I love to see what's on other people's shelves! Any interior view of any OSer's home-twenty piques my curiosity. I expect there are others who share my prurient interest.
So, here are some of my favorite shelves. (Click to enlarge any of these images.)
This is the Bark Museum. It has been a work in progress for many moons. It needs dusting, but I don't often dust.
I built this bookcase in junior high shop class. I received a "B" on it. A lot of jocks and future dittoheads scored better on the assignment. It was their brief moment in the academic sun; most couldn't stand the glare. Up top, that's a 3-gallon jug containing my retirement nest egg. When it gets full, I'll tell the man to take this job and shove it!
More books, along with a few mementos and a grandbaby, being precious. My friend Little Ricky built these shelves from surplus materials liberated from the UT Drama Department, way back in the day.
This is Orange Room. It is only coincidental I am twice a University of Texas grad (a two-time loser?). This is, officially, my study. Here you can see The Happy Buddha, along with a variety of toys. Look, there's an obsolete stereo system, a Dell desktop system used only for balancing the checkbook, my grandfather's old wind-up clock and Mr. Incredible. And a lava lamp that just screams lame babyboomer chic. Whatever abuse you choose to heap on me for this tacky eclectic display is well-deserved.
My wife is going to kill me when she sees I have opened up our home in this way. But let me say that these shelves represent my space. Her stuff is much nicer. And she dusts.
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ta da
I like your shelves - they exhibit character and reveal a life well-lived.
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Thanks for sharing. This was a great idea. It lets us all connect a bit. I'm off to shoot some photos.
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party--yes, three strikes makes you out! I loved Garner & Smith. It always made me feel smart to walk into their store. The Drag has really gone down hill in the years they've been gone from there.
Linda, I've read most of those books. I do need to dust them. Laura won't dust them, either. And those jars are full of pears that I put up awhile back. We gave them as parting gifts to guests for awhile, but now they are relics of a bygone era.
Jimmy, when my 401K was down 50% last year, my pennies held their value. They're quite the hedge.
bobbot, don't tease us! We all want to see your shelves now.
Brinna, it's some pretty cool bark. Along with a nice collection of the seed pods of a plant called 'Devil's Claw', which are exquisite!
WomanBlogging, the horse is out of the barn on my wife seeing the post, as I cross-posted on FaceBook. Thanks for liking The Orange Room. We almost never go back there, since the invention of laptops. When I fire up the lava lamp, it is really special.
Thanks, Blue! That's a pretty nifty lamp, though it has an intermittent open circuit that makes me suspicious about using it now. Did yours do that? The store that sold it to me acted like it was new. I want to see what's on your shelves, and I would love to know what books we share.
The Anaconda Stain
Harry Ate the Spa
Pushpin
Awesome Dove
The White Woman
Lord of the Files
Letters from the Tooth
The Religious Call Against iPods
A Civil Tong
Strictly Spanking
The Flatulence of Al
Naturalists Being Bored
A Child is Mom
Seussical Methods
And I barely made it through one shelf. Plenty of good reading here.
Cindy, Strictly Spanking was not the best book on parenting I ever read, but Seussical Methods is pretty useful for anyone who works in state government. Harry Ate the Spa is one of just an example of when dieting books go bad.
O'Really, this is no joke: my nest egg jar actually has a Hershey's kiss on top: a big one that serves as the lid. And though people make fun of my penny stock, last year when everybody else's portfolios were losing half their value, my jar went up 10 per cents.
thanks for sharing all your beloved books and treasures, i love the bark/wood collection. i love driftwood and have several pieces around the house and yard.
rated for guts in sharing despite your wife's warnings.
Debbs4, those are home-canned pears, from about 2003. They tasted pretty good in 2004, but now they are simply collectors items.
I'm claiming fair use on the rocket.
Wow, I haven't heard "sir" in awhile. I think you're just trying to make me feel old.
:)
Stellaa, too bad you weren't teaching wood shop in 1971.
Rated!
It cannot be dusted!
Therefore, I shan't dust.
I'll bet I could move the dust somewhere else with the blower.
But that would be wrong, on so many levels.