It must be Monday.  I know because its time for our weekly “the Coolest” post.  And this week the hands-down, no-contest winner of the Coolest badge is Flipper, our fiberglass dolphin.  He resided in the window of Warren Street Antiques, our shop in Hudson, for exactly four hours before being purchased and taken away.  But he was great, and we were proud to own him even for such a brief period of time.

Flipper came out of the backyard of an aging Victorian mansion in upstate NY, hoop and all.  He was removed by Steve and his dad (after purchase, of course) with some effort.  Steve brought him to Hudson last Friday, convinced he would look terrific in the shop window, and worked hard to suspend him there (fishing line, I think).  We were happy to sell him – there are no bad sales these days - but it was a bit of anticlimax that hardly anyone got to see him.

Hence, he must be shared and appreciated here.  My apologies for the crappy cell phone pics.