You Know it’s a Good Day if….

You know it’s a good day if….you go to the used book  store and walk out with these two books for a total of $4.00!

I doubt it’s any surprise to anyone who reads my blog that, on occasion I buy books about the “original astronauts”.  Well quite a long time ago I did buy the John Glenn book in paperback..my eyes were not quite as bad as they are now ..however.. it was a “pocketbook”..the smallest paperback out.  And so to be honest I never finished reading the book because it was too much of a strain.

Fast forward to Saturday Dec. 3rd when I walk into the used book store and found the book in hardback and in excellent looking condition.  Of course I grabbed it right up. And shortly after I found the Jimmy Stewart book in trade paperback, it also is in pristine condition.  Naturally I bought them both and took them home.

I began to flip thru the John Glenn book to see the areas with photo’s when I flipped too fast and went to the first page of the book and low and behold you could have knocked me down with a feather when I found this!

Hello?  An autograph??  Sure looked like it.  I did a little research and compared it to other signatures of his and guess what… it matches!  I was more than excited when I flipped thru the book again and came up with some newspaper articles from 1999 stuck in the book…

OMG! Now I am positive it’s his autograph!!!  Never did I expect to ever have John Glenn’s autograph!!  Holy Cow and Boy Howdy…but I was excited !!!!

One never knows what one can buy for $3.00 anymore! 

Ok, so it is now wrapped in plastic to keep it in the condition it’s in.  It was a used book but it’s in “very good” condition as you can see from the photo I took of it.

I was still in a good mood when I happen to call Debi (of Still With Nothing of Importance) this morning and made her listen to my very good luck! I guess it’s safe to say I am most thrilled and will cherish this book from now on!

So, now I am the owner of a few Astronauts Autographs.  I have Alan Bean and Dick Gordon on photo’s, and Edward Gibson on a photo (he was on Space Lab for 84 days… longer than anyone)  plus I have a second Alan Bean on the print of his painting.  Then I have Buzz Aldrin, Al Worden, and now John Glen’s autographs on books. *big cheesy grin*!