Your little daughter found that fantastic painting at a yard sale?? I love it!! I need to go to more sales!! I stopped going because I always buy something. Like that antique rocking chair. Which I just might keep whether or not anyone else likes it. Sci-Fi author Mark Ayling saw it on my FB wall and commented,

Aw no. That rocker looks haunted, like it might rock with nobody on it. Keep it.

#GottaLoveMark!
Mark Anthony Ayling spends whatever spare time he can salvage writing stories (often late at night), rearranging his record collection, going to watch live music, attending rugby league games, and watching films. Northern Futures is his first collection of short stories.

That's "swell" - now there's a phrase

I haven't heard since my aunt died, last century. Her hand-rolled cigarettes were always stained with her bright red lipstick. She'd lean up against the wall (making sure everyone else had a chair when our family of seven descended), and if we had known about the drinking game (and had access to liquor), we'd all have been drunk from the number of times she'd say "Gee, that's swell," blinking the way she blinked, unable to smile much due to some sort of facial paralysis or maybe a stroke. She was my mom's stepsister.

"Gee, that's swell" -- you have brought back

an avalenche of memories. Thanks as always for reading and commenting!