Random Five Friday (even though it’s Sunday)
At the beginning of the week Bill and I set out to downsize a white elephant piece of furniture. It held an old television in a bookcase-desk that stood for 25 years collecting useless items and perhaps a small smattering of dust. We spent half a day brutally trashing unidentified papers including cancelled checks from 1989 and removing old engineering text books for donations.
The effort left us both sneezing. Do you think it could have been a bit more than a smattering of dust? Anyway, the result was a mystifyingly satisfying bare wall awaiting a new t.v. (another surprise birthday gift for Bill)!
Wednesday turned out to be old home week when old friends wandered in from Arizona and Washington State. They came as another surprise for Bill’s Birthday. But there is already a post on that.
Around that same time, a neat little console was delivered to hold the new big t.v. That left nowhere to display all the framed photographs that were on the original white elephant shelving. Now I am searching for a weathered wood collage frame to accommodate the pictures and to hang on the wall over the new television. One thing does indeed lead to another, requiring hours of internet searching and in-store muddling around.
Thursday evening we went to Hull’s Drive-In. Hull’s is one of the few remaining, verging-on-extinct operational theaters that were so immensely popular in the 1940’s and 50’s and where you watched a movie from your car. It’s a fine relic of the past that is now community owned, funded and maintained and if you are anywhere near here during their operational season please plan a visit. This particular night was “Robin Williams Tribute Night” featuring Hull’s Drive-InJumanji and Good Will Hunting and 30% of the box office proceeds were donated to our county’s Suicide Prevention Program.
After sharing meals and giggles, memories and experiences with teary eyed goodbyes, our friends left yesterday, Saturday, August 23rd, and we have been sleeping off and on ever since. Perhaps we are dreaming of the old days or maybe it’s just age reacting to emotional swings. At any rate we are missing all that action and laughter.
And our wish is that you will hurry back old friends. Hurry back.
Virginia Views 
But it’s so much fun “hunting” for something new (or old, as the case may be), to add to your decor.
Oh, and that “smattering of dust”: same thing at our house! I know you missed your company when they left…..
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What a lovely week! One thing does lead to another, or in our case, something pops up abruptly in the middle of one project and sends us off in another direction. Little by little, we sense a feeling of accomplishment. I’m so glad your friends were able to bring you such joy. I loved drive-in movies as a kid, that was one thing our family did together.
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Old friends are the best!
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Definitely!
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Yes there were three days of “other directions” when good friends came thousands of miles for a surprise visit. Bill and I are still suffering from stunned delight at the whole thing. 🙂
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Our home lacks a certain glamour since we get used to things and let them limp along until necessity dictates replacement. That “smattering” of dust was really a 25 year collection since we could never move the shelving unit and the back was inundated with wires. How embarrassing! 🙂
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Aw now how wonderful is that – nothing like old friends, they stay with you forever. Love how you spent you time with the 25 year collection, lol we did the same thing two weekends ago!
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Drive-in and remembering Robin W–memorable.
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A winning combination for sure.:)
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It feels so good to be done with the organizing and sneezing. In fact, it feels so good I want to start on a closet or something. 🙂
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