Sunday Afternoon’s Afterthoughts.....

While peeking into my old  cupboard of towns one can see in the reflection that the day was bright.  It is less bright now as the snow keeps melting away and we see green and brown grass. Older toys of my younger days and car replica toys of my not so young years. The plastic horse and cow are from my old farm set from 60 years ago. The wooden blocks were collected from the boy’s grandparents home.

The new plant stand, a replica of the early 1900’s furniture, sits behind a real old plant stand also from a similar time.  The round flower stand probably was intended for a fern placed in a parlor.  My Grandmother Brooks of Murray, Iowa owned the stand.  She and a neighborly couple were at an auction in Humeston, Iowa.  She went along for fun and when this piece came up, my grandmother asked Fred to bid on it for twenty five cents.  He of course won the bid and it came home to her living room.  She too put plants on it but first had me paint it for her in with a light blue paint. That time period had to be in the 1960s.

I was at the right place at the right time and I got the piece from my grandmothers house  when it was being closed and cleaned out after her death.

This plant enjoys being brought back upstairs after the Christmas season. It has two big growths like this that lean far away from each other and one small bunch in the middle.  It is funny looking that way but it is so green that I am not going to get rid of it. Maybe the little bunch in the middle will eventually.

I am headed to a memorial service on Monday in southern Iowa.  My dad’s first cousin Leona passed away at the age of 93.  I am close friends to all three children, who are my comings.  Leona actually was one of my mom’s country school students back in the 1940s.  Two years ago my wife and I enjoyed a birthday party for her and her husband Elva for their 90th birthdays.  They also had their 65 wedding anniversary that same month. I spent a lot of years not understand how my dad was related to her but now that I am older I clearly understand it.  Leona’s mother was a sister to my grandfather.

It is a leak looking day with lots of melting snow going on.  The temperatures are low forties but two days of that has really cleared the snow out of the front yard. We are going to get cold again but nothing like the polar vortex experience.  Thanks for checking in today.