Success!

Planoamy
You are going to be so jealous.

Today dawned brightly and beautifully. I imagine--I wasn't up until almost 10. But I got up, put together my soldier boxes (I'll explain later) and headed for the post office. It wasn't a long wait today, so I got back to the house by noon and Sweetie and I set out for Radcliff. Radcliff is the city that grew up around Fort Knox, the underwhelming depository for the nation's gold. I say underwhelming because you can't tour it or really get closer than a highway driveby. It's fairly small looking because it's mostly underground. It actually has the appearance of a small prison with guntowers and barbed fences and all. But there's a pretty decent museum nearby which we have visited before. This time we went straight to the Gold Nugget Surplus Store.

The Gold Nugget turned out to be quite the spot. He found something right off that he wanted--the support poles and gear that turns camoflage net into a camoflage tent. So now we have kind of a military version of those netted gazebos you see in every home center. He almost passed on it but I said hey, you are saving all the cost of shipping and it's the real deal not some reproduction crap. So with a shopping buddy like that, it was ours.

Coming back up 31-W which is known as Dixie Highway along this stretch, we got to another local surplus shop and decided to stop in there too. After a bit of sniffing, Sweetie eyed a real find. I thought it was a card table--silly me. It was a military writing desk that folds up into a trunk. The case holds all kinds of drawers and bins for writing gear, and the lid becomes the desk and there's a little seat and everything. It was a good price, and after he went back and forth on it for a while I finally said, hey, it's a piece of furniture for your room--go for it. Bingo. Into Little Green Car it went.

Now we are home and he is antsy for help to get it unloaded. More later!