pawpaw- I dig those knob people. Might have to add one to my collections.
Yunkman- Those crt monitors are enjoying the shade behind my bro's metal "barn". I'll work on them after a while. You want to dump more off up here, there is certainly room...
When we built this house in 2008 (not the best year to be in the buying & selling houses status but we dodged a bullet and got our older one sold), I carved out my personal office out of the larger downstairs family room. The wifey said that all my non-clothes, non-garage stuff had to fit into this 13x8 foot room. Well, that hasn't quite happened. Much of the utility room is mine and stuff regularly spills out into the family room, especially
ebay listing nights but all in all, the office is pretty filled up. Organization is not one of my strong skills so its pretty chaotic to most viewers. But its generally functional for me.
A few pixs of the less wiped out areas with some of my stuff I've "collected". Most has come from garage sales and thrift stores and most within the past 6 years or so, although the taxidermy stuff (which I did) is older and the breaching marlin is from Mexico when we went on our honeymoon so nearly 20 years.
The wood duck and squirrel mount was one of the earlier efforts and is actually pretty crappy. You'd never actually see a drake woodie in a tree nest and squirrel is pretty bad when viewed full on but at this angle maybe not so bad. The acorn in its mouth actually was there when I shot it. Sort of rare for around here because we don't have a lot of oaks except a few in the river hills. That mount is 25+ years old.
I'm not really into old carved wooden duck decoys but have found some vintage manufactured and homemade foam or mache ones. The one is the middle is purely decorative using pieces of pine cones and various grains and seeds. The painted buffalo shoulder blades are sort of cool but I can't sell them on ebay as Native American art ( I tried listing them) because I don't have documentation that the signed author is an actual tribal member (some federal law or something). But for $3 they're cool and so they can sit there until whenever.
No one appreciated my mink and frog/turtle mount on ebay. The mink is not the best mount and the frogs/turtles are probably too artificial (and it was a bulky shipping deal) so it too can sit until whenever. Considering the price of wild mink the past few years, any others I catch will probably end up mounted on a form but without the frogs and turtles.
If I ever get my table and shelves behind me cleared off, I'll show you my battle fleet I built in early high school (I think the main battle cruiser would probably have rolled over in real life if it ever had done a broadside because the beam of the ship is too narrow but modeling doesn't actually have to be real...).
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