Getting ready to take off for No.Cal antique show in Alameda. It is amazing what can be stuffed into a Saturn car !!! I get asked why such a small uncomfortable car ?? Well if one is going to live off whistle sales then he has to get 100 miles to the gallon, well 30 or over anyway. Time to dump a bunch of whistles — hopefully. Didn’t get the pictures taken over,  with WHITE backgrounds for the T Shirt order, but at least got the whistle prints back in time to take. Squeezed them into their shipping tubes — we’ll see if they are received well by the public. Do you know how HARD it is to take pix of a whistle display and still bring out the best from chrome to black oxidized brass ?? 2 YEARS on and off of bouncing light till most of the shadows are gone from the little hanging fellas and yet the high points of reflection minimzed. Thank goodness for digital !! Off to the races….

FINALLY got confirmation we can sell at the one day show in California ( Alameda naval base ) HUGE traffic there for one day and it IS an antique and collectable  show. FINALLY get to sell off whistles !!! Can’t believe what one has to buy just to peer  inside of a whistle and then have to sell off to keep from going broke in the process. Problem is that if you sell off, then the minute you do so, you need THAT one for your comparison research ARGH !!!!  Finished SPOTLIGHT 5 today ready for posting ( well proofing anyway ) still writing but going to a relatively invisible website !!! Oh well, one day soon. Going to get our whistle T-Shirts ordered tomorrow that should be fun. FINALLY things are rolling. But will whistle collecting ever take off ??? Do you know what the first two comments are evey time we do a show now ( done three ) first — WHISTLES !!! then…. WHO WOULDA THOUGHT ??………………………………………….. I’M DECOURCY’D out !!! short blog…    frazzled