Floyd's Emporium

Floyd specializes in : books, ephemera, original art, old photos and snapshots, and weird stuff.

Update Friday July 16 2010

Josie the Book Writer here. While Floyd is relaxing streamside in the Pisgah National Forest (and I suspect working on his Memoirs), I am filling in with TWO new Anecdotes. You don't even have to follow a link for these, since they're

Right Here.

Overheard from our front porch: Floyd says, "I'm disgusted." Granny says, "Why, Floyd? What you got to be disgusted about?" Floyd says, "I told them painters I wanted a pea-colored outhouse." Mae says, "What's wrong with that?" Floyd answers in an agrieved tone, "It ain't green." A pause. He finishes, "It's yeller."

Daddy here. This'n's probably not true, but I heard it on good authority. Seems Floyd bought what's called a "collision avoidance system" for his old green Traveling Yard Sale truck. He turned the thing on and was drivin' back across the mountain from a trip over into the next covey place one night and fell asleep. Somebody woke him up hollering "Help! Help! Help!" and he found hisself in the truck, charging down through the trees toward Piney Creek. The high-pitched woman's voice was still crying "Help Help Help!!! when he got his foot on the brake and steered the truck onto the sandy shoreline. Later he told this feller I know, who swears it's the truth, says Floyd, "That thing musta been some furr-in knockoff. And the seller claimed he couldn't refund my money, 'cause he said, "It worked, din'it?"

Floyd sent us a post card.

Backstory news: JULY 1 update

Bob the Website Builder here to announce that Floyd is ON VACATION. It came as a surprise to us all, too, since that old green truck of his is headed over the border where a recent massive rock slide closed the Interstate for some weeks and only now has one lane open on one side. Dunno why he didn't settle for a trip to the Rock Creek Super Slide.

Since the last vacation Floyd took was a business trip to Charleston (you might have read about that in Josie's story about him opening a store there), it was high time he got a little r&r. We figure if he doesn't run off the mountain or get tied up spinning yarns in the Big City, he'll be back soon to regale you (Josie's word) with another of his escapades. In the meantime, take a stroll around and find stuff you might have missed on previous visits.

Click on Special for the JUNE Feature

Take a look around. You'll find all kinds of things in my Emporium.

Check out that woodpecker on my porch.

He's not for sale.

Mae took this picture with her digital camera

and Bob figured out how to put it up here.

Stay tuned. There will be frequent updates in 2010. The links change when new stuff happens.

Bob's the computer guru around here. I don't touch the stuff myself.