Remembering my friend's father
By The Horse
@TheHorse (220245)
Walnut Creek, California
September 4, 2018 12:30pm CST
A good friend of mine is kind enough to give me some of the old cedar boxes his father used in his business decades back. My friend thinks that his dad put small bottles of wine or Scotch in the boxes and gave them to clients at Christmas. I sand them down, remove the old Logo, stain them up, and give them to friends, kind of like I do with the coasters I make out of guitar sound holes.
A couple of sentimental conversations ago, my friend and I agreed that I should make a box to honor his dad, before we run out. I told him I'd leave the Logo on, oil the box lightly, and leave it at that. We both lost our dads early, and wanted to do something to remember them by.
I finished this one up this past weekend and gave it to him when I went to dinner at his house this past Sunday night. He found a place for it immediately. I'll attach a picture of the box as I was oiling it up. Do you have objects around the house that remind you of departed loved ones?
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@spiderdust (14760)
• San Jose, California
4 Sep 18
Wait, there's no photo!
I have a pan that my grandmother (and her mother as well) used for roasting their Thanksgiving ham (they were German, so they preferred ham instead of turkey), as well as the rolling pin she used for making schnitzel (which she called "veals").
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@spiderdust (14760)
• San Jose, California
4 Sep 18
@TheHorse I can see it now.
I do think of my grandma in the kitchen as she used them. I also have a tiny cornhusk doll that she used to have in her curio cabinet. I think it's one that my dad got for her during one of his Wyoming trips (he taught a 2 week research course for biology/parasitology grad students during the summers at Grand Teton National Park when I was a kid).
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@TheHorse (220245)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Sep 18
@spiderdust That sounds like a fun Summer gig!
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@GardenGerty (160949)
• United States
4 Sep 18
I have lots of memorabilia, to the point it just about owns me. A good portion of the things I own are glass and are fragile.
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
4 Sep 18
Wow! That sounds very nice that you did a great job to make your friend happy!
Yes, I have got a small wodden statue of Indian God Lord Ganesha which is a inherited to me by parents and that is about more than 150 years old , that always reminds me my grand parents and their ancestors whom I never seen along with my departed father!
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
4 Sep 18
Yes I do, a few here and there.
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@wolfgirl569 (108166)
• Marion, Ohio
4 Sep 18
Yes I do. A few from a few different people.
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@wolfgirl569 (108166)
• Marion, Ohio
5 Sep 18
@TheHorse I have a bunch of those that I need to sort through. That might be a winter project this year.
@BloggerDi (3113)
• United States
5 Sep 18
What a wonderful idea!
One of my favorite items is my mother's Avon Rapture cologne bottle, from the 1960's.
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@BloggerDi (3113)
• United States
5 Sep 18
@TheHorse It's on a shelf on my bedroom wall. Its up there with a few other special things. I enjoy seeing it every day.
