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The Fourth of July

Mr. Troutbend has gone to Las Vegas for a few days to check on the house and his cat that lives there. The cat is able to get into the garage through a little vent and then use the cat door to get into the house. There is a large waterer the size used for large dogs and small horses, as well as a good-sized dry food feeder, so the cat can eat and drink if he wants to. Otherwise, he probably drinks out of swimming pools in the neighborhood and catches birds.

I'm enjoying some alone time and getting some projects done. One of them was rearranging the garage. After the big flood I put the salvaged contents of the flooded old cabin in the garage, waiting for the day the replacement cabin was completed. The new tenant, though, has his own furniture and modern decorating style, so he's not interested in borrowing any of the eclectic, possibly charming items that I have in storage. I've been loading some of it - kitchen items and dishes - into the back of my truck to take to the thrift store. Some of the dishes were my sister's every day stoneware dishes when she got married in 1973. When she got tired of them, my mother bought them from her so she could buy another pattern. It's not a complete set, but the pattern is (or was) popular, so maybe some thrift store customer will think they are a find.

There is a tiny bit of nostalgia because the memories of my mother and sister are involved, but the dishes are also haunted because my mother had put them over in that old cabin, and my dad rented it to con artists who eventually sued us, claiming that my dad had gifted that property to them and in addition my dad's estate owed them $400,000. And my sister took their side. Seems like getting rid of these dishes might help me put all that past behind.

And it helps a lot that I tore down that 107 year-old cabin and built a new one - all the ghosts won't recognize the place, and will move on.







posted on June 30, 2018 7:44 PM ()

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I have been setting some old ghosts free myself these past months. I am moving to a newly rehabbed condo officially tomorrow, when movers will come for the furniture and boxes and etc., and I will bid a welcome goodbye to my apartment home where I have lived for the past 15 years. As part of the seemingly endless packing effort, I have been running into sad ghosts which seem to cling to things --- old clothes, old tables, a couple of dressers and a bureau, a desk --- as well as bits and pieces of memorabilia, little tokens of hidden heartache. I didn't realize why I had squirreled those things away, but it has been very freeing to my heart to bid all of them goodbye. I am only taking joy with me to my new home.
comment by marta on July 30, 2018 11:38 AM ()
Congratulations on your new home, and finding the joy. I've always had a fantasy about moving into a new empty place and furnish it out of a catalog like LL Bean back when they had dishes and more things for the house.
reply by traveltales on July 30, 2018 8:19 PM ()
I recently unearthed a pair of bell bottoms with scrolls up the sides and am wearing them again.....they had to be 20 years old at least.
comment by elderjane on July 2, 2018 3:49 AM ()
Exorcising ghosts is a great idea if the associations are not good. Vintage dishes are nice but easy to get rid of. I'm not allowed to buy red or green antique glassware anymore, and I allowed myself to keep up to a set of 4 blue willow dishes, and up to the same for Currier & Ives. I have maybe 2-3 dinner plates of each, and assorted other pieces. Any other sets except a plastic set has to go.
comment by drmaus on July 1, 2018 8:48 AM ()
Most of my dish patterns are by Johnson Brothers. I have 3 different patterns at three different houses, but I was afraid the guests would break the ones at the house next door, so they are in the attic, and the guests get to use a set of Corelle that I got at an auction. I hate Corelle, but it's very sturdy, and the pattern isn't all that bad.
reply by traveltales on July 1, 2018 7:40 PM ()
I am doing my 'getting rid of things that I haven't seen, worn, used in a year'this week--it's fun!

Ah families! They (we) are a strange group.
comment by greatmartin on June 30, 2018 9:12 PM ()
You're on a year cycle, I'm on more like a 20 or 30 year cycle - if I haven't worn it in 30 years, etc. And they're almost in style again. Hah!
reply by traveltales on July 1, 2018 7:44 PM ()

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