Back in November before the weather in Colorado turned cold I spent some time in the back garage rearranging my mostly paperback book collection. These pictures depict a portion of them.



Years ago our hobby was to drive around looking for used bookstores and buying the older paperbacks with the low cover prices. We kept track of the books we were looking for in computer databases and carried big lists with us.



It was a fun hobby, and I probably had at least 4000 books in my database. My goal now is to read all of them and decide whether to give them away or keep to read again some time. I try to be very selective because I am trying to free up some shelf room.

My dad installed these shelves in the old garage to display his toy tractor collection. He had a lot of disposable income in his last years so he bought old toy trucks and tractors at auctions, plus new scale models.



We sold them all at an auction because my sister insisted on getting 'her money' out of the estate. I wish I had kept more of them back, but I would have had to pay her retail for them.





Even though the auction was a specialty one for farm toys and antique tractors (real ones), the prices realized were about 1/3 of what my dad had invested in the collection because there were other similar collections for sale ahead of us. Can't look back, though.