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I know some of you are waiting for "K" but it's been a harrowing couple of weeks, culminating today when my husband and I found out we have rats living in our crawlspace today. I've been sitting on this one for awhile. It's my shadow of course. I'm only 5 feet, so it was kind of fun to see me so tall!
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jason Lee pulls himself out of a crawlspace as Senior Airman Joseph Brady tends to equipment during a mission rehearsal in an excess structure here Aug. 26, 2014. The event allowed pararescuemen from the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron to hone their breaching, clearing, patient care and egress skills. Air Force rescue forces conduct combat search and rescue and personnel recovery operations. Lee, from Richmond, Ky., is an Air National Guardsmen deployed from the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, Louisville, Ky., and Brady, a native of Phoenix, is deployed from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. The 83rd ERQS partnered with Joint Task Force Trailblazer, U.S. Army 2nd Engineer Brigade, to use the structure prior to its scheduled deconstruction. Task Force Trailblazer is currently demolishing 50-70 wooden structures here each week as part of Operation Enduring Freedom retrograde operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Brandon Lingle/Released)
August 22, 2024
Noticed that Janice's kittens moved in to my neighbors crawlspace. Now I have even more cats to trap. ugh! Looks like there are 3, though only 2 popped their heads out. They wont come anywhere near me. Tommy wasn't feeling great so I took him to urgent care. We think it was just full anal glands.
Behind the beat-up brick facade and ancient sign, the Matador is a pure piece of Torontonia. Opened in 1964, this after-hours honky-tonk hot spot was the brainchild of Ann Dunn, a single mother of five who wanted a business that wouldn’t interfere with her main job—child-rearing. Sounds exhausting, but Toronto nightlife is the better for it: 24-hour party people have been hoofing it here for decades (and the owner is now a great-grandmother). The crowd is a fun mix of Stetson-wearing old-timers and younger night owls looking for one last dance (even though the Matador has always been, ahem, alcohol-free). ---Toronto Life
The Matador was destined to be reappropriated by the city, torn down and replaced by a parking lot in 2007 when it finally closed its doors. Torontonians rallied, (Including Michael Ondaatje and members of Blue Rodeo) and the decision was defeated in council.
Bought in the 2010 by Paul McCaughey who will be keeping the Matador’s iconic sign at his new community living space. Plans for the building include a live music venue, a restaurant, a fitness centre, and perhaps a Russian steam room. The space was set to open by the end of 2011, but still remains vacant and under construction (July 2013)
'McCaughey said he’s working to preserve the building’s past.... keeping the signature wall in the ballroom, which carries the signed names of some of North America’s most celebrated country and folk singers who visited the Matador, including Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, K.D. Lang, and Stompin’ Tom Connors. “It’s 45 years of history,” he said, adding that there must be at least a thousand signatures on the wall."" McCaughey is also planning to pay tribute to the building’s original use, a dancehall for soldiers during World War One. Open until 1920, McCaughey said it was likely the last dance soldiers had before going overseas. Recently, he found an old ticket in the crawlspace of the building from one of these dances, which had a chaperon’s name written on it. ~ Annex Gleaner December 29th, 2010
"We've got you now, you jagoff."
Five police detectives pulled over John Wayne Gacy, Jr. and arrested him in front of this McDonald's on December 21, 1978 at fifteen minutes after noon. Although they only had him on a minor drug charge, they were afraid Gacy might try to kill someone else and himself before they had enough evidence to get a search warrant.
The police eventually discovered 29 bodies on his property--26 in his crawlspace and three buried elsewhere. Four other victims were dumped in the Des Plaines River.
Gacy was executed in 1994.
Located at 7969 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Niles
STUDIO CITY - A man performing a heater repair in the crawlspace beneath a two story home was able to escape with minor injury, when an accidental fire erupted on December 12, 2013. Los Angeles Firefighters had the flames extinguished in less than twenty minutes. © Photo by Juan Guerra
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This imposing warehouse is used for the storage of evidence from Chicago & Cook County crimes, including those of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Among the grisly artifacts stored here are the door to Gacy's crawlspace where he buried nearly 30 young men and boys, personal items of his victims, a ligature Gacy used for strangulation, and samples of Gacy's blood.
Located at 2323 S. Rockwell St.
This imposing warehouse is used for the storage of evidence from Chicago & Cook County crimes, including those of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Among the grisly artifacts stored here are the door to Gacy's crawlspace where he buried nearly 30 young men and boys, personal items of his victims, a ligature Gacy used for strangulation, and samples of Gacy's blood.
Located at 2323 S. Rockwell St.
Model: Kelly Sparks
Body Painting/FX: Matt Huntley
Lighting: 580exII with Ray Ringflash high camera left pointed down towards body, second 580exII on camera right snooted at face, and 3rd gel'd 580exII speedlite behind subject pointed upwards on rafters. All triggered by PocketWizards.
STUDIO CITY - A man performing a heater repair in the crawlspace beneath a two story home was able to escape with minor injury, when an accidental fire erupted on December 12, 2013. Los Angeles Firefighters had the flames extinguished in less than twenty minutes. © Photo by Juan Guerra
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Last week I was picking up trash at my favorite place, Arch Creek East Environmental Preserve, when I grabbed a grocery bag someone had tossed on the ground and was attacked by wasps that were inside, eating packs of sweet sauce from a Chinese take out. Once my painful swollen hand had returned to normal, I wanted to see "who" got me three times and learn more.
The term "hornet" (like "yellow jacket") refers to a kind of wasp that builds a large papery nest. One type of hornet, the baldfaced hornet, is black and white and about ¾" long. They tend to build mottled gray nests in trees or shrubs. Occasionally, they will build nests under roof overhangs, in attics, crawlspaces, and walls, or under decks or porches. The nests, which are generally pear-shaped, are constructed of a paper-like material formed from chewed wood. These hornets like to feed on flies and other insects.
Yellow jackets, by contrast, are the size of house flies, with distinct yellow and black markings. They build a very similar nest, but it is tan in color, smaller in size than a hornet's nest, and is usually found in an underground cavity such as an abandoned rodent burrow. Occasionally, yellow jackets nest in attics or walls. Yellow jackets are scavengers and are usually encountered at cookouts and around dumpsters and trash barrels.
Wasp is a name applied to many winged insects of the order Hymenoptera, which also includes ants and bees. Most wasps are carnivorous, feeding on insects, grubs or spiders. They have biting mouthparts, and the females have stings with which they paralyze their prey. The stinger can be used repeatedly. The thorax of a wasp is attached to the abdomen by a narrow stalk (hence the term “wasp-waisted”). Some wasps are solid black or dark blue, but most have red, orange, or yellow wings or markings. Stripes are common. The great majority of the 20,000 species are solitary, but one family (the Vespidae) includes both social forms (the paper wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets) and solitary forms (e.g., the potter wasps).
These gray paper-nest builders included Australian Pine needles in their structure.
Arch Creek East Environmental Preserve, North Miami, FL.
See my sets, Woods, weeds and streams. And Lubbers, Butterflies and Bees.
The bad news was that we had a water leak, somewhere.
The good news is that it wasn't underneath our house. It was outside, in a buried line, and it's been fixed.
While I was under the house to inspect the water lines, I took a photo that captures the, um, *cozy* space between the ground and the floor joists and sub-flooring.
This construction is typical of California houses built in the 1950s and early 1960s. Our house was completed in 1956.
The Replacements on the Oldies station: I Will Dare
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJcCzWcgPsY
How young are you - How old am I
Stacy: (at the Samuels house, asleep in her bed, her favorite doll lying close to her, its porcelain lips near her left ear, she squirms a little and finally blinks) What? (then whispers, as if chastened) Sorry, what did you say? (she presses her ear close to the doll's mouth) But it's really late, and it's a school night. (finally sighs) Okay, but if we get caught, YOU'RE taking the blame. (she scoots out of bed and carries the doll with her as she tiptoes across her room, and into the hallway)
The Replacements on the Oldies station: Don't count any - Of my advice
Helen: (asleep in her bed, wakes as Dan slides under the covers, beside her) You're late.
Dan: Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you.
Helen: (smiles) It's okay. Did something happen at work?
Dan: No, pretty quiet actually. Just got busy with paperwork and didn't notice the time until Michael got there.
Stacy: (pauses outside her parents' room, hears them talking, makes a "shush" motion to the doll, and sneaks past their door, going into the kitchen)
The Replacements on the Oldies station: If you will dare, I might dare
Helen: (with a little smile) Did you ask him about his sister's video?
Dan: I might have suggested she was given a citation for indecent exposure.
Helen: Dan, that's terrible! (laughs and covers her mouth)
Dan: It's good to see you smiling. When I came in, you were asleep, and you seemed so sad.
Helen: Maybe I was having an odd dream, but I don't remember feeling sad.
The Replacements on the Oldies station: Ain't lost yet, so I gotta be the winner
Stacy: (in the kitchen, chooses a knife from the knife holder then carries it and the doll outside)
Dan: I'm probably reading too much into everything. I'm sorry.
Helen: I should be the one apologizing for all of the crazy things I've put you through.
Dan: I say we blame the baby for hormonally unbalancing you.
Helen: Deal. (they both laugh then look guilty and cover each others' mouths to stifle each other)
Stacy: (trotting across the yard to the garden shed) Okay, but we have to hurry. I need to sleep. (she enters the shed, re-emerging in a moment with an empty burlap bag that used to hold potting soil) Okay, which way? (and she jogs off in the direction of the woods)
The Replacements on the Oldies station: Now, I don't care, meet me tonight - If you will dare, I will dare
Michael: (making his usual evening rounds, stops off at Green Dive to make sure they're not having any trouble as closing hour approaches, and he frowns when he sees Stephen and Libby there, goes over to their booth) What are you doing here?
Stephen: (smiling) Hey, Mikey. 'Sup?
Michael: 'Sup? Seriously? I thought you'd be at the house tonight.
Stephen: I was, but then Libby came over to help me move some of my stuff, and I wasn't going to make her do that alone, and on the way back we figured we'd pop in for a couple glasses then walk back.
Libby: We gave my keys to Ethan, I swear. (crosses her heart) We're taking the path back to The Row.
Michael: But Chris is home, alone.
The Replacements on the Oldies station: How young are you? - How old am I?
Stephen/Libby: (look at each other in confusion, then both put their hands to their faces and parody the "Home Alone" expression before laughing)
Michael: Did you at least lock up before you left the house?
Stephen: Absolutely. And Chris was asleep before I left. Poor guy was burned out from Training Day.
Libby: Hey, I saw your sister's Training Day vid. (to Michael) Pretty freakin' cool.
Michael: (glares at Stephen) Did YOU see it, too?
Stephen: (grinning) Yeah, Libby showed it to me. (sees Michael's frown and sobers) And when I realized it was your sister I looked away.
Michael: Uh huh. Come on, both of you.
Libby: Are you arresting us?
Stephen: For looking at your sister's vid? I thought that was legal?
Libby: She was wearing spanks!
The Replacements on the Oldies station: How smart are you? - How dumb am I?
Michael: (sighs) Not that, you guys are too drunk to take the path home. I'm going to drive you over.
Stephen: I told you he was a good cop.
Libby: He's a great cop.
Michael: (shakes his head as he helps them out of their seats, walking them to the door and giving Ethan a goodnight wave)
Stacy: (jogging back from the woods, something clearly in the burlap bag now) Under the house? Are you sure? Okay. (and she carries the bag to the crawlspace beneath her house)
Marcus/Chris: (at The Row house, are engaging in some afterglow kissing)
Michael: (gets Stephen and Libby into the back seat of his police unit)
Libby: Ever necked in the back of a police car?
Stephen: No. (and they start making out)
Michael: (sighs, closes the door, and goes to the driver's side, getting in and starting the car, ignoring them as best he can)
Stacy: (emerges from under the house and quietly sneaks back inside, replaces the knife in the block, then creeps back to her room and crawls back into bed with the doll, whispers) If I fall asleep in class, I'm saying you kept me up all night. (smiles and closes her eyes) Goodnight, Ruthann.
The Replacements on the Oldies station: Meet me anyplace or anywhere or anytime
Michael: (parks at his house on The Row and helps Stephen and Libby inside, and to Stephen's room) Try to keep it down, you two.
Libby: (to Stephen) Don't listen to him. Try to keep it up. (they both laugh and wander off to his bed)
Michael: (shushes them again, closing Stephen's door, then he quietly makes his way upstairs to check on Chris)
Chris: (is sleeping soundly)
Michael: (watches his sleeping boyfriend for a moment, smiling, then leaves)
Marcus: (after Michael is gone, steps out of the bathroom, just finishing dressing, his eyes going to sleeping Chris, he smiles and leaves)
The Replacements on the Oldies station: Now, I don't care, meet me tonight - If you will dare, I will dare
(Thank you to Fate W for playing Stacy!)
Forms came off today. Lumber is expected tomorrow, and framing will start. The opening for the crawlspace on the west foundation wall makes it a lot easier to step into the studio than on Saturday. They expect to reuse many of the 2x6 boards as floor joists, which makes their use as forms make a lot more sense.
At approximately 0900 hours, a Chevy Tahoe crashed through a home located at 657 N. Cedar Street in Canby. When Canby Firefighters arrived, the crews found a newer model SUV that had crashed through a one-story single-family residence. The vehicle physically drove partially through one bedroom, and almost entirely through a second bedroom, coming to a rest half inside the home, half outside the home. The residences were not home at the time of the crash.
As firefighters triaged the scene, they found an adult female in the vehicle and they identified that the home's gas meter had been sheared and gas was freely flowing from the gas line. Firefighters were able to walk the driver from her vehicle to an awaiting ambulance for medical evaluation where she was transported to Willamette falls Hospital.
Realizing that they could not secure the gas leak themselves, Canby Firefighters and Police evacuated the immediate area, which included approximately 15 homes on N. Cedar and N. Birch Street. Firefighters then had Canby Utility cut the electrical service to the home to eliminate any potential ignition sources and notified Northwest Natural Gas.
Northwest Natural Gas arrived within approximately 45 minutes. They secured the gas leak by digging up the gas line, claming it, and then capping it to prevent leakage. They then checked the home for accumulations of Natural Gas, which is lighter than air and has a tendency to pocket in enclosed areas like the attics and crawlspaces. Once the home was declared safe, they check the adjacent properties and declared that the evacuation order could be lifted.
Once the gas was secure, Cornerstone Construction provided essential structural shoring to the damaged structure so the vehicle could be removed from the interior of the home. During the shoring and vehicle extrication, the homeowners arrived and witnessed the devastation. One of their first concerns was the family cat, which they found hiding in a remote area of the home, uninjured. "Our cat lives in the first bedroom, and its bed is right under the window, right where the car entered our home. It's amazing the cat survived," said David Schindler, the homeowner.
Written by Canby Fire District
Just to be on the safe side, I won't explain how this works. Nevertheless, these eleven sub-components enable this craft to enter and leave crawlspace without the need of a planetary drill.
i play this in my crawlspace all the time.
this game was made in colombia (in the 70s? 80s?) and sold around the world. i can't remember where i got it (probably some junk shop), but it's terrific even though a few pieces are missing from two of the internal panels.
Kruipruimte onder de begane grond. Eén van de ingangen van de tunnels en in verbinding staande kelders onder het centrum.
Strange Business Combinations on the National Road (40 Highway) Brazil, Indiana. US Goverment Notice: These types of operations may lead to a Crack Problem!
MT WASHINGTON - It took 41 Los Angeles Firefighter just 19 minutes to extinguish a non-injury fire originating in the basement crawlspace of a 111 year-old, two story, 1754 sq ft home in the 400 block of Isabel Street on April 23, 2016. © Photo by John Conkle
LAFD Incident: 042316-0344
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Model: Kelly
Photographer: Trevor Loken
Location: The Mill
A catalogue-type shoot.
Natural light
I love this one!!
At the Oklahoma City National Memorial, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
On the north side of the Memorial is the Survivor's Tree. Before the bombing the area where the tree sits was a parking lot, with the tree providing the only source of shade. The tree is thought to be over a hundred years old, and it appears in photos taken way back in 1907.
The tree was heavily damaged during the blast, which took out most of the its branches. Fires from cars parked beneath the tree burned the trunk, and the bark had glass and other debris embedded in it. From wikipedia: "Most thought the tree could not survive. However, almost a year after the bombing, family members, survivors and rescue workers gathered for a memorial ceremony under the tree noticed it was beginning to bloom again. The Survivor Tree now thrives, in no small part because the specifications for the Outdoor Memorial design included a mandate to feature and protect the Tree. One example of the dramatic measures taken to save the Tree: one of the roots that would have been cut by the wall surrounding the Tree was placed inside a large pipe, so it could reach the soil beyond the wall without being damaged. A second example is the decking around the Tree, which is raised several feet to make an underground crawlspace; workers enter through a secure hatchway and monitor the health of the Tree and maintain its very deep roots." The Survivor Tree has become an emblem for the Memorial.
Abandoned schoolhouse shoot. A single child's shoe sitting forgotten in the desk at the front of the building; one of many forgotten shoes. My friend and I ran once we realized there was someone living in the crawlspace.
07 APR 2012
I found this abandoned house on my way to Charleston, SC from Savannah, GA. It was a nice gloomy day which gave wonderful afternoon lighting for this 3 exposure HDR shot.
The fireplace is finished except for the mantle and tucking. We sat a scrap board in place right now, but we have large slabs of maple that will be used throughout the house and plenty to do the mantle too. The lintel is made from a board we found in the crawlspace. The bricks all came from the old chimney in the house. It seems that not a single one of those bricks was the same size!
The Oklahoma City National Memorial is a memorial in the United States that honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were changed by the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The memorial is located in downtown Oklahoma City on the former site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which was destroyed in the 1995 bombing. This building was located on NW 5th Street between N. Robinson Avenue and N. Harvey Avenue.
The memorial is administered by Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation, with the National Park Service maintaining a presence at the memorial for interpretation purposes.
North of the memorial is the Journal Record Building, which formerly housed the offices of the The Journal Record and which now houses the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum, which features numerous exhibits and artifacts related to the Oklahoma City bombing. Also in the building is the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, a non-partisan think tank created shortly after the bombing by family members and survivors to spread knowledge of terrorism and its prevention.
An American elm on the north side of the Memorial, this tree was the only shade tree in the parking lot across the street from the Murrah Building, and commuters came in to work early to get one of the shady parking spots provided by its branches. Photos of Oklahoma City taken around the time of statehood (1907) show this tree, meaning it is currently at least 103 years old. Despite its age, the tree was neglected and taken for granted prior to the blast. Heavily damaged by the bomb, the Tree ultimately survived after nearly being chopped down during the initial investigation, in order to recover evidence hanging in its branches and embedded in its bark.
The force of the blast ripped most of the branches from the Survivor Tree, glass and debris were embedded in its trunk and fire from the cars parked beneath it blackened what was left of the tree. Most thought the tree could not survive. However, almost a year after the bombing, family members, survivors and rescue workers gathered for a memorial ceremony under the tree noticed it was beginning to bloom again. The Survivor Tree now thrives, in no small part because the specifications for the Outdoor Memorial design included a mandate to feature and protect the Tree. One example of the dramatic measures taken to save the Tree: one of the roots that would have been cut by the wall surrounding the Tree was placed inside a large pipe, so it could reach the soil beyond the wall without being damaged. A second example is the decking around the Tree, which is raised several feet to make an underground crawlspace; workers enter through a secure hatchway and monitor the health of the Tree and maintain its very deep roots.
The inscription around the inside of the deck wall around the Survivor Tree reads:
The spirit of this city and this nation will not be defeated; our deeply rooted faith sustains us.
Hundreds of seeds from the Survivor Tree are planted annually and the resulting saplings are distributed each year on the anniversary of the bombing. Thousands of Survivor Trees are growing today in public and private places all over the United States; saplings were sent to Columbine High School after the massacre there, to New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, and various other times.
168 empty chairs hand-crafted from glass, bronze, and stone represent those who lost their lives in the tragedy. A bombing victim's name is etched in the glass base of each chair. The chairs represent the empty chairs at the dinner tables of the victims' families. The chairs are arranged in nine rows symbolizing the nine floors of the building, and each person's chair is on the row (or the floor) on which the person worked or was visiting when the bomb went off. The chairs are also grouped according to the blast pattern, with the most chairs nearest the most heavily damaged portion of the building. The westernmost column of five chairs represents the five people who died but were not in the Murrah Building when the bomb went off (two in the Water Resources Board building, one in the Athenian Building, one outside near the building, and one rescuer). The 19 smaller chairs represent the children killed in the bombing. Three unborn children died along with their mothers, and they are listed on their mothers' chairs beneath their mothers' names.
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This painting on top of wood was a pretty awesome $3 find! It seems like something a pot smoker would put in a crawlspace they smoke weed in, or something. Like something high schoolers in the 1970s would have.
We finally took the pictures of the rest of the stuff from the 7/15/17 yardsale expedition.
Pegasus, crystal ball, dragon, painting, wizard painting.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 6, 2017.
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BACKSTORY: Got up around 7:15AM, made it out driving by 7:54AM and went out until 12:45PM for a total of 4.5 hours (stopped to eat and grocery shop). Spent $55.75 plus ~$4.42 gas for 53.5 miles of driving (30.6 mpg @ $2.53/G), for a total cost of $60.17. We drove to 19 yard sales, stopping at 18 (95%) of them. We made 56 purchases (81 items) for a total estimated value of $366.68, leading to a profit/savings of $310.93.So in essence, we multiplied our $55.75 investment by 6.58. (Also, if you think about it, the profit counts for even more when you consider that we have to earn $354.42 on the job, pre-tax, in order to take home the $310.93 in cash that we saved. How long does $310.93 of disposable income take to earn, vs the 4.5 hrs we spent here?) Anyway, this works out to a *post-tax* "wage" of $62.19/hr as a couple or $31.09/hr per person.
THE TAKE:
* $5.00: steering wheels (2), GT Grant 14", Pontiac $15.375" (EV:$37.80 ($14.90 each))
* $5.00: storage unit, 3-drawers, white, 22x24.75x15.75" (EV:$23.57)
* $4.00: storage containers (2 at $2.00 each), Sterilite, white, 2051, 9x6x12.5" (EV:$19.26 ($9.63 each))
* $3.00: storage unit, 3-drawers, Sterilite, white, 12.5x24x14.5" (EV:$12.95)
* $3.00: storage unit, 3-drawers, purple with pink drawers, 7x8.25x8", including rubber band bracelets (30 bracelets, 5 rings, 3 necklaces, 5 keyrings) (EV:$17.84)
* $3.00: shirt, pink flowery (EV:$4.74)
* $3.00: shirt, black with orange flowers (EV:$5.98)
* $3.00: picture, wood, Wizard with crystal ball, pendant, dragon, boats and Pegasus, 24x34x2", Raisin Board Crafts, 703-971-6738, 7712 Roxann Road, Alexandria, VA 22312, made out of wooden grape trays (EV:$37.15)
* $2.00: plastic tote with handle, blue top, 13x11.75x9" (EV:$5.74)
* $2.00: double lock storage container, Hefty, 15 quart, 16.5x7x12" (EV:$8.89)
* $2.00: toy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, plush, Raphael, 23x19" (EV:$16.69)
* $2.00: storage unit, 3-drawers, gray, frame broken, 22x23.75x15.5" (EV:$23.57)
* $2.00: makeup, blush, Smashbox Image Factory Air Blush, .28 oz (EV:$10.98)
* $2.00: Eric Vergo's Pentagram (like a Rubik's cube that is shaped in a pentagram) (EV:$42.74)
* $2.00: bag holder, wall-mounting, chrome, 15.5x6.625x3.75" (EV:$7.50)
* $2.00: party light, spinning string, HPI Can You Imagine (EV:$3.49)
* $2.00: storage container & baby rings, latching lid with blue handle, 11.5x8.5x6" (EV:$12.95)
* $1.00: storage bin, 16x11x10.75" (EV:$4.79)
* $1.00: incense, Lick Me All Over, Blunt Effects, 12 sticks (EV:$0.20)
* $1.00: incense, Frankincense & Myrrh, Blunt Effects, 12 sticks (EV:$0.20)
* $1.00: 21 plastic hangers ($2.63 based on the 8-packs from the Dollar Store)
* $0.50: drums, bongos, 13.5", wood (EV:$9.50)
* $0.50: skeleton hands, tongs, Greenbriar Int'l, barcode 639277140135 (EV:$5.55)
* $0.50: cake topper (2), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Leonardo and Rafael, 2014 Viacom, 3x2" (EV:$2.32 ($1.16 each based off $6.99 for 6))
* $0.50: nail polish, fortifying base & top coat, Sally Hanson Ultimate Shield (EV:$4.99)
* $0.50: wet wipes container, 6x4.5x3" (EV:$2.31)
* $0.25: hula hoop, 22.5", purple, blue, yellow striped ($1 at the Dollar Store)
* $0.25: spiders, glow in the dark, 100 ct, Greenbriar Int'l, barcode 639277826534 (EV:$2.51)
* $0.25: headband, black with lace bow, 6x2" (EV:$1.89)
* $0.25: pillow, poop emoji, brown, 9.5x11.x3" (EV:$4.88)
* $0.25: toy, stuffed, Garfield 9x7" (EV:$4.25)
* $0.20: toy, Rainbow Dash (2 at $0.10 each), real hair tail, hard mane, McDonald's, 2.3.75x3" (EV:$4.99)
* $0.10: toy, Pinkie Pie, Equestria Girls, 5.375x3", 1 movable joint, real hair ponytail, 2015 Hasbro (EV:$7.00)
* $0.10: action figure, Batman, 4x2.25", 9 movable joints (EV:$5.00)
* $0.10: toy, Pinkie Pie, real hair tail, hard mane, McDonald's, 2.25x3.25" (EV:$3.49)
* $0.10: toy, Fluttershy, real hair tail, hard mane, McDonald's, 2x3" (EV:$3.49)
* $0.10: action figure, Superman, big fists, 4.25x2", 9 movable joints (EV:$1.66)
* $0.10: action figure, Spider-man, 4x1.5", 5 movable joints (EV:$0.86)
* $0.10: toy, Adventure Time, Finn, McDonald's, long arms and legs, 5.25x5" (EV:$5.50)
* $0.10: hair brush cleaner, ConAir, #95288, 2015 (EV:$0.30)
* $FREE: activity book, My Little Pony (EV:$3.20)
* $FREE: coloring book, giant, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Crayola 18 pages, 3 Crayola crayons: red violet, banana mania, olive green (EV:$5.85)
* $FREE: wrist band, Spongebob (EV:$0.49 ($1.95 for 4)). Given to Sean.
* $FREE: skull, yellow, sticky, 2.75x2.125" (EV:$)
* $FREE: nail polish, Avon Nailwear Pro, sheer French pink, N606 (EV:$3.99)
* $FREE: nail polish, Avon Nailwear Pro+, cotton candy (EV:$3.99)
* $FREE: drink cozy, Nightmare Before Christmas (EV:$8.15)
* $FREE: eye cream (2), Avon Solutions Plus, 0.5 fl oz (EV:$9.70)
* $FREE: wood furnisher cleaner and polish, Franklin Cleaning Technology, 16 fl oz (mostly full) (EV:$8.08)
* $FREE: band-aid travel container, Flexible Fabric memory ware, containing 8 band-aids (EV:$1.19)
* $FREE: phone case, space, 2.375x4.625" (EV:$0.85)
* $FREE: vitamin c concentrate packet, Emergen-C, .32oz (EV:$3.50)
* $FREE: single-use thermometer, NexTemp (EV:$0.55 ($5.49 for 10))
* $FREE: sunscreen sample, Banana Boat Sport, SPF30, .4 fl oz ($0.00)
* $FREE: scarf/tie hanger, 28 rings, beige (EV:$5.99)
John Wayne Gacy, Jr., the so-called "Killer Clown," murdered at least 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. All victims were murdered here at his home (long since demolished and rebuilt.) 26 were buried in a crawlspace under the home. Three were buried elsewhere on the property and four were plunged into the Des Plaines River.
Gacy was executed on May 10, 1994.
Interestingly, a month later and at a hotel not far north of here, O. J. Simpson would receive news of his ex-wife's death.
Located at 8213 W. Summerdale Ave.*
*Current address is 8215. The address 8213 has been removed from use.
John Wayne Gacy, Jr., the so-called "Killer Clown," murdered at least 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. All victims were murdered here at his home (long since demolished and rebuilt.) 26 were buried in a crawlspace under the home. Three were buried elsewhere on the property and four were plunged into the Des Plaines River.
Gacy was executed on May 10, 1994.
Interestingly, a month later at a hotel not far north of here, O. J. Simpson would receive news of his ex-wife's death.
Located at 8213 W. Summerdale Ave.*
*Current address is 8215. The address 8213 has been removed from use.
This is the house I lived in the longest, from 1994 to 2003. It was painted dark green when we lived there. It's had a few owners since we moved away...but here is the story of my life in this house:
Sometime in the early '90s, we went to Nova Scotia to meet with someone to design the house. I suspect that meeting was tied to a trip we were going to make to my grandparents' cottage, anyway. I saw blueprints for the new house, and it was going to be this unusual design called "Post and Beam".
I remember being around the property when the concrete foundation was in place, and the basement was empty. It was just a big hole in the ground with concrete walls, surrounded by trees. I remember the smell of construction, which still passes by my nose every now and then. The main contractor's name was Fred and he drove a Ford Aspire. One night before the house was finished, I slept there on the plywood floor with my dad and brother.
During the first little while living there, there were big rats in the back yard. I remember seeing one flopping up and down in a rat trap on the back yard, and seeing another one dead in the composter. It was almost as big as a rabbit. I never saw any rats in the house, though.
One thing I loved about this house was the amount of natural light that came in through all the windows. I guess that's where I got hooked on that.
The front entrance was between those two pine pillars to the left. It had tile floors, a deacon's bench (which I always thought was spelled "diekenz" because I'd never heard the word "deacon" until I was in my late 20s), and a closet.
Once in through the front porch, to the left was a step down into the living room, which was much brighter than the living room in the previous house. Next to that was the 'great room', with a fireplace made of granite rocks and a 28-foot-high ceiling. Because we had the vertical space for it, we ended up with tall Christmas trees. One year we got a tree that was something like 12 feet tall. I remember my dad walking across the beam probably 20 feet above the ground to tie up the tree at the top...or maybe that was to do something else, but in any case I remember him shuffling across the beam.
Next to the "great room" (it was all open-concept) was the family room, which was full of narrow windows, had a built-in bookshelf behind the couch, and had a big TV stand. It was there where my brother and I used to watch Jenny Jones and Jerry Springer in the late 1990s; where I came home from school and saw my dad watching footage of the plane hitting the south tower on 9/11, and where I watched SARSStock in its entirety in 2003. There was also a rarely-used sliding door to the back deck, through which I threw my dog's pig-bone chew toy once when she kept dropping it and I got pissed off. I felt guilty after that, but I'm sure she found it later.
Behind the bookshelf was the kitchen table, where I spent time getting addicted to the internet on Dad's curvy old Mac laptop. This was the time when mp3s became popular.
Next to the kitchen table was a counter with three stools, where my brother, sister and I used to eat some of our meals at the counter.
The kitchen itself had a light grey granite countertop and an island, which has since been removed in photos I saw when the house was for sale in the last year. There were lots of cupboards and two windows that looked out to the backyard. We also had two ovens stacked on top of each other.
Next to the kitchen was the dining room. It was nice. That's all I've got.
Beyond the kitchen were the back porch, laundry room, and bathroom. I hated using the back bathroom at night because the curtain was a lacy, transparent thing and the window would have been at eye level for a tall person, and I couldn't see out when the light was on.
The garage was off the back porch. For a while, we kept the rabbits in cages in the garage, probably because they were smelling because I wasn't cleaning their cages often enough. In fact, once I saw an apple seedling sprouting from one of the rabbit's beddings. I will post this on the internet because I was an irresponsible teenager at the time, and can't be held responsible for things I did when I my judgement was not fully formed yet.
I have a picture of my mom helping my sister learn how to ride a bike on the driveway. I used to have a basketball net in between the two garage doors, but we took it down and cut it up before selling the house.
The backyard had three levels, which made mowing the lawn a pain in the ass. It was nice to look at, though. Dad built a little tree platform for us, and built or bought a shed later on. We built a rabbit run made of chain link fence and a trench filled with cement on the side of the house after we brought back a rescue dog who tried to kill the rabbits. The bottom level had a little pond and a river flowing into it, which was nice. One summer we put my turtle in it while we went to Nova Scotia for a few weeks. To my anger and not surprise, it had disappeared when we returned. There was a greenhouse behind the pond where Dad grew vegetables.
Back inside and going up the squared-off winding staircase, at the top of the stairs and to the left was the half-loft that Dad used as an office for the first while. I don't remember what we called it, actually. I used to play Doom 2 and Sim City 2000 from the old Mac desktop under the skylight. I think it became a guest room of sorts later.
Up the stairs another flight was the actual loft, which started as a playroom of sorts, full of lego and video game stuff. My brother and I used to play Super Nintendo on a little 14" TV up there. There were two skylights that should have had opening cranks but did not, and a narrow window on the side from which we could see out over the city. It got pretty hot in the loft in the summer. I wished we could have had a balcony up there, but alas, we did not. My search for higher living and physical viewpoints continues to this day.
Back on the second floor, the first room in the back of the house was my sister's. It was painted dull pink, although my mom claims it was brown.
Next to my sister's room was my brother's room, which had bunk beds. I remember losing my glasses in his room once, which is a predicament because when you need glasses to see, it's harder to find something you've lost.
Across from my brother's room was my room, which is obscured by the trees in this picture, above the dining room window. I really made that room mine. In the late '90s, I was obsessed with cars, and cut out pictures from magazines and taped them all over the posts, beams, and walls. I became a drummer again in 2000, and a guitar player in 2001, and started putting up those posters that used to come with Guitar World magazines. I also had a few posters left over from pro wrestling magazines...so you had pictures of Ferraris and BMWs up there with Hulk Hogan and the Red Hot Chili Peppers dressed up in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band clothes, intermixed with KISS and Star Wars posters. I had a shelf for my dinkies. Dad made a desk for me in the corner, at which I didn't do enough studying and later put my first computer, an eMac, during the last months we lived there before moving away. By the door was an armoir that I still use today, and on top of it was the TV I got for my 13th birthday. It was a rounded RCA 19" tube TV that made an annoying high-pitched squeal that sounds like the tinnitus I have now. I used to watch South Park in bed at 11:00pm, and it corrupted my fragile little mind. Along the front under the window was a beam where I used to store various small objects. I had a bedside table, and had an alarm clock (which I still use 20 years later) on top of my CD tower. The bed was in one corner, and for a while I had an old AM radio on top of a suitcase, both of which I got from my grandparents. Above the bed was a triangle where posts and beams intersected, and I stored dozens of Goosebumps books up there. At one point I remember throwing my Physics textbook across the room when trick-or-treaters kept ringing the doorbell as I tried to study for a test on Halloween. Out the window, I could see the hill in front of Sugarloaf Pond (which I didn't know the name of until this year).
Next to my room was my parents' room; the upstairs window visible in this picture. It was huge. They both had big closets and a nice bathroom, with a balcony off the bathroom. One day, when there was some construction going on and scaffolding in front of the house, I came home from school and realized I forgot my key, so I climbed up the scaffolding and came in through the window.
Next to my parents' bedroom was the kids' bathroom, which had blue tile floors and a shower with sliding glass doors. It also had a laundry chute, which my sister and her friend slid down into the laundry hamper below at one point. Her friend got stuck in the laundry chute. I didn't witness this, but I heard the story and it was funny.
For about half the time we lived there, the basement was unfinished. The front of the basement was Dad's workshop, where he had rigged up an air filtration system with clear plastic pipes. This is where he taught me how to turn wood on a lathe. Across from the workroom was the crawlspace, where a huge variety of junk was stored. After renovating the back portion of the basement, we ended up with a rec room, a guest room, and a bathroom. At some point the sewer backed up and we had to replace the carpet. My brother and sister and I used to play Nintendo 64 and GameCube down there on an old TV stand. I also set up my drums down there, and this is where I honed my craft and became a half-decent drummer, or at least good enough to impress my friends that I finally had a skill that I could do better than they could, hahaha. I began by cranking my stereo and playing along to Foo Fighters, AC/DC and KISS, and progressed to Rush...a lot of Rush...in 2002. I started my first bands down there and had many a jam session on Saturday afternoons. We made some crude recordings on an old tape deck that I've since gotten rid of (I still have the tapes and recordings, though).
After we'd emptied the house of most of our stuff at the end of 2003, I kept my drums and a few other pieces of furniture there, and I joined a new band. We jammed there for two months (since I was the last of my family to move), and had a lot of fun.
My family moved out of this house and in with my grandmother just before Christmas of 2003. A few days after Christmas, my dad moved to Scarborough to live at the new house and work at his new job. On February 7th, my brother moved up. Around February 21st, my mom and sister moved up. At that point I moved to my aunt and uncle's house. I stayed there until I finished my semester at university. In early April I flew up to the new house for a visit before my exams, and heard Metallica playing on the radio -- Metallica on the radio! Wow! I returned to St. John's to finish my exams, and then on April 23rd or 24th, I got on a plane and flew to Toronto to move in with the rest of my family in our new home...which I'd move out of 6 years later.
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This painting on top of wood was a pretty awesome $3 find! It seems like something a pot smoker would put in a crawlspace they smoke weed in, or something. Like something high schoolers in the 1970s would have.
We finally took the pictures of the rest of the stuff from the 7/15/17 yardsale expedition.
Pegasus, crystal ball, dragon, painting, wizard painting.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 6, 2017.
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BACKSTORY: Got up around 7:15AM, made it out driving by 7:54AM and went out until 12:45PM for a total of 4.5 hours (stopped to eat and grocery shop). Spent $55.75 plus ~$4.42 gas for 53.5 miles of driving (30.6 mpg @ $2.53/G), for a total cost of $60.17. We drove to 19 yard sales, stopping at 18 (95%) of them. We made 56 purchases (81 items) for a total estimated value of $366.68, leading to a profit/savings of $310.93.So in essence, we multiplied our $55.75 investment by 6.58. (Also, if you think about it, the profit counts for even more when you consider that we have to earn $354.42 on the job, pre-tax, in order to take home the $310.93 in cash that we saved. How long does $310.93 of disposable income take to earn, vs the 4.5 hrs we spent here?) Anyway, this works out to a *post-tax* "wage" of $62.19/hr as a couple or $31.09/hr per person.
THE TAKE:
* $5.00: steering wheels (2), GT Grant 14", Pontiac $15.375" (EV:$37.80 ($14.90 each))
* $5.00: storage unit, 3-drawers, white, 22x24.75x15.75" (EV:$23.57)
* $4.00: storage containers (2 at $2.00 each), Sterilite, white, 2051, 9x6x12.5" (EV:$19.26 ($9.63 each))
* $3.00: storage unit, 3-drawers, Sterilite, white, 12.5x24x14.5" (EV:$12.95)
* $3.00: storage unit, 3-drawers, purple with pink drawers, 7x8.25x8", including rubber band bracelets (30 bracelets, 5 rings, 3 necklaces, 5 keyrings) (EV:$17.84)
* $3.00: shirt, pink flowery (EV:$4.74)
* $3.00: shirt, black with orange flowers (EV:$5.98)
* $3.00: picture, wood, Wizard with crystal ball, pendant, dragon, boats and Pegasus, 24x34x2", Raisin Board Crafts, 703-971-6738, 7712 Roxann Road, Alexandria, VA 22312, made out of wooden grape trays (EV:$37.15)
* $2.00: plastic tote with handle, blue top, 13x11.75x9" (EV:$5.74)
* $2.00: double lock storage container, Hefty, 15 quart, 16.5x7x12" (EV:$8.89)
* $2.00: toy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, plush, Raphael, 23x19" (EV:$16.69)
* $2.00: storage unit, 3-drawers, gray, frame broken, 22x23.75x15.5" (EV:$23.57)
* $2.00: makeup, blush, Smashbox Image Factory Air Blush, .28 oz (EV:$10.98)
* $2.00: Eric Vergo's Pentagram (like a Rubik's cube that is shaped in a pentagram) (EV:$42.74)
* $2.00: bag holder, wall-mounting, chrome, 15.5x6.625x3.75" (EV:$7.50)
* $2.00: party light, spinning string, HPI Can You Imagine (EV:$3.49)
* $2.00: storage container & baby rings, latching lid with blue handle, 11.5x8.5x6" (EV:$12.95)
* $1.00: storage bin, 16x11x10.75" (EV:$4.79)
* $1.00: incense, Lick Me All Over, Blunt Effects, 12 sticks (EV:$0.20)
* $1.00: incense, Frankincense & Myrrh, Blunt Effects, 12 sticks (EV:$0.20)
* $1.00: 21 plastic hangers ($2.63 based on the 8-packs from the Dollar Store)
* $0.50: drums, bongos, 13.5", wood (EV:$9.50)
* $0.50: skeleton hands, tongs, Greenbriar Int'l, barcode 639277140135 (EV:$5.55)
* $0.50: cake topper (2), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Leonardo and Rafael, 2014 Viacom, 3x2" (EV:$2.32 ($1.16 each based off $6.99 for 6))
* $0.50: nail polish, fortifying base & top coat, Sally Hanson Ultimate Shield (EV:$4.99)
* $0.50: wet wipes container, 6x4.5x3" (EV:$2.31)
* $0.25: hula hoop, 22.5", purple, blue, yellow striped ($1 at the Dollar Store)
* $0.25: spiders, glow in the dark, 100 ct, Greenbriar Int'l, barcode 639277826534 (EV:$2.51)
* $0.25: headband, black with lace bow, 6x2" (EV:$1.89)
* $0.25: pillow, poop emoji, brown, 9.5x11.x3" (EV:$4.88)
* $0.25: toy, stuffed, Garfield 9x7" (EV:$4.25)
* $0.20: toy, Rainbow Dash (2 at $0.10 each), real hair tail, hard mane, McDonald's, 2.3.75x3" (EV:$4.99)
* $0.10: toy, Pinkie Pie, Equestria Girls, 5.375x3", 1 movable joint, real hair ponytail, 2015 Hasbro (EV:$7.00)
* $0.10: action figure, Batman, 4x2.25", 9 movable joints (EV:$5.00)
* $0.10: toy, Pinkie Pie, real hair tail, hard mane, McDonald's, 2.25x3.25" (EV:$3.49)
* $0.10: toy, Fluttershy, real hair tail, hard mane, McDonald's, 2x3" (EV:$3.49)
* $0.10: action figure, Superman, big fists, 4.25x2", 9 movable joints (EV:$1.66)
* $0.10: action figure, Spider-man, 4x1.5", 5 movable joints (EV:$0.86)
* $0.10: toy, Adventure Time, Finn, McDonald's, long arms and legs, 5.25x5" (EV:$5.50)
* $0.10: hair brush cleaner, ConAir, #95288, 2015 (EV:$0.30)
* $FREE: activity book, My Little Pony (EV:$3.20)
* $FREE: coloring book, giant, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Crayola 18 pages, 3 Crayola crayons: red violet, banana mania, olive green (EV:$5.85)
* $FREE: wrist band, Spongebob (EV:$0.49 ($1.95 for 4)). Given to Sean.
* $FREE: skull, yellow, sticky, 2.75x2.125" (EV:$)
* $FREE: nail polish, Avon Nailwear Pro, sheer French pink, N606 (EV:$3.99)
* $FREE: nail polish, Avon Nailwear Pro+, cotton candy (EV:$3.99)
* $FREE: drink cozy, Nightmare Before Christmas (EV:$8.15)
* $FREE: eye cream (2), Avon Solutions Plus, 0.5 fl oz (EV:$9.70)
* $FREE: wood furnisher cleaner and polish, Franklin Cleaning Technology, 16 fl oz (mostly full) (EV:$8.08)
* $FREE: band-aid travel container, Flexible Fabric memory ware, containing 8 band-aids (EV:$1.19)
* $FREE: phone case, space, 2.375x4.625" (EV:$0.85)
* $FREE: vitamin c concentrate packet, Emergen-C, .32oz (EV:$3.50)
* $FREE: single-use thermometer, NexTemp (EV:$0.55 ($5.49 for 10))
* $FREE: sunscreen sample, Banana Boat Sport, SPF30, .4 fl oz ($0.00)
* $FREE: scarf/tie hanger, 28 rings, beige (EV:$5.99)