12-04-2024, 12:10 AM
The feelz...
I put up my mom's artificial tree the other day, partly to get in the spirit and partly to see how much of the scads of decorations I'll be able to purge. I found the box with tinsel in it that is the place of hibernation for an antique toy bear. He hangs from a chain and in his glory days, if you wound him, he would do a somersault. It was tradition every year to see if he was able to make a full rotation, but he was retired ages ago. Hanging him from the top of the tree, the two of us had a good cry.
My mom's decorations are squirreled away all over the house. Another tradition was a little snow village diorama she would put out, with a Santa in a sleigh, a little wooden reindeer, a skier figuring, and a tall wooden house my mom made. I found most of the parts in different boxes, but have been unable to locate the house. I found some boxes I hadn't looked in yet - a treasure trove of photos and clippings I had never seen before from all across the decades. There's a phot of me collecting Darth Vader's autograph at Macy's in Valley Fair. I don't have the autograph any more. It would be worth a ton now that he's dead...Article's about my grandfather's accidental death with letters of condolence, and a tally of which ones were replied to. All kinds of school papers. I learned from one clipping that my grandmother had a reunion in Florida with her brother having not seen him in 40 years after he left Germany in 1924 to live in Argentina.
I found a photo of the Christmas village from before I was born, with the same wooden reindeer and house, but I never found the house...just the plans for the house!
So much history...
--tg
I put up my mom's artificial tree the other day, partly to get in the spirit and partly to see how much of the scads of decorations I'll be able to purge. I found the box with tinsel in it that is the place of hibernation for an antique toy bear. He hangs from a chain and in his glory days, if you wound him, he would do a somersault. It was tradition every year to see if he was able to make a full rotation, but he was retired ages ago. Hanging him from the top of the tree, the two of us had a good cry.
My mom's decorations are squirreled away all over the house. Another tradition was a little snow village diorama she would put out, with a Santa in a sleigh, a little wooden reindeer, a skier figuring, and a tall wooden house my mom made. I found most of the parts in different boxes, but have been unable to locate the house. I found some boxes I hadn't looked in yet - a treasure trove of photos and clippings I had never seen before from all across the decades. There's a phot of me collecting Darth Vader's autograph at Macy's in Valley Fair. I don't have the autograph any more. It would be worth a ton now that he's dead...Article's about my grandfather's accidental death with letters of condolence, and a tally of which ones were replied to. All kinds of school papers. I learned from one clipping that my grandmother had a reunion in Florida with her brother having not seen him in 40 years after he left Germany in 1924 to live in Argentina.
I found a photo of the Christmas village from before I was born, with the same wooden reindeer and house, but I never found the house...just the plans for the house!
So much history...
--tg