I’m just winding down after the long holiday weekend. With most of my family gone, these next two months are a simple affair. We had Thanksgiving dinner at my sister’s. My sister’s hubs is a really good cook, and he did a great job with the turkey. He makes a corn pudding that is excellent, too. It was just the four of us, plus my sister’s sister-in-law.
Black Friday found us at John King Books. I know there are a few cool used book stores out there, but this is the Mac Daddy. It’s in an old industrial part of Detroit, near the river. Four floors, towering shelves, that old musty smell. I rarely find anything of interest (that I can’t read for free at the library), but this time, I stumbled across a great find.
I am big into the history of the early American presidents and have been looking for books on Teddy Roosevelt. I couldn’t find a thing. They had big sections on Washington, Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Truman. Hell, I even found a book of two on Harding and Hoover. There wasn’t a damn thing on Teddy. On a lark, I started picking through the FDR section, hoping that maybe something got misfired.
I struck paydirt. A first edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s, Africa Game Trails.
It’s all about his expeditions to Africa.
I spent the rest of the weekend curled up with it by the fire. 😉
Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
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