Found a weird little ceramic hand in a box of free stuff on the curb in Charlotte

I was walking my dog last Tuesday and saw a soggy cardboard box with a 'FREE' sign, and inside was this perfect, tiny ceramic hand, palm up, like it was holding something. An older man came out of the house and said, 'My wife collected those for forty years, said they were for holding wishes.' I keep it on my kitchen windowsill now, but what do you even do with a thing like that?

Hit 500 brake bleeds on the same syringe this week. It just won't quit.

My 1972 Pentax Spotmatic jammed on the last frame of a roll at my nephew's birthday party.

The advance lever just locked up halfway through. I had to finish the party with my phone, which felt wrong. I took it apart on my kitchen table that night. Found a tiny spring had come loose inside the film counter mechanism. Got it back in place with tweezers and a lot of swearing. It's working now, but I missed the cake shot. Anyone know a good source for old Pentax service manuals online, just in case?

Just realized my new patio cost me double because of our soil

I spent about $2,500 on a nice stamped concrete patio, but the crew hit caliche just a few inches down and needed a jackhammer. That added another $1,200 and a full day of extra work I hadn't planned for. Anyone else in the Heights run into this and have a better way to check for it before digging?

My coffee shop sketches became my best design inspo after I ditched Pinterest

Now my work feels unique and not like everyone else's.