Posted by grelmar on June 10th, 2007
Subtitle: “Artist” might be too strong a word…
If you read this blog a lot (all 3 of you out there), you might get the sense that I’m a bit nostalgic for “old stuff.” My ‘76 Impala wagon, the J2W2 Bus (which, I’m slowly bringing my wife around to thinking is a good idea), and some of the other random comments I’ve made in other posts. And if that’s the sense you get, then you’d be right. 3/4 of the shelves in my home office are packed with random old stuff. A turn of the century Underwood typewriter, some old box cameras and an even older accordian front Kodak, an original release 1979 Millenium Falcon , that I know is original because I got it for Christmas in 1979. An old hand crank Singer sewing machine, and my great-grandmother’s complete 8 setting fancy dinner china set. And on and on and on.
I tend to gather up random old stuff without even paying attention, and this has lead to some interesting conversations with my ever so patient wife. I’m not being sarcastic when I say that she’s patient, either. How many women do you know out there who can take the sudden acquisition of a camperized ‘67 Cardinal Coach school bus, complete with shag carpet, and not have an aneurysm?
Anyway, one of the things I’ve been acquiring over the past few years, is a collection of old pop-out storm windows with wood frames. They represent, to me, an era of construction that went away about 50 years ago. Essentially, I think they look kinda neat. I had no clear idea what I was going to do with them, just knew that I wanted to have a half dozen or so kicking around. Read the rest of this entry »
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