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1. Jan and I found this in a canal when we were kids. I think it might have been the canal on College Avenue north of Daley Park. 2. This is Jeff’s special rock. It’s gray and feels like jade. 3. My bestest rock which I found at the East Verde River in 1958. It’s obsidian or slag. 4. John wood gave me a coffee cup he made. It had a pig tail on it. It broke. This is what is left. 5. Cool favorite little pen knife of mine. I think I had two and one broke. 6. I bought these hazelnut pills for coffee thirty years ago. I found them and there were a couple left. There still are. 7. My Gold Key Award from high school art class.  Enlarged View 8. What Pete Shelton called a “tab” which was a rock from Sandy Beach near Puerto Peñasco, México. I made a stamp out of an eraser and stamped a hammer and sickle on it. 9. We brought our hose from Louisville, Kentucky to Arizona in 1958. It was old then. It was a great hose, but when it broke and it was going to be thrown out, I saved the tip. 10. I shot a .22 bullet through this Lucy Lager bottlecap with my rifle when I was eleven or so. I scratched out the word “lager” so all you can see is “lucky.” Get it? 11. I got this weird key chain in Mexico in the 80s with embedded objects in it including a red pyracantha berry.  12. Jeff’s favorite Calipso spoon. 13. My molar. I wrote a lot about how they had to pull this out because my root canal failed after twenty-five years and the tooth was rotting and seeding cavities in my other teeth and I went to get it pulled and the office had loud music and they had an emergency and kicked me out of the chair and I left in a snit and they called back and I said they had bad Karma and got another dentist whose staff and he dressed in American flags and he finally yanked it out. ABOVE ARE TWO OF MY BABY TEETH. 14. In seventh grade, the pencil sharpener broke in class and started sharpening pencils and leaving grooves all over them and I kept this one as a souvenir of the time. 15.  Above and below pieces of bone and stuff from a bullhead catfish I caught in Minnesota. 16. When sonny was born Steve, passed out cigars. This is one of them. 17. In Junior High I took wood shop. This was the first corner of a board that I sawed off with the power jigsaw. 18. Birthday cake candle holder from Louisville, Kentucky 1950s. I saved it. 19. Some chrome thing I think from Irving Coon's Thunderbird automobile. 20. Strip of metal off of my beloved first Laser 128 Computer. 21. Cigarette loads purchased from the Tepee of Toys store in Tempe Center as long as sixty years ago. 22. Ancient Hohokam shell bracelet fragment and bead. You can see how they made the bracelets. 23. Dad said, "Do you want this roadrunner key chain?" and I said yes please and it wore out and here's what's left of it. 24. Center: the jaws of the first fish I ever caught a fish on. It is a Canadian jig fly and it was gifted to me from some guy in the local cafe in Fort Pierre, South Dakota who wanted me to catch a fish. Top and Bottom: upper and lower jaws of the fish ITSELF which was a walleye. I caught it in the tailrace waters under the Oahe Dam on the Missouri River in 1965. 25. A piece of one page of Jan Bradbury's copy of WASP by Eric Frank Russell. 26. A piece paper with my blood on it that prepared in 1961. I labeled it THC for Tom Hascall Cole. I wanted to preserve this blood sample and I succeeded. 27. The great guitarist Tommy Emmanuel (who is considered the modern Chet Atkins) took off with some of my cables and stuff and did a world tour with them and I never got them back. All I got was his pick. Here it is. 28.  I think this is the tip of my costly "ugly stick" fishing rod that the airlines broke. 29. This is Cochise's band. He was a dilute yellow roller pigeon who died in December 1995. I can't read the day. It might have been the 3rd? 30. A strange bottle cap that I got in Barcelona in 2018. 31. When I was a kid I was walking in the cotton fields and found this nail and I threw it and it stuck straight into the ground and I was so proud I kept it. Here it is! 32. Button off my coat when I was five years old. I've got pictures. 33. The lock off of the briefcase I took to work every day in 1977 and 1978 when I lived in Mexico City. 34. Noodles' dog tag. Poor Noodles. LITTLE Noodles ("Little" to make it sentimental." 35. Noodles' dog tag. Poor Noodles. LITTLE Noodles ("Little" to make it sentimental." 36. Snuggle's cat tag. Poor Snuggles. LITTLE Snuggles ("Little" to make it sentimental." 37. Triangular firecracker made from newspaper that I bought somewhere down in Mexico in 1963. 38. Another button off my coat when I was five years old. I've got pictures. SEE #32 ALSO. Buttons Then and Again.jpg 39. Mica from Alaska 1955. Wendy found it. It's hers. I have it. I have an envelope full of it in the box. 40. The only remaining piece of Jan Bradbury's pigeon coop from the early 1960s. Part of Jan's coop walls were made of drywall. This is a piece of that. 41. A silver dollar but I can't remember a thing about it. I know where there is a counterfeit one. I through it under a bush in the yard of the house just south of ours. How I wish I had it. 42. You know. I used to know what this is, but I can't remember now.  43.  Another keychain from the 80s in Mexico like #12.