Thursday, August 4, 2011

Boat-Shelf and Ducket.

The base had an antiques auction a few months ago, and we were lucky enough to get a couple great items.  
(Yes, I'm just now getting around to posting about it.)

This shelf is probably the coolest thing I had ever seen.  It used to be a canoe and was transformed into this:


This is our pet 'ducket' - you know, it's a duck bucket - ducket!  Actually, I think it's a goose, but lets not spoil it.  Ben fell in love with it at a preview weeks before the auction and was determined to win it.  So he did!

The glass balls are Japanese sea floats.  Fishers use them as floats on their nets.  A friend of ours here gave them to us - this is only half of them.  Of all our collections, this is probably my favorite (or tied at least with the book collection).



Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Ox Tail Soup.

Yep.  You read that right.  Apparently, ox tail soup is fairly popular here.  So obviously Ben had to try it.  


And he made me try it.  Not a fan. 



All gone!