my latest acquisition

I have started collecting sewing machines. I don't know how it happened...really. I have my grandmother's Singer in a cabinet (it really needs a tune-up), a Singer 301, a Genie (looks like Austin Powers' sewing machine!) and I have been looking for a Singer 500 since I first saw one. I mean, what's not to love about a machine that has been nicknamed "the Rocketeer"? Every time I drive by a yard sale I look for one of these. Usually if I see a machine it's some crummy Montgomery Wards model from the 70s. But Saturday I saw it: a Rocketeer in a cabinet. Just sitting there, kind of off to the side away from all the other stuff for sale. Fortunately when I exclaimed "They have a Rocketeer for sale!" my spouse A) knew what I was talking about, because I had showed him pictures of one and he was nice enough to look at them and B) turned the car around without me having to ask. It was marked $25, I got it for $20. It sounds a little rough but I'm actually getting pretty good at poking around under the hood, as it were. I'll take a picture in the morning, right now it's a bit too dark to take a good photo; the cabinet become a prime cat hangout.