The Glamorous Life of an Antique Dealer

[patesden]

As many of you know I’m not just a writer, my husband and I also own a country store which combines a full service florist with an antique business.

A lot of TV shows make antique dealing look easy and glamorous. What they don’t reveal is what happens after you pick the stuff out of barns and houses, and pay for it.

Last week, we purchased the

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[bogwitch64]

That's kinda cool! Sludgey, but cool.

[patesden]

There were tons of pickled apples of different kinds: pealed and sliced in a clear sugary syrup, whole crabapples in a dark syrup, apple rings. It left me wondering if she just couldn't stand seeing apples go to waste, if she was known for yummy apple treats--or if they were the one thing no one wanted to eat so they were leftover in the cellar.

[bogwitch64]

You're right...you could get a story out of that. :) Now I want to put a cellar full of jarred apples in my book!

[patesden]

When I first saw the peeled ones, I thought they were preserved eggs and I was ready for super smell.

Hmmm . . . Who would be obsessed with pickling apples. Snow White? I don't think so :)

[bogwitch64]

Ah, but maybe Snow White as a crone would be? After years of marriage to her philandering husband who had a habit of rescuing fair damsels and setting them up in their own castles, Crone White harkens back to her stepmother, perhaps seeing the benevolence she had tried to bestow, SAVING her from such a life, and becomes obsessed with apples and apple magic.

Hmmmm....

[patesden]

You are a devil :)

Love it. How about a new twist on apple bobbing contests--like The Lottery with fruit.

[bogwitch64]

A lot less messy, that's for certain. ;)