Ben came up this morning and put this bookcase back together for me after his moving it up from the house. He understood how the little clips fit that hold the shelves and got it back in shape without near the frustration I "suffered" in attempting to do it. It was a real pleasure putting some of my models on it. Carolyn ordered some wider shelving that we thought Elaine and I could share in our "Den" room. It was easy to set up and we promptly set some things on it when we learned that Julie, John and the kids were coming to visit. I purposely put the 2 Texaco trucks on a shelf where Jack could reach them since they were his favorites down at the house. We even played a Polka on the record player for Jack this evening for the first time up here. I keep shuffling models to have the ones I like best in our limited space. The new bookcases are 2 stacked and may not stay in this location, like most things involved in a move of this kind, there are alternatives. As we work at setting priorities, we realize that the things we can interact with like the computer, TV, phone and people, are more important in our new lifestyle than models, books, and other things on a shelf (Unless they represent a story like the fruit jar on top of the first bookcase). 
Sooooooooooooo, what does the quart fruit jar represent?
ReplyDeleteWhen we learned that Elaine was pregnant with our first child, we painted the fruit jar blue and put pictures of a little boy and girl on it. Every two weeks when I got paid, we put $5.00 in the jar. When Verlon was born we had saved enough to pay the Dr. and Hospital bill. We repeated the process through the next three. We had no medical insurance in those days.
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