Next week I'll start loading books into my van and taking some to the Caspar Community Center preparing for Sunday's breakfast and my book sale on the 28th of April. It's been a couple of months since I've done this. I did a sale in January and had planned to do one in February but my back was hurting, I guess I'm getting old. In March we were in Arizona, selling our mixed metal jewels at the Scottsdale Arts Festival and enjoying visiting indian ruins and relaxing in the Verde Valley area north of Phoenix. It was great to enjoy the warm sunshine for a couple of weeks. Of course I harvested books all along my trail coming and going. The most productive new place I found to acquire books this trip was the friends of the library store at the library in Prescott, Arizona which turned out to be a treasure trove of interesting books at reasonable prices and very well organized. I have harvested at Prescott thrift stores a number of times but this was my first time at their library, hopefully not the last.
I'm fairly amazed to have sold a CD on Amazon recently for $80. It was one from an album originally released in the early 70's called "From Delaney to Bonnie" recorded by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. It was one of a collection of 300 CD's I acquired last year for 75 cents a piece. I've only recently started checking CD's on the internet, and I find that most are available for $2 to $6 but every once in a while I find one that is worth $20, $40, $50 and, in this case $80. The down side of this is, of course, that I have to end up checking each and every one. It's a lot easier with the internet to check this and also the value of books. Before digital days it was a long and laborious process to find out how much books were worth. Now it's a matter of seconds usually.
It's interesting the rituals that life leads one into. It's a fun game though, looking for treasure.
