Right before New Years Eve hubs and I went to an auction and bought a cupboard.

Not that we were planning to or even going for anything in particular.

It was a spur of the moment decision.

 I did mention to him that this auction had antique firearms.  

Hehe, I knew that would catch his interest and sure enough he wanted to go! 

But what surprised me most was how much other stuff caught his interest.  

 While I had quickly looked around and settled into my seat to listen to the auctioneer,

hubs was walking around checking everything out in great detail, 

 then coming back to me to ask did I see this thing or that"  

 He was on a hunt and it turned out he was interested in anything bronze.
 Statues that is. See him looking down over there""

 He was checking out these cute Corgi dogs, a bronze statue by artist 

Elizabeth Leary Strazzulla of Orleans, Massachusetts.

And then he asked if I had noticed the enormous life size Indian and eagle statue.

WHAT"" Why in the world do we want or need that I wondered"

  Where is that going to go"

In New Hampshire at the lake, he replied....

ok... well I guess I could try to imagine it....

and that was only the beginning.  

We would have to wait for it to come up and then bid on it,

and hope it wouldn't be too high.  

I had noticed things like this old tin weathervane which I coul...