Given that we’ve donated mucho $$ worth of stuff to St Vinnies over the past month, it was payback time!

Bessie and I ventured out today to see what karma would reward us with. And verily, while I had no success, Bessie achieved hipster Nirvana:

Portable typewriter!

It did take some doing to re-thread the ribbon. Really should have taken a photo before I un-ravelled it.

The consequence of vaguely remembering how things were threaded.

Finally – re-threaded!!
(Photo for remembering the threading methodology for later)

Message to my beloved.
Teaching Bess that one can type on anything with a typewriter.

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