Sorting Stuff

Cold weather has some pluses. It has kept us close to home and sorting through some of the stuff that we need to "clean out". We have kept many things over the years with the idea that we would enjoy reading and looking at them when we got "old". However, no one wants to admit to  being at that point so they continued to accumulate. Some of the stuff was kept with the idea that "someday" I would write a story about the event or incident and would need the basic information. And, we have done a pretty good job on a few items. But,  I'm to the point now that I am willing to accept the fact that a lot of those stories are not going to get written. An example is files from 12 years on the Seward City Council. I have been off the Council for a year now and still have many files. Yet nothing that isn't already a part of the Official City Records, so after thinking about it for a year, I'm ready to see it go. Now things like this picture will have much longer lasting value. It was taken some 25 years ago and "documents" how we looked at one point in time. I believe Mother had just come from the Beauty Shop and Julie and Heather were just little kids.