Forgotten Treasures

It is really difficult to get much done around the house when it looks like this outside.

It was incredibly clear day - so clear that it looked like we could reach out and touch Santa Cruz Island which lies 20 miles off the coast.

We didn't even get our walk in because we just visited with neighbors while watching KC and Lulu play on the beach.

But, I was a good girl and put in my daily 2 hours of work in the attic - stopping to smile at memories evoked by little things.

 All bears are corralled together in baskets.

The two bottom bears are from my "bear making days" decades ago and the Boyd's Bear on the right is evoking tears as I am writing this.  

My mother bought the bear at a Hallmark store the last time she ever came to stay with us.

When mother passed away, I insisted that I have it to remember the fun week we had together.

I was looking for this sweet picture of my father at about the age of 3

to use on the label for the root beer we made last week.

I brought down my grandfather's rocker that has been used for 4 generations of my family.

Unfortunately it has a broken leg, but it will be repaired and painted before December 1 to use in my Christmas decor.

I found a long forgotten copy of A Christmas Carol that I always assumed was a gift to me from my mother because I was supposed to be born in December.

From the inscription on the inside, I see it belonged to my Aunt Kay who just had her 89th birthday two days after mine.

And, the address on Primrose Avenue was the house where we lived when I was born.

I had forgotten about this old (really OLD) book belonging to my father's Aunt Irene and brought it down looking for some ideas for place cards on our Thanksgiving table.

I don't know the history behind the collection of these advertisements.

They appear to be all sorts of different advertisements.

I have no idea the age, but I know they are OLD because Aunt Irene died when I was a child and

she probably put the book together when she was a child growing up in Kansas.

Some nickel silver forks will be added to others already in a kitchen drawer to use on our holiday table.

The search for my grandmother's china to use for Thanksgiving is what made me start the attic organization in the first place.

We placed the china in the attic in October of 1997 when we moved to our cottage and I was really nervous when I opened the box and only found plates, bowls and saucers.

A trip back to the attic and a crawl into the lowest portion of the ceiling produced 2 more hidden boxes filled with the rest of the dishes.

Through the upcoming holidays, I will look around me and be grateful to my family of hoarders and all the forgotten treasures hiding in my attic.

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