hair, sweat and poop on a regular basis. What am I doing in a city not riding horses? Am I ill? Unconscious? Delusional?

I could go off on a tangent about money right now, but I won't. This post is already long, so I'll save it for another time. And yeah, I'll get DC pics up soon.

Anyone else have Sunday excursions to share? I'm sure you did...