I was going through a box of stuff I hadn't seen since before I became a cancer patient. Things I thought were gone, and things I forgot all about. Nothing necessarily significant, but nice to be reacquainted with.
I found a vintage Christmas decoration I had bought at a thrift store. It's a cardboard Santa face, circa 1960ish, that sits upon a flat paper bell which when fanned out becomes a fully dimensional red bell. When I bought it, I was amazed that it was entirely intact, particularly since the paper bell is honeycombed, and you know what the little kids could have done with that.
Also in the box was a book that I thought was lost. I misremembered that I had lent it to someone and it was not returned, but it must have been while I was in hospital. Since I liked the book, I replaced it as soon as I could after being released from the nursing home. But now I have two copies of the book. It's a fun book, published by the Whole Earth Catalogue and it is titled "The Fringes of Reason" all about pseudoscience and cryptozoology from a late 1970s perspective. Must have been due to all the hubbub that the Leonard Nimoy/Alan Landsburg "In Search Of" series was getting, a contemporaneous book makes sense.
One of the other unexpected rediscoveries was my AM only transistor radio, which was made by LJN a 1970s manufacturer of toys. The radio takes a 9V battery and as a radio it's no Sony, but what it is, and I have the original box, an original Krofft Superstars Saturday Show commemorative radio with Kaptain Kool and the Kongs on the cover. I was a huge Krofft fan. It would be nice to see some of those shows again.
