5. Be sure to visit our boards on Pinterest!
https://www.pinterest.com/TIASAntiques/

May Birthstone: Emerald
https://www.pinterest.com/TIASAntiques/may-birthstone-emerald/

Emerald is the birthstone for the month of May. It is also the Zodiac stone for
the constellation of Cancer.  Emerald gemstones are associated with patience,
understanding, and foresight.

Feel free to stop by and check out all of our boards and while you're there,
please "follow" us!  We update these boards daily.


6. TIAS.com is on Twitter! Click here and be sure to follow us!
https://twitter.com/TIASdotCOM

We've also started an Instagram page, so please be sure to follow us there too!
 http://instagram.com/tiasdotcom


7. This Week's Stories and Requests for Help

We try to post stories and comments from our readers each week. Send your story
to newsletter@tias.com and we'll publish it in an upcoming newsletter.  We
*love* to hear your stories!  If you have a story you'd like to share, tell us
about it and if you have any photos, we'd love to see them!  Send us an email
to newsletter@tias.com so we can share your story with the rest of our readers.

Here's a reprint of another story submitted in 2002. Do you have any
interesting stories to share?

I'm always amazed at what our readers collect... The whole story is way to long
to print here, so I will just give the short version of how we began our
collection of real (not repros, miniatures or Port-a-potties) outhouses.  My
wife, Sandy, thought it would be a great addition to put an outhouse in back of
our 1910 vintage home in the old part of Sunnyvale, CA.  A few blocks from our
house an old farm was about to be developed and she just had to get the Dooley
there.  We met the owner at a party and he said he didn't remember a Donniker
on the ranch, but we were sure welcome to have it if we wanted it.  So a few
days later, with a bit of help and a flat bed trailer, we moved our first
Groaner to our back yard.  It was only when the property was being bulldozed a
few weeks later that we discovered it was a different farm than the one we had
permission for.

A few years later we sold the house and moved to small town central California.
 We wanted to take our stolen outhouse with us, but the new owners liked the
conversation piece as much as we did, so we had to leave it and start over to
get the 11 that we now have spotted around our small rural property.  We are
still looking for more. ...Doug Hoiles A., CA

Doug, if you're still a subscriber, please send us an update and let us know
how many outhouse you have now!
--------------------------

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-2