Posted by ScottyHOMEy on October 13, 2008 at 21:03:03 from (71.241.201.4):
In Reply to: Letting things go posted by 37chief on October 13, 2008 at 19:36:04:
If you can do something reasonable to keep the stuff and still make the space you're trying to, trust me, it'll be worth it.
Grandpa had a sale after he had to quit farming. I saw some things on the sale flyer that I felt shouldn't ever leave the family, so I lugged the thousand miles out to the sale. Left my number in the air and kept nodding my head while the important stuff was up for bid and got all of what I went for. There were a few other lots that I hadn't focused on, though, that I bid on. So I have the hay hooks that I used to stack hay with, and have made a point to find someone I can hel with their hayin' just so I get to use them. But to your point, I also have his old copper "apple butter" kettle with the walnut stirrer he made for it. Until I can get somebody to tell me how to make that big a batch of apple butter, the kettle sits up over the stringers in my garage, just like it set up over the stringers in Grandpa's summer kitchen, all wrapped up in the two flour bags stitched together (that was another auction lot!), just like he kept it.
Somehow my sister wound up with the bell that was the bell for Grandpa's school. It came into the family when they consolidated the one-room school houses and my great-gandfather bought the schoolhouse and the ten acres it sat on, which adjoin the farm, at which point it became the farm bell. Nothing was left but the bell and the clapper. They sat around here taking up space for years. Most folks would have seen it as a rusty old bell or thirty-five pounds of scrap. Finally (fifteen years later) I got off my duff and found a support, yoke and crank for it. I had to have a post planed down to fit the casting on the support, but the old girl is right outside the back door and working again.
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