I am humbled the way you start out your Market Friday post. Thank you so much for the incredible introduction. Now what happens when I don't live up to their expectations? Wow! You really outdid yourself this week and I was trying to decide whether it was a museum or a second hand hardware store? Some of these relics are incredible and I am sure will never be seen again and others are just something that your great-grandma might have used. Isn't that incredible? I have to admit that I do enjoy using tools on occasion, but I really enjoy the older tools because it feels more like building with your own hands so to speak. Perhaps I'm not explaining myself quite correctly.

I can remember watching my father and his father before him crafting things with their hands and using tools for help, but things for made so much more permanent with notches and things made without even using a nail, sort of like the log cabin. I can remember my father building things without ever banging a nail in and those structures are still standing today. I am amazed and enthralled by your hardware store and most of all I'm tickled pink that you are part of Market Friday this week. We have missed you and I am so glad to see you back here at Market Friday.

#MarketFriday loves you!

Upped and steemed

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