Hooray, the pizza is done, and hope
You don't mind a paper plate.
I got the idea from watching women! LOL
Here's a surprise for you---a big twelve ounce
Bottle of NEHI grape!!!
Am I good host...or WHAT?!!
Yum, yum! Good pizza, eh?
Say, I hope you don't mind if I put
A Willie Nelson CD on my K Mart-special
Compact disc player.
Don't you love "Always On My Mind?"
Next time you come, we'll have corn dogs
For our lunch up here
and put on Kenny Rogers singing
"You gotta know when to hold 'em..."
And who knows...maybe some NEHI big orange drinks...
What I wanted to talk with you about this time
Is likely gonna happen just in our imaginations.
But suppose we were young again, with
all that energy and drive...
With all your vast knowledge of your "Junque" hobby
And my study of attics---we could start ourselves
a business as ATTIC DECORATORS!
Don't laugh, it'd be a piece of cake for us, and
you've "probly" got lots of stuff stored somewhere
In your secret warehouse!
See, there are all these young couples with money
"out there..."
building big houses with huge attics!
Why over there inAmarillo
a pitched-roof that is so big and tall that the story is:
The guy has a gymnasium under there.
Lots of these people are really "at sea," not knowing what to do;
They haven't yet amassed all the great junk that they
will have someday. We could do the job!
How does this sound? "MIL-BOB BELFRYS"---
Or "MIL-BOB ATTIC DECORATORS?"
Slogan: "Are you empty upstairs? We have the answer!"
Now I have done some reading and thinking on the subject!
If we were serious, we'd need a buyer
Who travels to antique and military surplus stores
Why over there in
a pitched-roof that is so big and tall that the story is:
The guy has a gymnasium under there.
Lots of these people are really "at sea," not knowing what to do;
They haven't yet amassed all the great junk that they
will have someday. We could do the job!
How does this sound? "MIL-BOB BELFRYS"---
Or "MIL-BOB ATTIC DECORATORS?"
Slogan: "Are you empty upstairs? We have the answer!"
Now I have done some reading and thinking on the subject!
If we were serious, we'd need a buyer
Who travels to antique and military surplus stores
and buys the kind of things we need---
I have made a rough list of the general type stuff
We'd want for attics!
Here it is, jotted down:
Kid's colorful riding horse, dress-maker dummies,
Churns, old Electrolux vacuum cleaners, rocking chairs,
Cots or half-beds and quilts, wall pennants, old leather
suitcases, and briefcases, antique paintings.
Every attic seems to have stacks of National Geographics
or Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Good also would
be any taxidermied deer heads, or stuffed pheasants or ducks.
Pictures or paintings of jumping bass or trout are big! BIG!
Also a brace of green head mallards flying by,
And the biggie: a photo of a couple of green-winged teal, whizzing
by at eighty miles per hour, over a mountain lake!
Attics need also old nailed-together rough wood, rustic
bookshelves, work bench, or an old desk with atmosphere.
We'd want for attics!
Here it is, jotted down:
Kid's colorful riding horse, dress-maker dummies,
Churns, old Electrolux vacuum cleaners, rocking chairs,
Cots or half-beds and quilts, wall pennants, old leather
suitcases, and briefcases, antique paintings.
Every attic seems to have stacks of National Geographics
or Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Good also would
be any taxidermied deer heads, or stuffed pheasants or ducks.
Pictures or paintings of jumping bass or trout are big! BIG!
Also a brace of green head mallards flying by,
And the biggie: a photo of a couple of green-winged teal, whizzing
by at eighty miles per hour, over a mountain lake!
Attics need also old nailed-together rough wood, rustic
bookshelves, work bench, or an old desk with atmosphere.
Recliners are unsurpassed, with rustic Ottomans!
You'll need kitchen stuff, like goblet glasses, old
knives and forks, microwave, toaster oven---all antique;
Little old fridges from office days...and a coffee pot from
the fifties.
Little old fridges from office days...and a coffee pot from
the fifties.
Isn't there an old adage that says: "If you've never dined
in an attic, you've never really dined!" If there wasn't
such an adage before, there is NOW!" LOL.
Gum ball machines and pop corn poppers of some kind
are great! And a TV, with a little DVD player in the bottom.
Doesn't have o be expensive or new...
Good for the wall, also are
Doolittle's plane taking off on the Tokyo Raid.
Big portraits of great Americans, scattered around...are good.
John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Gregory Peck. Chesty Puller,
Charleton Heston (Moses), Dwight David Eisenhower, and
Abraham Lincoln.
I like historical documents, like those weathered-looking ones
you see, of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights!
you see, of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights!
Oh, oh, Bob, someone will want a picture or two of a
female person, around somewhere in their attic!
When visiting Junque sales, keep an eye out for
Scarlet O'Hara or Kate Smith pictures! Stuff like that...
I find that when I sit in my attic...or read about attics...
Or see pictures of attics, and all that old stuff---
The history of people's lives...
It kinda smoothes out the wrinkles
in my mind!
Oh I know, Bob, we'll probably never do our
attic business, but it is fun to think about it,
anyway! Of course if you see any of these
things on the attic list somewhere at a steal,
Grab it and store it in your warehouse,
Don't buy any churns, I have plenty of those!
Oh, and I guess we could call our Attic-
Decorating-Venture "BOB-MILS,"
if you'd be happier!
Have another twelve ounce NEHI GRAPE
while we talk? Prop your feet up?
*******30******
BY Mil
5/21/13
(For Marcia, who also loves attics!)
Kate Smith
I find that when I sit in my attic...or read about attics...
Or see pictures of attics, and all that old stuff---
The history of people's lives...
It kinda smoothes out the wrinkles
in my mind!
Oh I know, Bob, we'll probably never do our
attic business, but it is fun to think about it,
anyway! Of course if you see any of these
things on the attic list somewhere at a steal,
Grab it and store it in your warehouse,
Don't buy any churns, I have plenty of those!
Oh, and I guess we could call our Attic-
Decorating-Venture "BOB-MILS,"
if you'd be happier!
Have another twelve ounce NEHI GRAPE
while we talk? Prop your feet up?
*******30******
BY Mil
5/21/13
(For Marcia, who also loves attics!)
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