Hey Don! Your tops had a great weekend. They were out of their boxes and spinning all over the place. They not only were out to play but they also were cleaned up a bit. How nice to have that good old Rochester earth here in Miamisburg. There were so many kind top spinners here and they all went around visiting your little friends. Some liked your tops so much that they adopted them and now they are in places like New York, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Wisconsin, California and even the Phillipines.
I have slowly been trying to find ways to gather them together in groups so they might be easier to find. I really like the clear tubs that are a step down from the large size. That way they can be seen through the sides and one can also dump the box out on a table fairly easily. There are four full boxes of those loose tops right now. Peg tops still in wrappers that can be used to teach others how to throw are in one big cardboard box. Plastic toy top items are in another big box and I can get to them to make more top friends. There is one large box of optic tops and several boxes of yogo strings. I plan on putting all the games in clear long shoe containers that are designed to fit under the bed but I will fit them out in the hall of fame to keep my wife happy. The pump tops will be boxed up today and I have friends who want them and will love them. Gyroscopes are in one place. Dreidels are in another place. I need new clear containers for Japanese tops, historic tops and other odds and ends that I am searching through. And, of course, there are three big boxes of giant wood flipovers with launchers from Switzerland. So far, that is my first major report on your happy little friends.