Sorry, Santa Squid!

I've not been spending a lot of time on-line lately for various reasons, even after Jeri started teasing me about her above posts.

Ah, yes, I have, ah, "eccentric" tastes. Our house, an owner-built post and beam cape on 33 acres of treed and rocked hillside, is decorated in rubber lizards and rubber snakes, crawling up posts and draped around beams. The walls are filled with gravestone rubbings -- my life's work, pre-1825 mostly, particularly interested in typographic ligatures; how's THAT for obscure? -- maps, and deer skulls (the smaller skulls are on the shelves. I collect rubber squid, flamingoes, hippocampuses, printing paraphenalia and rubberstamps. (I used to have a business called The Rubbersmith, specializing in folk music, Thomas Edison, and gravestone rubberstamps -- wanna buy a rubberstamp company? -- but it didn't leave me enough time to do the art stamping I enjoy. (Come to think of it, working for a living as a graphic designer & copyeditor doesn't leave me enough time, either.) In another lifetime, I'd be a marine archaeologist. Curmudgeon and I give each other body parts, uh, RUBBER or other artificial materials, body parts for sigificant gift giving occasions -- such as museum quality repro skulls, a rubber bag full of eyeballs, a ball made out of rubber fingers, paper clips that look like ears and pencil sharpeners in the shape of a nose, etc. (The 10 year old next door LOVES to visit!) The origins of that custom is lost in the mists of pre-history. Oh yeah, bats. We should really get a government grant as a wildlife refuge (not to mention musicians -- they're wildlife, too, eh?) cuz we've got a nursery colony of Little Brown Bats, a window grey squirrel "terrarium" and flying squirrels in the dormer (drat!).

Goddesses (especially Sarasvati), maps and globes, shells and bones and skulls and rocks and crystals and just interesting old stuff. The only thing I "need" is slate cutting tools, now that I've acquired some direction, good advice and a coupla good books.

Does this help? If my Secret Santa is AllanC, slate from your quarry, but postage/shipping would be mucho buckso, alas.

Does this help? Jeri, Sinsull, Micca, etc. could be PMed.

Linn, the Bat Goddess, Cat Goddess and Type Goddess (would you like serifs with that?)