JOBU'S LOCKER

Thursday, December 23, 2010

2 Thumbs Up!

We made our destination! We were both starstruck!

Giving Gifts

Danielle graciously receives this 1940's kitschy toilet lid cover!

Breaking the ice....

Patrick brought in this great Victorian Fireplace Screen, Abby popped on it!, Danielle forked over the $$!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

We are setting out Wednesday morning for our Wisconsin home and Xmas with the families. Part of our journey will include a pilgrimage to the shrine of the American Pickers in LeClaire, Iowa. We will stop to offer sacrifices to the picker gods (a bottle of Georgia moonshine, an old can of Texaco oil, and a lighted candle will be placed at the entrance). We will take some pictures and hopefully break the ice by selling them some of our picks. Pray for good travel and that the picking gods will shine on us.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sunday Brunch In Opelika Alabama

That is Phyllis in front of Whispering Oaks, an old plantation house. Brunch was good southern fair. Loved the fried pork chops.

Our Christmas Picture

No seriously, this is it. No we are not printing them up and sending them out. You have to come to the blog to see it. We are not going to load up the postal system with cards that will eventually be used as coasters for your party. Those postmen are on the edge already. Have you ever heard of the phrase "going postal?"

Can't pass up a good yard sale.

On the way home from Sunday Brunch. Last days xmas shopping. Weather was great.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Civil War Christmas

In the Thomas Nast cartoon that first depicted Santa Claus with a sleigh and reindeer, he was delivering Christmas gifts to soldiers fighting in the U.S. Civil War. The cartoon, entitled "Santa Claus in Camp," appeared in Harper's Weekly on January 3, 1863.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Day 13 of the World Famous Banana Experiment

Note that the emitted radiation from the banana has severely tanned the banana. Slight shrinkage noted. Lead lined underwear very uncomfortable. This update brought to you by CoCola.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Go ahead. Just try to pass that bucket without putting some cash in and see what happens.

The Salvation Army has been sending Santa Claus-clad donation collectors into the streets since the 1890s.

Ringing the bell for Salvation Army

Reindeer antlers, one dollar, used longjohns three dollars, four hours, thirty degrees, winds twenty gusting to thirty. Hitting the jackpot because people feel sorry for you. Priceless.

Feeding the hungry this holiday season.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Busted and Disgusted

Cat Burglar and failed criminal becomes exhausted breaking into christmas presents and falls asleep.

This Day In History

On July 26, 1984, Ed Gein, a serial killer infamous for skinning human corpses, dies of complications from cancer in a Wisconsin prison at age 77. Gein served as the inspiration for writer Robert Bloch’s character Norman Bates in the 1959 novel Psycho, which in 1960 was turned into a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Edward Theodore Gein was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on July 27, 1906, to an alcoholic father and domineering mother, who taught her son that women and sex were evil. Gein was raised, along with an older brother, on an isolated farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. After Gein’s father died in 1940, the future killer’s brother died under mysterious circumstances during a fire in 1944 and his beloved mother passed away from health problems in 1945. Gein remained on the farm by himself. In November 1957, police found the headless, gutted body of a missing store clerk, Bernice Worden, at Gein’s farmhouse. Upon further investigation, authorities discovered a collection of human skulls along with furniture and clothing, including a suit, made from human body parts and skin. Gein told police he had dug up the graves of recently buried women who reminded him of his mother. Investigators found the remains of 10 women in Gein’s home, but he was ultimately linked to just two murders: Bernice Worden and another local woman, Mary Hogan. Gein was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was sent to a state hospital in Wisconsin. His farm attracted crowds of curiosity seekers before it burned down in 1958, most likely in a blaze set by an arsonist. In 1968, Gein was deemed sane enough to stand trial, but a judge ultimately found him guilty by reason of insanity and he spent the rest of his days in a state facility. In addition to Psycho, films including Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs were said to be loosely based on Gein’s crimes.