Memory Monday

 1979

Two hippies and a baby. 

International Womens Day

 

I am having a problem with time, either visiting blogs or writing one.  I will be back tomorrow with Memory Monday and am working on a day in the life of a woman who accomplishes nothing but is always too busy.  

Memory Monday

Still working on getting my act together and can barely drum up a Memory Monday!   

My daughter visited Hobby Lobby on Friday and found some decor items (for example a cardboard model of an old book, $15).  

She remembered her mother has a house full of many many old things and came here instead.  I had already had the same request a few months and sorted a pile of very very old books for my daughter in-law who put them in a decorative pile. 

All I had left were very very old books inscribed with the names of my mother and grandparents. I had a talk with myself about how I need to work on emptying this very full house and had her come over and select what she wanted.   

We then migrated to a cabinet where she selected a basket and an hourglass that is over a hundred years old that belonged to my grandfather. 

She and her husband spotted another item of interest and he began an internet search. It was a double locking system for a bank safe in the early 1900's.  My grandfather was a watchmaker and jeweler and I am guessing that he replaced the lock at the bank vault and kept the old one. Because we are a family of "keepers".  I forgot to take a photo of it before it left. 

I am the keeper of all things. I have an unhealthy  attachment to inanimate objects. I can remember where every object I have from my parents and my grandparents homes was placed in their homes and I can remember almost every story about every object. 

I have been having talks with myself about how unfair it is to burden my children and grandchildren with these objects that they have no attachment.  I am hoping I can talk myself into emptying a few cupboards and having a family flea market where hopefully I can talk some into taking some objects and donating some to the cancer shop. 

Memory Monday

Thank for the well wishes. Cataract surgery went fine. I was shocked at how painless it was.  Now three weeks of eye drops. 

It seems like we are crazy busy around here (mostly doctor appointments) and we have three more this week. But I still had the envelope of 1970's photos on my desk so we are stuck with those. 

I am starting with this one of me reading the newspaper since my last post had me on this floor reading the newspaper. I read the newspaper a lot in the 1970's. The table in front of the couch was my play table when I was little and is in my house right now and the wooden piano stool in front of the window is beside my chair and holding my coffee. 

I remember this gray coat and gray and white shift dress that I wore once for Easter.  I am not sure who bought it because I look horrible and gray when I wear gray.  But don't my legs look long? This is an optical illusion. 

This is me spreading a table cloth at a picnic. I hate picnics and had a phobia of bugs on food as a teenager.  There seem to be a lot of photos of me at picnics. I'm not sure if we were picnickers or they wanted to torture me. The man is my uncle from Illinois, my cousin Claire is in the white tee shirt, by the process of elimination I think the orange shirt is my cousin Simon and my Aunt Mary Ellen is on the opposite side of the table. 

My uncle, my aunt, my father and me with those long legs which are an optical illusion.  These also show my uniform headscarf that I wore from 1969-1971.  

Trading the kerchief for a floppy hat, I appear to be making s'mores with my cousin Claire. As a hoarder I swear I'm telling the truth when I say I still have this hat. It has red, white and blue designs with a white reversible side and my daughters and granddaughters have worn it, too. 

1971. Me scrubbing the roof of my dad's sailboat.  I believe this could be the last time I was on a boat. I am not a water person either.  

I do not remember ever scrubbing the boat but I do remember the bikini which was a dark orange with a yellow paisley print.  I do not still own the bikini.