Early May was "Spring Clean Up" in our fair city. It's a time of year when you can put nearly everything you want to purge on the curb. The city will come and take it, free of charge (of course, by paying taxes, you have really paid). Rick was walking Sophie and when he returned he said..."It's spring clean up, let's clean out the garage! How could I shoot him down? It needed cleaned out badly, since it had been years since we went through everything on the upper storage level.
While cleaning, we threw out a bunch of stuff. I didn't realize that when we moved here, nearly 30 years ago, Mama lived here, too. With all of her belongings and all of our belongings (and moving to a smaller home with one more person under the roof) we didn't have a place for everything and we put a lot of stuff in the upper level of the garage.
One of the great things about "Spring Clean Up" is that when you put things on your devil strip, pickers come to pick. Things go fast!! We took the first load of stuff to the curb and immediately, a truck turned around to see what "treasures" we were discarding. I just love this...your stuff doesn't automatically go to the junk yard, others come to see what they can use or scrap or whatever!! By the time the trucks come to collect your refuse, most of it is gone.
Anyway, to get to the real purpose of this entry, we came across a ceramic Christmas tree I made back in 1970. I just KNEW it should be somewhere, and I had looked for it a few times over the years in our attic. There it was, resting in shredded newspapers and all dusty and grimy from nearly 30 years in the garage. I brought it in, washed it thoroughly and ordered new light pegs from an online supply. She turned out beautifully and I sent it off to daughter #2 who had been wanting one. (No photo...duh, I forgot!) But I'm visiting with daughter #2 before too long and maybe I'll snap a photo and post it then.
