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Ms. G is single, no kids of her own, plenty of nieces and nephews and grand-nieces and -nephews and cousins and cousin's kids, and she is a collector, and i get the feeling despite what she thinks few of the kids are going to want her collections even if the kaleidoscopes were the hundreds of dollars kind and the cats figurines all over the house are from a famous guy and cost a pretty penny.
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| Kaleidoscopes, pricey ones. |
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| Some of the many cat figurines. |
She has a 4-bedroom house stuffed to the gills, every closet full of clothes, every room full of her collections and her project this week was to trim down what's in one overstuffed chest of drawers (we're not yet to the stuff on top of it) so she could put more clothes in there.
As we went through drawer by drawer, she looked at each item and decided what to keep, what might be given away to this niece or this cousin or that other relative, what had belonged to her mother, and almost every item had a story, including the opera glasses she won't get rid of even though it's been a few years since she took the time to go to the opera.
Multiple times she stopped to take a picture and find out how much this or that was worth on Ebay these days, this bag of antique marbles, that antique candle holder, or to send a text to her sister, "Do you want mom's (fill in the blank)?"
Much of the collectible stuff she has was bought back in the days when she worked and made good money and would simply buy whatever caught her fancy, and she has a lot of very nice things all over the house.
In the end, very little went anywhere, she simply managed to condense four full size drawers and two half drawers down to two full size and one half, and leave a bunch of stuff on the guest bed for taking to family the next time she goes to visit.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Trim.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
At Al's Used Cars we promise this,
you'll drive away in happy bliss,
but always remember the car ain't new,
if it breaks down, well that's on you!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful Ms. G shared some watermelon with us.
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Today is:
Air Conditioning Appreciation Days begin -- Northern Hemisphere (around here, they last until Thanksgiving!)
Compliment Your Mirror Day -- remind your mirror how great it is to have an owner like you, and look at other mirrors to meet to see if they greet you with a smile
Dipolieia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Zeus as god of the city)
Disobedience Day -- internet generated, but if you have a bone to pick, use your civil disobedience today to let it be known!
Dog Days of Summer begin (according to the almanac, but not in all cultures)
Earth at Aphelion -- @06:06 UTC (Earth at its furthest distance from the sun)
Eat Beans Day -- bring the humble legume up to main dish status!
Fiesta del Fuego -- Santiago, Cuba (festival of fire, through the 9th)
Independence Day -- Belarus(1944)
International Plastic Bag Free Day -- working toward a plastic bag free world
National Chocolate Wafer Day
Stay Out of the Sun Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays; for health's sake, give your skin a break!
St. Thomas the Apostle's Day (Patron of architects, blind people, builders, carpenters, construction workers, geometricians, masons, people in doubt, stonecutters, surveyors, theologians; against blindness, doubt; Certaldo, Italy; Ceylon/Sri Lanka; East Indies; India; Pakistan)
Virgin Islands Emancipation Day -- US Virgin Islands
Anniversaries Today:
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein marries Duchess Sophie of Bavaria, 1993
Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Anne Reggie, 1992
Idaho becomes the 43rd US State, 1890
Birthdays Today:
Moises Alou, 1966
Thomas Gibson, 1962
Tom Cruise, 1962
Montel Williams, 1956
Alan Autry, 1952
Betty Buckley, 1947
Dave Barry, 1947
Kurtwood Smith, 1942
Tom Stoppard, 1937
Pete Fountain, 1930
Ken Russell, 1927
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, 1908
Franz Kafka, 1883
George M. Cohan, 1878
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, 1870
Samuel Huntington, 1731(O.S. date)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"ITV News at Ten"(TV), 1967
"Mister Peepers"(TV), 1952
Today in History
Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792, 987
Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain, 1608
Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret, 1767
Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published, 1767
George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1775
The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens, 1819
The last pair of Great Auks is killed, 1844
Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans, 1848
Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average, 1884
Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile, 1886
The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand, 1886
World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h), 1938
The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad, 1969
First mention in the New York Times of a disease that would later be called AIDS, 1981
The Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland, 1996
Asteroid 2004 XP14 flies within 432,308 kilometres (268,624 mi) of Earth, 2006
New Zealand sustains a major earthquake, with minor damage reported, 2012
In El Paraiso, Peru, property developers destroy a 4,000-year old pyramid, 2013
In Belgium, King Albert II abdicates his throne to son, Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, due to health reasons, 2013
Health insurance company Aetna announces that it will pay $37 billion to acquire rival company Humana, 2015
Souad Abderrahim is elected the first female mayor of Tunis, Tunisia, 2018
The worst wildfires in Cyprus' history begin in Limassol district, 2021
Sri Lanka says it has less than one day's worth of fuel remaining, as its economic crisis deepens, 2022
A study in the UK of the running pattern of the hippopotamus shows they can get going so fast they become temporarily airborne with all four feet off the ground, 2024
Yep ... flying hippos are all over the place here. They can go over the fence even and land in our pool.
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Grumpy MotherOwl commenting:
ReplyDelete"International Plastic Bag Free Day -- working toward a plastic bag free world"
The people inventing this day must either live in rain-free climates or own a car - they never tried biking my 5 km. home with shopping for a big household on a rainy day with only cloth bags or even worse paper bags! Imagine what flour, cereals or sugar looks like!
I am as conscious of the climate and so on as most people or even more, eating mostly organic, sorting my waste (even though I live in the one place in all Denmark where we do not have household sorting), don't own a car, grow my own, repair instead of replace... and so on. My age record for a plastic shopping bag is 10 years. But I won't do without!
I always think some of these agendas are written by young, childless people living in big cities.
That is so true; don't burden your kids with your 'stuff". They don't want it and won't use it.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to be Ms G with no kids just other family. Lots of the things she has mean a lot to her and if she likes them a lot, they are hers to enjoy through her life. It will be a project when she is gone for the family to clean out the house but hopefully they will know the value of a lot of the things and take them to the appropriate places or have an estate sale company come in and sell things rather than just tossing everything.
ReplyDeleteOne beautiful fence which I imagine is around one beautiful house. It's sometimes so difficult to let go of things you've collected over the years.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure why our generation spent so much time accumulating stuff. Now it's time to let it all go.
ReplyDeleteHmm, I also need to get many things recycled, given away etc. 😉
ReplyDeleteGrateful for you dear Mimi ~ you are a treasure ~ hugs ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days ~
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I'm terrible about collectibles, which is why I stopped collecting. Still, I have so much stuff from years ago. I get this from my mother who is also a collector of all kinds of things.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's not just about stuff I've collected, it the stuff I've inherited too! What am I going to do with it?!
ReplyDeleteis that a stained glass peacock?-- it's very pretty!
ReplyDeleteThat was quite the collector story! HA! Fun car salesman poem and a good thankful too. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteSounds like what my mom is doing right now. She had a lot of stuff crammed into her 2 bedroom apartment. Repairs need to be made from a leak so now we have to get everything out which is a blessing in disguise. Nice poem and thankful . XO
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to declutter, too, and it is hard to let go of things, especially if they have sentimental value.
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