Good weekend/bad weekend....

[JOETHECROW]

This is a multipurpose post,....I couldn't help but jump on the bandwagon with Lobey,...Lobe,...first off I feel like a truck hit me each and every day....(I think it goes with this novel concept called work, (as you well know)[] I start my morning each day with a extra strong coffee, and two exederin back and body....anyhow, This was to be my summer vaca., weekend to putter and rest and maybe dig....NOT to be...the only chore I had after a half work day Sat. at the lumberyard, was to tar my front roof( former porch I enclosed) It also doubles as extended space in our living room ...Okay...two steps and I knew I was screwed....there's tin over top, but I felt it give sickeningly....all the 5/4 rough sawn hemlock was rotten and swarming with carpenter ants.....then the sodden insulation, then the frekin' rafters...So,...w/ help from penn digger and some donated materials we have it to sistered rafter stage and blue tarps... Rain forcasted all week,....awoke to water slopping into the front room tiz morn!!! Arrrg! so,...I did promise some good....Good ole' Tom and I took a mental health break to run to the Antique mall and check our booth....(BIG labor day sale goin' on)....Some pics to follow.

 

[JOETHECROW]

Here's what Tom found, but ceded to me when he found some other deals....This little bottle made my day and weekend....

 

[JOETHECROW]

" Dr. E.C.'s BALM"...very crude and clean,...full of potstones and bubbles but not pontiled (and I don't care)[]

 

[JOETHECROW]

The antique mall was a zoo,...and Tom's been trying to accomadate a movie crew locally, so his phone's been ringing off his belt,...the line was out the door, but I didn't even mind waiting to pay 8.00$ for this little gem...(One call, I kid you not, was pertaining to (edit) "a well known movie personality" not really liking his drapes at the retreat Tom helped put him up at.)[8|]...Okay...back on topic.....Here's my saving grace for sanity this weekend. A simple little bottle. (And more help from friends that I couldn't get by w/out)....[] J.B.

P.S.Anyone know who "E.C." was?)

 

[JOETHECROW]

I love aqua meds, when they look like this...Thanks Tom. (and everyone who endured my ramble)...[]

 

[JOETHECROW]

Well Lobe,....I knew you'd be able to relate...[] I hope you can keep on movin'....I'm apalled at normal folks reaction to my coffee (LoL) Lauren thinks the spoon won't even sink....I'm frightfully immune to over the counter pain meds too....Oh well,..shoulda went to college.[] Thanks for the atta boy on the bottle,...yours are cool too (and BOTH pontilled to boot) Joe

 

[GuntherHess]

Anyone know who "E.C." was?)

Good question, not too many people I have asked seem to know the answer.
The complete name of that medicine is Dr. E. Cooper's Universal Magnetic Balm.
Guess it wouldnt fit on the bottle or they were saving some bucks on embossing.

 

[JOETHECROW]

Well thank you Gunth....I was hoping you might weigh in and give some info....by the look of the embossing, it would've been too painstaking to carve all that into the mold.....?[]

 

[RICKJJ59W]

I wish I had your weekend Joe! We got permission to dig an 1778 stone house,found a double privy and turns out it was the new one.Now thats a dilemma [8D]

 

[JOETHECROW]

Wow Rick,...hey at least that means the old(er) ones are still there waiting to be found...I'm hoping to hear from Tom yet tonight,...He borrowed our probe to check out a promising seeming property on his way home.....Keep on looking,.....man, 1778 is pretty old.