Four hundred ninety-nine!! Next week will certainly be special!! Thank you, Joyce!!
Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 499
2. Do you have a junk drawer? Several. Is it full? A few of them are. Do you know what's in it? A lot of junk!! HA HA What's in it? One has tools, one has office supplies, two have kitchen do-dads that don't fit anywhere else, etc., etc.
3. When does time pass quickly for you? Weekends always go too fast since I started working two years ago. When does it pass slowly? When I am at work and there isn't a lot of work to do.
4. These eight vegetables are in season during spring-asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, celery, collard greens, garlic, and herbs. What's your favorite? I love asparagus, broccoli, and cabbage and eat them often. Any on the list you refuse to eat? None that I refuse to eat but I'm not crazy about collard greens (sometimes too greasy). Last one on the list you ate? Broccoli.
5. What's the oldest thing you own? I think it is my mom's cedar chest. Tell us about it. It is a lovely Lane cedar chest that she got from my grandparents for her high school graduation (1948). It sat at the foot of Mom and Dad's bed for years and years. Now it sits at the foot of my bed (and has for over 30 years). I offered it to my niece, Sara, and she wants it when they get a house that has room for it. I will have it refinished to its original beauty before passing it on. I'm just so glad that she really seems to want it and appreciates the history.
6. Insert your own random thought here. It is a bit sad to me that the younger generation isn't interested (generally) in family heirlooms and family history. Is that your experience? I look at things in my home that belonged to my parents and grandparents and wonder if I shouldn't just sell them. But would anyone want them? It makes me sad.
"I'm just a little old fashioned" too. Love that sweet little poem. Yes, I do wonder what will become of all of our "family heirlooms" when we are gone. Our kids really don't have room for them, so probably they will end up being either painted and sold at Dixie Cottage by our son, or maybe some other more distant relatives might want them. However, once I am in heaven I really won't care where they go, because I know I won't need them anymore where I am going! LOL. I love that you have your Mother's cedar hope chest. That is really special. And I also love that your niece would love to have it someday. So you know it will be staying in the family. Sometimes people do get more sentimental about such things after a person has gone on to heaven, so if there are particular items that are family heirlooms you might want to either specifically list them in your will (with a history of where it came from) as items that you would like to give to certain relatives, or give them away to them before you get to that stage in life. If the younger generation doesn't know the history of the item then they don't have any connection to it. But then again, I try to remind myself that it's all just stuff that will one day decay and turn to dust. (However many of the "heirlooms" we have have all outlived their original owners by many years! But they are items that have to stay here...we can't take them with us!) Oh, I love all the vegetables you mentioned also. Last vegetable I ate was a tossed salad last night with lettuce, spinach, carrots, zucchini, and tomatoes! Okay, that's all! I enjoyed your answers. I hope you have a busy day today to make the day go faster!
ReplyDeletePam, that is the chorus of an old hymn. I had never heard it but thought for sure you would have recognized it. I don't think it is in the Methodist Hymnal. I need to look for it (still have my mom's!).
DeleteHi Terri: I long for the simpler times, we slept with the windows and doors open no people trying to get in and hurt or steal, tv was limited, everyone played outside, most families ate together not in stages, even food was tastier no hormones and preservatives, ahh yes I miss the simpler times even black and white tv.
ReplyDeleteCatherine
Getting rid of the family collection of "what nots" was painful when selling my house. I kept some, but after several moves, there just was no where to go with it anymore.
ReplyDeleteFunny I am not a game person either.
ReplyDeleteI have some junk drawers too.
And I do love all veggies. You are not too crazy about greens. lol
Well I could not agree with your final thought enough. It is sad to say - but my grands and kids for that matter are really not interested in the past or the stories either.
They don't want anything either.
I do am wondering if I should just trash everything with this move!
Love, sandie
Hey, I will be off internet services for about a week because of the move. I will be back! ☺
Your random thought could well be my own! Mother was proud of her glassware; so sure it would be worth $ someday. But no, I see that stuff at Estate sales, for pennies on a dollar, largely ignored. So glad your Sara has expressed an interest in the hope chest! I think (hope) my son and DIL will want mother's. That used to be my favorite thing to explore (the contents) when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteOh, my, do I remember hating playing Scrabble with my late mother-in-law. She used to use the most obscure words! Words that I never knew were words! When my daughter got married I gave her my great-grandmother's piano (Gabrielle plays, but I do not, so I figured making her wait until I die to have the piano didn't make much sense). I do have my grandmother's cedar chest and my other grandmother's wedding ring. Those are the oldest items I have.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Scrabble!!! Dick and I played Scrabble a LOT during our young parenting days, and each of our kids came to love it too. Now I play it on my phone against the computer. It's fun, because I never have to wait since the computer goes immediately.
ReplyDeleteMy children have had interest in some old things, which made me happy. Lisa wanted an old chenille bedspread from Dick's dad's auction. Anthony bought some of Dick's old guitar amps. Jeremy wanted some art that Dick's mother had painted.