Here for your browsing pleasure I have foreign bank notes, collectibles, bass guitars, gigantic little tree, Medusa, Murano glass, lawn equipment+electronics, homes old and new, a church for sale, dead businesses, Intel, Hillsboro Airport, pretty office buildings, theater lights, printer upgrade, Jack and the Nightmare crew, my census responses, my friend’s back patio and plants, somebody’s cat (not the one on my porch), car accident, bikers and troop welcome back, evening shots around Forest Grove, green grass and blue skies, a dead possum, colorful loving giraffes, neighbors building painted, things on craigslist, REI steal of a deal, and more. It does not get much more “Miscellaneous” than that.

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I enjoy sharing so one day I drug out my big flat bed scanner to show you some of the foreign bank notes I have for sale. They are interesting, I think. I lot of people collect them. Kids especially enjoy them. Take a look. Obviously you must click the first one and go to slide show to really see them. It took a while to scan those in.

I love getting things in the mail that are not bills.

I sold the Earnhardt plaque already.

I have been getting a lot of basses lately.

I twittered about these a while back. Turns out Avon Barbie is worth pretty good money.

Needed to clean my phone. I almost forgot what it looks like under all that armor.

And then the air freshener. I had a photo of it because I bought it on e-bay, which amused me. I bought it to try increasing my rating for my newer account there.

 

Then I happened to have the scanner out for the foreign currency and of course could not resist.

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I get a lot of silver rounds of all description. Here is a pure ounce of silver you don’t see every day.

A nice double bass pedal.

Again with ridiculous packaging.

My dad brought the chipper, compressor, and generator over from our Tillamook store, where they were running out of room. I sold the compressor but not the other two yet.

Going through the Vista Ridge tunnel on one of my many trips to Portland.

This has nothing to do with me not eating meat anymore. I always thought, WHO THE HELL NEEDS TO EAT THREE HAMBURGERS AT ONCE? Gross. Just gross.

I LOVE this Medusa. I am keeping it of course. It is pewter from the Franklin Mint a long time ago.
It is worth quite a bit of money now but I am not selling it.

I bought a very powerful amplifier but it was dirty inside. Since I could not find my small compressor and air hose, I used the Tim Taylor method. Leaf blower. Excuse the greasy hand prints on the front of the amp. I hadn’t cleaned it yet.

My little friends are still there in front of me.

Always more DVDs.

Somehow I didn’t notice that I had spelled Monday incorrectly (in too much of a hurry) until the sign was printed and up in my window for a week. Oops. Apparently no one else noticed either; one of the benefits of being where so many people are illiterate.

The view from my basement laundry area (pre-mowing). I have come a long way from laundromat with migrant farm workers ans crack heads. Hooray!

My little side yard. You think that is bad, you should see how overgrown it is now. I will fix it. Again, I moved in after spring and summer.

Where I live now, getting ready to mow.

Where I lived 5 years ago, also in Forest Grove, upper right apartment. I HATED that place. Bunch of dirty lazy horrible people sucking welfare tit and decorating the place with shopping carts and trash. The a-hole owner of that place would fix nothing. in a later year he punched me in the face in front of the police and got arrested. He now is permanently banned from coming anywhere near me. Screw you slumlord scumbag. He owns a retirement home and steals from old people. He is much hated.

When I lived there the condos to the right were still a vacant lot. I mowed the whole field and spent much time removing all the metal, trash, and broken glass, to set up a makeshift baseball field for all the kids.

Around Forest Grove one Sunday…

I SO want to buy the church down the street. I would either live in it or turn it into a community center for people not stupid enough for the umpteen churches in the area. It would be so wonderful to have a place to meet people. There are events and meetings and social gatherings constantly all around my neighborhood but I am always left out, due to my inability to discontinue my use of reason, rational thought, and logic. I know there are a lot of other lonely, thinking people out there. It would be so great to have a way to get together.

This is where Signmeisters used to be. They are nice people and did all of my signs for my business in Forest Grove. I have not seen her around town to find out what happened. I assume the economy killed them, but you never know. Sad to see the place empty. There is way too much of that going on around here.

 

One of the few small town sporting goods stores around. For now. Walmart opens here very soon.

More of things a couple blocks from my house.

My yard, post-mow.

One Sunday evening I was driving aimlessly around Hillsboro, just looking, and took these to share.

This is one of several Intel facilities around here.

A short road near the end of the Hillsboro runway I had not been on had a surprise. Look in the windows. Nike corporate jets.

I did not know there was a little aviation museum there. I find all sorts of things exploring all the time.

This is over by the Washington County Fairgrounds. Yes, it is really dark. I THINK that track must be for rally cross, but I am not sure. I would LOVE to to that. I have talked to some people who do.

There are so many great looking business buildings around. I like these.

A view of The Streets of Tanasbourne that I had never seen.

Back into town, and over to REI, which unfortunately was closed. My only day off is Sunday, and everything closes too early.

There are lots of beautiful sights, even in cities ans suburbia. I love dramatic lighting.

Back at work, small package from China.

Got a great deal on this nice wide format HP printer. It is nowhere near the quality of my dead Canon, but will do for general business purposes. It is replacing that old white one.

I love the Nightmare Before Christmas things. I kept the bobble head and put it up on my aquarium, sold the bag, and gave the creepy kids to a friend.

More DVDs again. Always. There you can see I returned the season of Alf after watching it all.

Check him out. He pretty much rocks, right?

Medusa looks awesome in front of my tank. A customer gave me the pirate as a gift a long time ago.

I sent the slightly older 8 megapixel cameras to my cousin Beth for her daughter to have fun with. Two because one had a battery door that might no hold up. I love to share. I am sending a camera to my sister this week. I wish this recession would end so I could make money again and do more for my family, especially my mom.

I sent my census form back in at the last minute.

“How many people were living in this house?” 1

“Were there any additional people staying here…?” No.

That is it. Finished. You can shove all your racial and other questions up your…

Tress somewhere, birds building nest here at work again. I will get all that ugly open metal covered and painted very soon, as soon as it is warm out.

Another happy kids’ day at the fire department a block from my house.

Helmet I am selling. Every time I see this it makes me SO want to race cars.

My house and yard, post mow.

Different day. This is the first thing I see on my way to work every day. Such a nice little town. I love it here. Just need someone to share it with. Single women? Hello?

I hadn’t seen my friend, Jonna for several weeks. I asked her to play tennis with me. These photos are from her back patio. I gave her many of those plants but she re-potted them and they are growing well.

Those flowers in the planters on the ground and inside the windows are not from me. Jonna and her daughter planted those. Dog house was her son’s school project.

I helped her cut that big tall bush bush all the way back not long ago. I can’t believe how fast it grew back.

That little house on the alley was for sale when I lived there.

 

I gave this to her just a month or two ago. It is growing quickly and is gorgeous. Thanks to Jonna for letting me take pictures. More sun is finally coming this week. Hopefully I will get to play more tennis with her. I will be honest and say so far she kicks my ass every time. I will not let that continue much longer.

Another neighborhood cat. This one is way younger than the battle roughened one that hangs around me. I kept trying to get a photo of the cat’s face but it kept moving. Very friendly and beautiful animal that lives…somewhere.

That is my old place there. I sure don’t miss it much. Not too happy about being treated disrespectfully and having my space invaded. I bet they miss my $1000 a month.

My mini Nikon flash that some jerk on e-bay bid on and then didn’t pay for.

One of the many reasons for traffic problems driving back from east Portland one day. This is at the 205-84 ramp. Someone did something very stupid.

That same drive, on the way up the hill toward Sylvan…

Another package from the other side of the world.

Very wrinkly, but I fixed that with some warm water and gentle manipulation. I also adjusted, tightened, trimmed and improved them.

Even though my business in now more in Escalade land, there are still lots of big lifted trucks too. Makes mine look like a low-rider. At least one of them was military, and were eating next door.

I gave a few of these glass pendant necklaces to my mom for kids at her school and have ordered many more, from a few different places. I also have a second rack coming and some silver bracelets to sell.

On my way home from work one day…

A local National Guard unit had just come home.

Is it even possible to be more of a cliche’? I seriously doubt it. Like being a cardboard cut-out of a person.

 

I never get tired of the moon being involved in photos.

Ah, look how nice the little theater looks at night.

This again is the school district building a block from my house. Such a beautiful place.

I started using Twhirl one day and it does a good job, but I have not used it since.

Time to get the letters out and change one side of the sign.

I am so glad they repainted the place next door it looks way better now. The car lot (trucks actually) is now totally moved in and open.

Some beautiful silver jewelry I had for sale. It is gone already.

Dusk at a field/orchard right down the road from my house.

I just like their little wall.

Custom wheels in Cornelius.

I ran across that very dangerous chunk of highway to share the local view with you.

I would again like to encourage you who take pictures to not always leave the camera in auto mode. I see so many photos that could be WAY better with simple adjustment or use of different setting.

The first image is the what people get when using auto or P modes. The grass is dark and the sky is bright, so the camera gives an exposure somewhere in between. The result, well, sucks. The second is the same camera, still not in manual mode, but using spot metering from the sky instead of evaluative (or matrix or whatever). One simple mode adjustment makes a huge difference. I see SO many overexposed images because of laziness or ignorance.

Same thing here, evaluative metering on left, spot metering on the right.

A few snapshots from nearby Verboort area. It is SO beautiful here.

While parked at that same spot with glorious beauty to my right, I saw to my left a reminder to enjoy the good things every chance you get, because you never know how long it will last.

Hello, cows.

Back in Forest Grove a few blocks from my house, waiting for some food to go. Beauty everywhere, I am telling you.

Closer to home… evil church, dramatic building, and again with the moon.

One day when I got home I decided to take a few snapshots with the camera sitting on the table where I always put my phone, camera, keys etc. when I get off work every day. The colored light is always there. I have a color changing LED thing under the table. I love color. LOVE. I also love my giraffes, two of several I have.

Some way nice boots I had on e-bay a couple of times. They didn’t sell.

Here are some very nice pieces of equipment I recently have had on craigslist. Only ONE of them sold so far. Have I mentioned that this economy is unbelievably terrible? Probably.

Nice Taco Bell photo, Steve. Thanks. I thought so.

Here are those mountain bike shoes and cleats I got the crazy good deal on at the recent REI used gear sale. They may look dirty ( I didn’t even brush them off yet) but they are a once used return. They are the same shoes I was going to buy last year. They are $97+ new. I paid, wait for it, $12.42, yes, $12.42. I will be going to the used gear sales in the future. I ended up there at just the right time accidentally this time.

Don’t know. Random photo.

Those silver bracelets again. They sold right away. I really liked the turtles.

Well there you have it; some of the thing I saw in April. I also have hundreds of photos coming soon from a 24 mile walk I went on in Portland. This post took many days of work to prepare. Maybe I will take a day off from this before starting on the next one. Thanks so much for being here. Remember, comments are invited. Have a great day.