Library sales...great show and chance of a nice find...

Library sales can be so much fun. Get there early and keep your people watching skills honed. The first half-hour of a library sale usually a pretty great bit of performance art. Best of all, in addition to the show, you have the chance to find some nice bits of this and that. Suz and I attended a local sale the other day. We bought a half dozen items and all were solid purchases. Two, however, were quite good (both in the $450 range)...these two for a total outlay of $19. I am going to have to make a donation to the library when they sell, as I always do when we purchase something reasonably/very valuable at one of these sales.

Most of those attending where great fun and enjoyed themselves. There were only a handful of the way too intense, this is war, damn the torpedoes types attending...its amazing how, in a community that is really quite small, some people don't seem to care at all how poorly they behave. Then again, no one threw any books (I've seen that at at least one sale) and no one came in, stood in front of a table and shouted, "I'm taking this whole table"...and then proceeded to go through the table, vetting the things she really wanted and leaving the dreck (a personal favorite, I've seen the same person at more than one sale do the same thing). This was pretty mellow compared to the really fun ones *laughing*.

Overall, however, we made some great purchases and saw a pretty good performance of the ongoing piece, "Poor Behavior on Parade." Fun was had by all.