Oh pshaw, on Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:13:43p, Dee Dee meant to say...

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> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message > My
> mom had a lovely cedar file card box that was chock full of her recipes.
>> When she passed away, the box passed to me. Luckily, I decided to scan
>> all the recipes for ease of use on the PC. Last year my partner
>> inadvertantly threw the whole thing out with the trash. I miss that
>> box, even though I have the recipes.
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>> Wayne Boatwright
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> That could have been a tragic loss. Almost the same thing happened to
> DH. When he was having a yard sale for his dad, a guy came up and handed
> DH a box and said, " I don't believe you want to get rid of this." It
> was a boxed album of family pictures. Each one was a studio picture of
> yet another person. It was held together by a nice clip and opened like
> a book with every picture and frame the same size and type - lovely.
> The pictures must've been taken in the late 1800's; some not identified
> as yet.
>
> However, DH's mother's recipes *had* to be scanned because they were in
> such bad shape, dirty and buggy and -- well you can imagine. But they
> were scanned, put on CD and passed out to family.

Your husband was very lucky to have that pointed out. And it's certainly
nice to have those old recipes. Back in the 1930s my grandmother had a
couple of her recipes published in a local newspaper. I have those
clippings.

> I know that you miss that box. Something to hold on to.

Yes, I tend to hold on, perhaps some might say to the point of being
morbid. I have my mother's "highly decorative" cedar chest (some would say
"hope chest") that holds many of her personal items. I don't even recall
all the contents, but I do remember a silver fox jacket from the 1940s, a
few pieces of good jewelry and a sterling silver dresser set. Perhaps my
worst "hold on" is a beautiful red wool coat that she bought a couple of
years before she passed away, that had become her favorite. It hangs in a
garment bag in a seldom used closet.

I guess I'm just weird. :-)

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Wayne Boatwright
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All dogs go to heaven. Cats watch them leave.