how do you get rid of your grass?

'Cause I didn't get a good night after finding this waltzing out from under the dust ruffle on my side.

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Y'all heard the one about the funeral of the guy who wrote the Hokey-Pokey, didn't you?

Nona, you have turtles that eat grass?? Wish I was closer... well, and didn't have a dog. I have a boy. He'd love them. Sounds like you're anxious to send them packing.

Weeze, you're so funny about your bed having that 'come hither' look!!! Bah, ha ha ha! Hey, Victor, I'm not dead, you know! So what if my mind is dirty. So are my fingernails.... eeeeew!

Maybe I could ask for a rototiller for christmas or something. I still need a cart bigger than my wheelbarrow with a flat tire.... ugh. My muscles are gonna look like Popeye's!

Oh, Bill! THAT's what I'm saying! I gotta get the shovel like you say. I can visualize what you mean about lifting the sod with this shovel. Mine's curved and pointed. Maybe that's part of my problem. Thank you!

Laurel, I love that sleeping gnome. The other guy, I could do without... forever! Eeek! ((shiver)) ugh.

They use pigs in Papua New Guinea as their rototillers, then they eat what they grow plus the pigs. No gas. Faster than turtles. Does your son like pigs?

Laurel, Never Gnome what you will find under a bed.

Patti, Harper's in need of a gnomeatic tool for her grass. On the other hand, I am not needing gnomeadic scorpions in the bedroom, gnome matter what!

Here we go again.
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Gnome kidding! Patti

AND NOW IN THE CENTER RING

Featuring a cast iron Gargoile guarding our front entry. We found this at an antiques show years ago. It is sitting on and bolted tight to a three hundred pound chunk of concrete and rock. We have not known of any theft effort yet! It was in a basket needing much TLC. Would you believe $50.00 at the end of the show. My son welded it back together with coat hanger wire.

Not only does my son like pigs, but I like them too!

This gnome stuff is too much for me! Don't I gnome it.

Fantastic gargoyle urn Doc!

Harper check this link out fohttp://www.gardenersedge.com/item.cgi?item=am12&cat=Search&subcat=shovelsr the shovel. I got mine at sears or HD for a fraction of what this cost. What I like about it is only the grass on the edges have a chance to grow through and as long as you cover them with enough dirt your allset.

But, Harper, do you and your son like BACON?? lol

Bill, the link didn't work.

I wouldn't eat the poor pig! He'd be family by that time.

Gnomes - now you got me started again. This will be going off on auction tonight.

What is the possiblity that this item "Gnomes" may have be one of six others associated with Snow White? Got 'cha? :)))

Those are dwarfs, Dwaine!

http://www.gardenersedge.com/item.cgi?item=am12&cat=Search&subcat=shovels

Try this link

I was referring to Schickenlady's little guy in the auction. He looks like one of the sneaky littly guys Snow White kept around her being.

I once bought a twenty inch fully articulated hand carved wood image from a picker that looked like it might have had twelve other associates as in The Last Supper. Drove me nuts thinking of what it might be worth if they were out there somewhere...if I could find them. Later I found the item was from a church theft during the first world war. With a bit of effort it finally made it home where it belonged.

A happy ending!

It sounds like there are some auction goers on this tread. When I am in Vt, if I am not in the garden or at a nursery, I am at an auction. I use to have booths in several Group shops in Vt and NH and I sold items at a fancy auction house on Nantucket. I will be unloading a bunch of "stuff" here soon. But eBay sort of killed the group shops. I haven't started selling on eBay. I hate packing as much as I hate digging up grass. Full circle and gnome the worse for wear. Patti

Patti, had to throw that in eh? Couldn't help your elf.
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schicken - the link is being changed when i hit send here. google gardeners edge and search shovels. on the second page you will see the one i mean. i think they want $64.95. i lnow i got mine for $20 or so at sears i think. i did check the sears site and cold not find it.

Thanks Bill, I did not end up going so the litle gnome snowy white will go hide under a bridge or trellis some place else.

We love the auction method of merchandising. When active we often did two or more a week and sometimes traveled great distances to buy and sell. We made it a lifestyle planning our travels from auction to auction with a show fit in often enough to sell some of the treasures we gathered up. We found it one of the most interesting activities in our lives.

Doc, I love the fact that you get to see and chat with a tight group of "regulars" and a kind of little auction language is developed. I could recognize a glance from many during the bidding that said, no I really need this item or a look that said I will battle you to your last buck. I sold many things again to other regular dealers who knew I would take a small profit at the end of the night after winning a bid. Or I would love selling off pieces on a "tray lot" that I had no interest in to retain the only one I wanted and sometimes getting it for free. Being a book dealer, I often bought a big lot of books for only one in the 5 of 10 boxes in the lot that had to be purchased to get the one I wanted. I hated having to load them up, so I usually gave all the ones I didn't want to pickers at the end of the night.

I go to a wide range of auctions, some that are mostly junk and others for the serious antique collectors. I have had some great finds at both, but a few big mistakes, too. I bought a nice "old" iron shelf and when I was putting it into the car, I found a "made in China" sticker on it. I took it back inside and said to the large remaining crowd, "hey, anyone want this Chinese crap that this house is seeding his 'antique' sales with?" Big laugh except from the auctioneer. But I should have looked closer and he shouldn't have said it was a "Victorian Hat Self" rather a Victorian style hat self or copy or re-pro or fake. Upon further discussion with several dealers , we realized it had his sellers number on it. So no mistake. I did get some great things through him over the years, but he was getting slimy with all the eBay pressure as he wasn't getting the good consignments or estates that he once did. He is out of business now. Served him right, gnome kidding. Patti

Patty.............once I heard that the best buyers were dealers upgrading their collections or the collections of others. Anyone can educate themselves in a given area to the extent that he or she knows more than most of the competition. Never the less when the collectors house (at any level) has to be sold to continue collecting a new dealer is born. From the boiling stew pot of dealers there is allways one of them becoming a leader in a given field. Few realize the true lifestyle possible when becoming a serious collector or dealer in training. The school of hard knocks graduates a good one every now and again.

I am still in 2nd grade, but loving the search. My poor DS use to come home from boarding school and find different tables and chairs in the house. He was always amused that I bought and sold things so quickly. I don't do that once I am trilled, but it was so easy to have a chair for a few months and then see one that I loved more and buy it and sell the other. The balance was usually an even trade. Now I am adding on occasion to my many "collections" and always on the hunt for great finds that I can turn for a nice profit. I would love to go to your area to hit the auction trail. But Vt, NH and western Ma still have a few decent houses, though the pickings seem a lot slimmer these days. Patti

Slmmer pickings is a factor everywhere. Antiques On The Road Show, more co-ops with more folks learning plus the ease of using eBay has added to the storage of more items by more dealers at all levels of the industry. Still that very expensive something still shows up and feeds higher levels as the pickers and dealers both hit the yard sale trails every day. The good stuff gets held which takes it off the market for a given time period. Then BINGO! Someone desides to cash in and the process starts all over. I'm getting up in years now. What is fun for me is to see some things we once held and sold go off and back into the flow sometimes for the third time. On very rare occasions an item we did well with turned three times in a given weekend show. The really good items just keep on a going round and round. Where it stops nest will never be known but there will be a buyer for most stuff if the price is not to wild. Jokingly we worked on the BSTY theory. After we paid to much for anything we worked the BSTY theory.....bigger sucker than yea. Anything good item will find another home...BSTY :)