APRIL 18, 2026 // POP'S GARDENS SIDEWALK SALE # 3

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

On this date we endeavored to promote Pop’s Gardens, our small business, and to make some money selling art we made and tools and instruments we no longer used.

The sale was successful. We met lots of neighbors and friends and made about 600 dollars. We worked really hard and long so that’s not much money. I like how Keith Richards kept a journal of how much money the Rolling Stones got paid for each show they did in London and other small English towns early on, and I like reading baseball box scores in the newspaper.

I sold a combination tape player, radio, cd player that I purchased at the Sharper Image located at the Inner Harbor shopping area of Baltimore, Maryland when I was thirteen years old with my friends Sarah and Rachel Bizer who were visiting from Massachusetts. I listened to a lot of cds and tapes and baseball games on that player over the years. It played music at many parties in San Francisco at my house, and at a beach house I went on a vacation with my family to in North Carolina as a child. The CD player part of it no longer worked very well and there was paint spilled on it from when I hastily painted my house in order to move away for that long period that started in 2014. A smiling Russian man bought it for 5 dollars.

I sold a wheel barrow I bought to move rocks and bark at a project in Sonoma county to a guy who jumped off a work truck and offered me cash. I forget now how much but I think around forty dollars.

I sold a plate joiner I bought to make cabinets efficiently but didn’t really use because the people didn’t want the cabinets to look like they were made out of plywood. I think I got sixty bucks or so for that.

I sold some boxes and boards that serve as artistic wall hangings for bromeliads and sea shells that Joni helped me make for a holiday craft sale at the Rock Band Land Music school that didn’t wind up selling there.

I sold some other items that I forgot and some that are pictured below. Joni sold lots of clothes and some dishes.

Also, I met Joni’s friends and her cousin. They were really nice and liked looking around my garage archive room and how organized it is. This effort now in typing is an attempt to take a step further than just having everything accounted for and in its proper place in time. I don’t know what will happen, or if I will have time later to edit and format it better, but I had it on my list to write all this down, and now I have.

Joni made this very good flyer for the event. Sometimes the amount of effort we put into our work shows up a long time later. This is a digital collage. The sale had the feeling of being a long the side of a river and this picture looks like that. Also, I’ve wondered whether Cabrillo Street used to be a river that went to the sea.

I sold some of these VHS tapes from childhood. I remember the ending of the Bob Marley one is good. It’s some nice footage of the sun going down in Jamaica.

I sold this midi controller I used while traveling between 2014 and 2018. Everything you don’t use you are meant to sell.

I sold one of these birdhouses to my very nice neighbor Keith. It takes a long time to make these birdhouses and I wonder if I spend too much time keeping track of what happens to them, where they go, or making them at all.