WHAT A FIND!

The day: Almost a month ago.
The occasion: Celebrating Kyle no longer being on call.
The activity:  Estate sale-ing.
The find: Books, books, books. 
I wasn't even expecting to find something for myself.  I was along for the ride.  But out of the blue... I find myself in a room surrounded by books.  Old books. 
Immediately I start seeing authors I recognize from the same time period as my favorite author.  But I go through all the books in the room twice and do I see a single book by my favorite author.  No.  Almost crushed, Kyle encourages me to keep looking - lots of more rooms and books in each one.
And so I press forward.  And then I see it.  From across the room, I see a book shelf that looks like my book shelf at home.  Could it be.....? I slowly make my way across the room and....Yes!
An entire book shelf of my favorite author.  The great California writer - Kathleen Thompson Norris. (1880-1966).  I start organizing.  Separating which ones I already have at home and which ones I don't have and WANT.  48.  FORTY EIGHT! Forty eight books that I don't have and here they are at my finger tips. 
Well as the coordinators of the estate sale wouldn't make me a bargain, I was going to have to choose which ones I wanted and leave some behind.  How could I walk away? Every time I see a used and rare book store I go in to look, lucky to find one that I don't have at already.  But I do it, I walk away. 
But inside I am feeling tortured.  I want to go back but I am having a hard time justifying the hour drive back and spending any more money on books.  But...the next day with minutes to spare we rush back to see if they are still there. 
By the time we got there the books had been pulled off the book shelf and combined with all the others on a big table.  So with a little digging I, with Kyle's help, found them.  And as it was the last day of the estate sale the coordinators were willing to make me a deal.  In the end for $23 I got about 50 books.  You can't beat that!

When I got home, I grabbed all my new books and all my books by Kathleen Norris that I already had and thought I would have a little fun with them.  This is what I got?

Although I have already introduced my blog with two posts, I consider this to be the first REAL post.  My first experience I am passionate about and wish to share with you.  Thanks for letting me share.