Secondhand roses
Second Time Around Quality Thrift & Consignment, 332 Main St., Longmont; 303-776-4245
Thrifty keen.
This clean, well-lit thrift and consignment store offers some jaw-dropping bargains. Among the deals available last week: a vintage overstuffed chair with wooden carved-claw feet ($30), a vintage Mirco arcade foosball table ($305), lots of great clothing (mostly under $5 apiece) and three bins of plush toys that included Scabbers (the Harry Potter series rat) and that dancing gopher from “Caddyshack” ($1 to $3, depending on size).
From bad to verse
“There Was a Man Who Loved a Rat,” by Gerda Rovetch, illustrated by Lissa Rovetch (Philomel Books, $14.99)
Odious odes.
Boulder resident Gerda Rovetch and her daughter, illustrator Lissa Rovetch, collaborated on 14 comical four-line poems about extremely unlikely individuals — a prune lover, a lizard-chewer, a lobster-wielding gangster, the victim of vicious hamsters. The duo sign their book at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, and at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Geocache & carry
Vintage silver coin geocaches, Boyd Lake State Park, U.S. 34, Loveland; 970-669-1739
High tech treasure hunt
Spring’s here, so come out and play geocaching, a treasure- hunting game. Coordinates are programmed into a hand-held global positioning system receiver, leading players to the cache. Usually there’s a log book, along with the treasure, to record a find and comments. So far this month, Boyd Lake geocache seekers unearthed a 1964 Kennedy silver half-dollar and an 1887 silver dollar. Hard- and-fast rule: Leave the treasure for other players.
