More Kimport

Ah, to be able to blog at all, or to see. Allergy season is here with a vengeance; my eyes run and sting all the time, nothing stops it, and my asthma is having a "hay day!" Busier than ever, but finding dolls, and other goodies, like the RSMcKim artifacts, including a mignonette, a name Head "Ethel" and a paper Victorian doll house with accessories. Last week, we found lots of toys, including a Lost In Space monster, MIP and an airhog for Mitch. Also a good piece of two tone wedgegood, something else I love. Tere was an oil painted rabbit, and some lovely Amis family figures, a very old chalk figure of a Kate Greenaway Child gazing at a collie. My prize was the case of Japanese dolls and artifacts, including a tea service set up as a Doll Festival display. I was still in my nighty when my friend, the gallant gentelman MP wo constantly adds to the Museum, rang and said,"get over here fast!" Our Friend DT was at it again, and he is indeed right that I grew up with the antique dealers! My dad was always "the man in the car," and is asked about that way. I met another gentleman I used to visit in Andover, and he didn't know my mom had died. Everywhere I go, she had friends. I almost can't bear it, in fact, I can't.

The dolls are a comfort, and that and my writing keep my going. We had a successful reading for the Sappho book and my friend's Jane's chapbook. Lots of projects in the works, and I hope to have more with Merrily, too.