Printing business sell out this weekend

[frankcor]

I received this email today from Robin -- many of you know her as Downtowner. She runs the Tramontane Cafe on Lincoln Ave.

I know this is late notice, but Dave and all you other tool fans might find this interesting:
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Friends of ours are having a BIG PAPER SALE!!!!! this weekend.... Saturday February 21st in the neighborhood:

if you're in Utica... check out.. 603 Plant Street 9am till 5pm...just down the block from the TRAM diagonally from Plymouth Bethesda Church

selling the inventory of a 60 year old printing business..lots of neat stuff including oak type cabinets, tools, vintage advertising, printing equipment,e tc. for more information check out the classified ads at www.briarpress.org or call 735-1436

[dgriffin]

Well, crap! Here I am in South Carolina. Probably just as well, since I can't fit any more printing stuff in my basement ... well, I could try ... and won't be up north for a while.

[Clipper]

Just call the auctioneer and your bank. Put a line of credit out there and frank can bid it for you. Make the credit line for about 15 or 20 grand so frank can have a good time and compete with the big dogs. Or maybe you can bid by phone like they do at Barrett and Jackson car auctions, LOL.

[dgriffin]

Do you think Frank will help me move the stuff down to the Hudson valley?
And run interference with Mrs. Dave, maybe explaining to her we're not really bringing in more printing equipment, we're just replacing the furnace or something?
Oh.... and no one over 5'10" can comfortably walk around my cellar.
But we can get as wide as we want.
Hahahaha!

[dgriffin]

By the way, Joe Mezz said he was going to run photos of Robin's place, mentioned in the first post. On CNYForum. Has anyone heard more about that?

[Clipper]

I haven't seen them yet Dave, and that is one more place I wanted to visit while I was in NY at Christmas time, and didn't get a chance to.

I guess we are planning to come home this summer for a while, but it depends on BOTH of our old worn out backs now. I had a MRI the other day and I have to make an appointment with a neurosurgeon to discuss my nerve damage in my back. I am disappointed. I may have to have surgery, and I am in no hurry to risk ending up in the boat that Kathy is in.

Heck, Frank would most likely not mind moving the stuff to the Catskills for ya, but he is AWWWFULL tall for your cellar.

[dgriffin]

Sorry about your back, Clipper. And yes, I would be leary of back operations. Of course, most people are ... and I imagine so was Kathy ... and consider them only when the pain gets bad. You'll see at least a couple of doctors for their opinions, I know.

Is it mostly pain or a mobility issue? My knee seems to be getting worse, but it's not painful (yet.) It's affecting how far I can comfortably walk, but I'm remembering the initial agony her artificial knee cost Mrs. Dave. So I'm willing to compromise, at the moment.

[frankcor]

Clipper, let's do lunch at the Tramontane next time you're in town.

I can haul some stuff in my Tahoe, Dave. But my moving days have passed by, especially in low-ceiling cellars. And telling lies to the woman of the house? forgeddaboutit.