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That snake must go to my dentist!

Cranberry candle animal face.

Did anybody else see the animal face? The longer I looked, the more apparent it became!

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Cranberry-scented votive candle in clear glass holder. About 2.5" in diameter. It really does have a cranberry scent - so much so that I'm amazed I haven't accidentally eaten it yet. I've since locked it away in a cabinet to reduce the odds of that accident happening (even though I think I paid extra so that my homeowner's insurance covers this).

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I'm glad you think so! :-)

Top view of the green metal lid to a 0.26 ounce glass jar of Simply Organic dried and chopped parsley. If you look closely you can see "parsley" spelled out in silver in the center of the lid. (Look under the stylized parsley leaf, also in silver.) I like parsley but I like green even more - especially after looking at mounds of white snow for a week now. (Next January I'll see if I can find a magic spell that produces mounds of parsley and just a small jar of snow!)

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One red round paper clip. About 0.75" in diameter. Made and sold by JAM Paper & Envelope company as paper cloops. I got a box of 50 for about $10. Is 20 cents per cloop too much to pay when I could have bought 100 regular red paper clips for just $8 (8 cents a clip)? Of course not. I mean, they're ROUND!! Enough said. (Except... maybe I should have ordered the blue ones instead? Or the green??)

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I wish I could have gotten a better picture but... I may have been a little bit intoxicated myself just then.... *Trying to remember*

I'm glad I don't live in a part of the world that's so windy people need to use table weights! 🤪

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Overhead view of a Tiffany-style lampshade on the small lamp I have on a table in my small entrance way (or foyer). It's about 7.5" in diameter and will never be mistaken for an actual Tiffany lampshade. Well, unless you're REALLY drunk - in which case, could you please leave my entrance way (or foyer) and go back outside? Thanks!

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Yes! And I love how they just slip "IRRADIATED" in there. 😮

Collectible milk cap from the McCloskey Bros. dairy farm in Dayton, Ohio. About 1.5" in diameter. I guess this is what they used to seal the top of a full milk bottle back in the days when a milkman delivered milk to residences. That pretty much stopped in my town in about the mid-1960s, so this top is probably at least 60 years old. I paid about a dollar for it. Was that a good deal? I don't know - and I'm too entranced now by the roundness to find out!

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They need to bring back round dials. 😁

Just needed a drop of Kahlua. 😊

A mug of hot chocolate. The mug (or coffee cup, if you prefer) is 3.5" in diameter and is part of a set of dishes marked Country Blue - Stonehenge Oven-to-Tableware - Midwinter (a member of the Wedgwood Group). Allegedly made in England. The hot chocolate is actually fat-free milk with a tablespoon of Hershey's syrup thrown in. And because no mug (or cup) of hot chocolate is complete without marshmallows, I've thrown three pastel mini-marshmallows on top. Mmmmmmmm - time to go make more!

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Bottom view of a fire extinguisher made by Kidde. This extremely red base is about 3.25" in diameter. I assume that the 2015 in the center denotes the year it was made. The extinguisher stands about 14" tall and (according to the label on the side) weighs 3.5 lbs. Fortunately, I've never had to use it. I think it might have been recalled at some point because of some problem but I never bothered to return it. I also vaguely seem to remember that the foam these "Good For All Fires" type of extinguishers use is toxic and difficult to clean up. True? Is yet one more thing meant to protect us actually hurting us instead? At this point I'd be shocked if the answer was either yes *or* no!

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I would, but... I need to be careful lest I tip of the authorities to the fact that I'm the Mad Popper who decimated Iowa's stock of bubble wrap back in the summer of 2008. (Shhhh - don't tell!)

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A very cold, very snowy night here. A good time to revisit this garden art project that I purchased at a local arts festival maybe 10 years ago. It consists of a clear cut glass bowl (11" wide) and a smaller orange and yellow glass dish with raised scalloped sides. The bottom of the smaller dish has been cemented onto the center of the larger bowl. A pale green plastic Tinker Toy-like wheel (unseen) has been cemented onto the back of the clear bowl. This green wheel has a hole in its rim into which a 3-foot long, dark green metal rod fits. Once the other end of the rod is driven into the ground the glassware stands up perpendicular to the ground and looks like a blooming flower. I had hoped that it might attract crystal bees, but no. I nonetheless look forward to spring and the day when I can put it outside again. Who knows? Maybe the green rod will put out runners and new glass flowers will start popping up all over my yard!

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They are! In fact, we're thinking about doubling the luxury tax so all the tokens are replaced by a public bus everyone can ride around the board for free. 😁

Alas, my addiction therapist has limited me to just one pop a day. :-(

There's no warning sticker on the mallet handle saying no - but if you're inclined to use it this way I'd recommend doing so before the Supreme Court grants vampires total immunity.

The business end of a black rubber mallet. About 2.25" in diameter (though it seems much bigger than that when I accidentally hit a finger with it). I use this mallet mainly in the garden to drive stakes into the ground. When I first got it, however, I used it mainly to get rid of my opponents' houses and hotels while they weren't looking when we played Monopoly. That became unnecessary about 10 years ago when we rewrote the rules so that everyone paid a 50% tax on all profits so The Monopoly Social Service Agency could offer rent subsidies to those players who were a bit down on their luck. This made the game last almost forever, of course, but we really didn't mind after we put a disco in where the jail had been.

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Overhead view of my kitchen sink drain. It happens to be a double sink. This is the drain on the right. It's about 4.5" in diameter and quite silvery in appearance. It's made my sink MUCH easier to use since I put it in. Not that I can take credit for coming up with that idea (which I believe originated with Thomas Edison - or maybe Bing Crosby). Sometimes I just stand over it, cocking an ear and waiting for Voices From The Void to tell me something interesting. Alas, nothing so far. It's like waiting for something good to come out of the mouth of Rep. Jim Jordan. *Sigh*

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