ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Heading north to the big city -- Denver -- taking a day to celebrate our 54th wedding anniversary doing what we love best - junking and antiquing!  This has been our favorite activity together for over 50 years -- why quit now?

We were headed to the monthly (in the summer) Paris Street Market in the Aspen Grove area of southwest Denver.  

We hadn't been all summer because it has been so hot.  We thought by September it would have cooled off some, but we were wrong.  It was still HOT!  

 We enjoy going just to see what is HOT in the market place.

We saw lots of people carrying out chippy windows.  Crocks seem to be making a comeback. 

And, of course; gears, pulleys, farmstead stuff, and rusty anything are everywhere.

 Rusty letters!

 We saw lots of drawers -- they must be reading the blogs.

 This was my favorite - a cabinet made out of old wooden cheese boxes.  If it had been $39 instead of $139, I might have considered it.  However, who knows what I would have done with it!!

After the street market and some lunch, we headed to the Colorado Antique Gallery mall on South Broadway.  Then we checked out a couple of stores.  The first one was called 'Patina' - its card says, "found things, lost things, wah wah; oldy, moldy, rusty, musty; old things, new things, blah, blah, blah...".  This is a great store if you are in the vicinity of 5989 S. University in Greenwood Village.  The second store we stopped at was
 'Old Glory Antiques' at 6851 S. Gaylord in southwest Denver.  They sponsor the antique fair that we went to in the spring (see here); and their store never disappoints showing the latest finds in antiques, vintage, and home decor.

SO, what did we buy?  Our crazy, impulse, happy anniversary buy was a seed separator.  That's right -- a seed separator.  This thing is huge at about 4 feet wide by 4 feet deep by 4 feet tall.

 Bob loves working on this type of stuff, and will take it all apart and return it to working order.  Our only plans for it is to use it for Halloween in a pumpkin display.  Then we will decide on its future.

It just goes to show that you can't account for taste!!!!

The stores, antique mall, and street fairs are linked to their web sites.  For further info, just click on their names.