A Visit To The Treasure Hunters Roadshow Here This Week... Then A Burglar On My Roof

Our small city has a population of only around 115,000 so this is the first time a show like this has bothered to come to town. Since I sell collectibles and small antiques online, of course I had to go see what it was all about. Understandably, it isn't as big a production as Antiques Roadshow, but for us it was big enough. The Treasure Hunters Roadshow folks are here for 5 days, so it wasn't overly crowded and I didn't even have to wait in line. And, we all know how little patience I have for that.


They have taken over one of the banquet rooms at our local Clarion Hotel and have something like 6 tables set up around the room, with each table only accommodating one person at a time. Some were there in hopes of getting appraisals while others were there to get rid of things they don't need as much as the money it will bring them.




I was there to do both and was quite pleased with what I came away with. I brought home many of the items I had taken because I only needed appraisals and authentication on some pieces of jewelry that I'd inherited. Some pieces I thought were not authentic stones and not really gold turned out to be very real indeed.







The man that handled my *account* was named Marlon and was nice enough to indulge me with my pictures for the blog. He didn't even roll his eyes, which is the reaction I normally receive along with looks of complete ignorance. He even knew what a blog was and smiled for my picture, as did his co-worker, whose name I failed to ask for.




Still, they were fun and we were done with our business in no time. I came home with a check for over a thousand dollars, for things we never use and didn't want. Not bad for an afternoon.







Here is Marlon using a tester for gold content, which I thought was pretty interesting. With all the great fakes out there these days, I'm sure this little item comes in quite handy, as does the diamond tester.



Then there was another fellow who was reluctant to let me take his photo because I couldn't shave a few pounds off of him with Photo Shop. I assured him that he was still adorable so he allowed the picture. He is cute, don't you think?



On another note, I was sitting at the computer last night when I heard a horrible, loud crash on the roof directly above me. At first, I thought it might have been Mr. Snooty (with the sound coming from the bedroom) but after running in to check on him and seeing that he was safely in bed snoring, I immediately assumed that one of the tree limbs had fallen on the house, since the noise came from that direction.



However, I was also scared that it might have been a person up there so I went around making certain that we were locked up tight. We were. Unlike the movies, I wasn't about to go outside to check it out. It is a well known fact to most people and the police that burglars often enter homes through the skylight. About 15 years ago, someone tried to come through the one in our guest bathroom, but I apparently scared them off when I went in to use the bathroom. If they were scared back then, I can only imagine how scared they were last night. At least this time they didn't shine a flashlight in my face while I was on the *throne*. Uh-Huh. I'm just sayin'...



This morning before he left for the office, I made Mr. Snoots go up to possibly retrieve the tree limb and make sure it didn't cause more damage than the hail had already done. He found nothing. As you can just imagine, I'm now completely freaked out and I'm keeping the pellet gun loaded, for sure. As if I even knew how to work it…. But, it does look extremely real as well as intimidating. Then there is always my electric staple gun, which would probably hurt a lot worse.