double date with Q and S, who are us from the other side of the world. glorious crab feast.

the antique store owner came out five minutes after we called “hello?” and introduced himself as “John, lapidarist”

anoteinpink replied to your photo: RAWR, found two of these stone cat bookends at a…

this is So You

I knowwww!! I was wandering around between hundred-year-old cast iron pans (we got one also) and a red-candle’d shrine to the Knights Templar (???) and the shop owner’s hand-rubbed pipestone pipes and hand-cut gemstones and his terrier Skippy and I saw them and I clutched them to my chest. they were “$18.00 for pair.” I went up to the shop owner and said “I would like to give these a new home, please”