Blue Monday: Blue Boat and More!

Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

This Captain is searching for help.  He still can't figure out how he ended up in a hotel parking lot in Ocean Shores, Washington.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

This blue house and it's neighbor are looking pretty nice, in Aberdeen, Washington.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

These two have seen better days.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

Near Oregon City, Oregon, there is a wonderful place called Merrywood Tree Farm.  Visiting there for my cousin's wedding on Saturday, I took a few pictures of the tractor and trailer full of hay ... and of the boys who found it great fun to run and jump.

 Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy ~ Kathy Matthews

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Bargain Book Bonanza #6 and Blue Monday: St. Vinnie's Books in La Pine

For Blue Monday, I wanted to show you these blue books that I bought last week at our local St. Vincent de Paul:

Kathy Matthews, April 2011

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Here is the story of my great book buys at St. Vinnie's.  Luck was with me, let me tell you.  It was 1/2 price day on everything in the store.  Except for the books in the shopping carts outside the front door, but they were really, really cheap.

Kathy Matthews, April 2011

I met a nice lady named Diana, who volunteers in the book section.  Don't ask me why I didn't take her picture.  Diana has all the books sorted and organized, and she will even read stories to the kids who come in with their parents at this cute little table.  I noticed a huge difference in the book are since the last time that I was there.  You are doing a great job, Diana!

One time I was looking through the books here, and there were a couple of other ladies doing the same.  A Bible jumped out at the younger woman and fell to the floor.  She made a joke that maybe God was trying to tell her something, but she didn't buy the Bible.  I did!  I was afraid not too.

Kathy Matthews, April 2011

Hardbacks were .50 and paperbacks 

were .25, in these carts outside.

Kathy Matthews, April 2011

Here is what I got for $14.00.  Really good stuff!  Some Mauve Benchy and a Coleen McCullough that I hadn't even heard of.  A Ken Folliet, an old Julie Garwood, a Green Mile and a Ya Ya Sisterhood, to name a few:

Kathy Matthews, April 2011

Kathy Matthews, April 2011

Kathy Matthews, April 2011

And a bunch of The Babysitters Club 

books, which I have never read.

I also got this book, Beloved, by Toni Morrison for .50 and I am reading right now.  It is excellent!  Some supernatural goings on, but so much more about what happened to former black slaves after the Civil War ended too.  Oprah starred in the movie of the same name years ago.  The movie confused me, but the book doesn't.

So, if you are looking for a good deal, on books, check out your local St. Vincent de Paul.

Please join the rest of us with Lesa and her friends, over at Baja Greenawalt's Cozy Book Nook's: Bargain Book Bonanza.  We would love it if you would post about your great buys too!  

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