An Old Cold Spot
My brother Mike emailed me this photo last night. He said this was a goodbye salute that he snapped today in his garage where this old freezer has been chugging away since 1988. That was the year our mama decided she was tired of bending over and digging through it. Besides, she no longer needed the capacity and hadn't for several years. Mike and my sister-in-law spent the next 25 years "digging" through this old freezer. My sis-in-law was very good at keeping it and the cupboards stocked. The two of them kept promising each other that "It is going to die soon, so we will just keep it until that day." Twenty-five years may seem like a very long life for a freezer. It is MUCH older than that. Sears only sold Coldspot through 1976. I thought that my parent's purchased this freezer in the sixties. My brother said he put the serial number 'on-line' and it matched a 1953 manufacturing date. Here is a close up of the make and model that
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And no worries about the saved bakeware and tupperware. ... I know what you are saving it for. You are going to use those lids that don't match anything to make giant eye glasses (faux) and those little footsie hop skippy things. .. you know ... where you use the lid, cut out the center of it, wear that around your ankle, tie a string to it, tie a weight on the end of the string about 18 inches out ... and then you go a skipping and hopping as that thing hoola hoops around your ankle, and you jump over it with your other foot ... hopping and skipping and hoola-ing.
Great fun. It's going to win you the most popular grandma award.
You are inspired. Not insane.
The raccoons were a good idea by the way. Haven't needed them yet.
Keeping our fingers crossed!
And the Intracoastal Waterway is a chain of sounds, inlets and channels between NC's barrier islands and the mainland. It's kept open to navigation almost all the way up the coast by dredges (where necessary).
Mine's posted if you'd like to stop by...it's of one of my "children"....
Oh, and I love your page. Reminds me of my mom - the dust can and does wait.
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Hugs and blessings,
Thanks for peeking at my pigs for WW! (It would be OK to have lipstick on my collar if it came from Mrs. Jim.)
We are sorta' out of pocket for a bit due to Hurricane Ike.
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I do have my Ike Skywatch Friday picture up now. I have to make good use of my borrowed (in evacuation) computer time.
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I have a little something for you on my blog, btw. :)
Love,
Sue
Stop by to see who I found this weekend.