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I ride motorcycles, am a beekeeper, run bingo at the VFW, enjoy gardening & stargazing, keep snakes and tarantulas, and I collect vintage shaving stuff, creepy dolls, clowns, uranium glass, medical oddities, human skulls, and just about anything creepy or macabre.
Unfortunately that is anywhere in Florida. My first house was $130,000 in 2008, now, could not find anything under $600,000.
What made you start collecting uranium glass? I have only ever seen pictures of it.
I ride motorcycles, am a beekeeper, run bingo at the VFW, enjoy gardening & stargazing, keep snakes and tarantulas, and I collect vintage shaving stuff, creepy dolls, clowns, uranium glass, medical oddities, human skulls, and just about anything creepy or macabre.
It was a combination of a few things. I had an ex-girlfriend that collected depression era glass, and we discovered uranium glass together. I have a background in nuclear weapons in the military, so something that contains uranium I thought was pretty cool. And I've long loved things that glow under a blacklight (like scorpions and certain rocks), so once I discovered that uranium glows extremely brightly under a blacklight I was hooked. I love the thrill of the hunt and finding pieces in the wild. That goes for all of my collections. I just love antique stores.
Interesting. I do not have many antiques; though, I do have some old pocket watches. I do not think any of them glow under black light.
The hands or parts of the face might!
Yes, when I was young, Chris was the second most common name in the 1980s. Now, my girlfriend said I am the only one she ever met.
You must have a very young girlfriend!
She is actually about two years older than me, but she did not grow up in America, and Miami really is another world.
