Timeless

If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know that I adore history. Historical artifacts, historical stories, genealogy, everything! In so many of our exploits seeing so many wonderful old articles from the past, I always walk away awed. HOW can such old, antiquated objects still exist or even still operate after all these hundreds of years? At Fraunces Tavern in New York City and at Fort Ticonderoga in Upstate New York, we gazed at articles owned by George Washington. I loved his old pocket watch, watch fob and watch key. It’s amazing that these things are still preserved! They just don’t make such things like they used to, either. Especially watchpieces. These “time” pieces are truly timeless when made well!

All my kids love wristwatches. A few of them have cell phones, but they still wear their watches. Problem is, the watches they have had are the “discount” watches from the local Wally World. Needless to say, I usually wind up (pun intended!) purchasing a new watch for each kid because the watches are so poorly made. 300 years from now, will museum visitors be treated to the junk from our landfills? Ugh.

It would have been better if I’d paid a little more and just purchased Citizen Eco drive watches for the children. Seriously, I could imagine George Washington wearing one of these watches, especially if it has a barometer or calendar. He and Thomas Jefferson were avid weather watches, I hear. You think this watch with its “perpetual calendar” would go over well?

P.S. My son saw me going through the BlueDial.com website and he came right over. “Wow, watches!” he said. I told you, my kids like watches!

Check out the store for some of the most beautiful watches you’ve ever seen. Truly, these are elegant timepieces. And who knows, maybe someday YOUR elegant timepiece will sit behind a display case in a museum.

A Gift From Scotland

My husband came home yesterday, waving a package at us. I’ve been receiving quite the number of packages recently, everything from pinhole glasses to coupons for eca stack. The kids and I jumped outside to him, to see the words “Royal Mail” printed on the envelope. My gift from Scotland has arrived!

A few months ago, my dear friend Alison held her first Blogoversary and a contest at her blog, Eleanor Blog. This is a lovely blog about the interests of a young lady who operates a tour guide business for Castle Fraser, once of Scotland’s oldest preserved castles (1575 or so). I hope to see the castle someday. In the meantime, I visit her blog, and entered her contest. And I won, I won!

Top suggestion or comment will receive a guide, booklet, magnet and thimble plus some heather seeds, all purchased with my own fair hands.

This is what I received.

The thimble is beautiful. It’s made of bone china. I allowed the children to touch it, then I safely tucked it in my china cabinet alongside my plate from Ireland, my 1900 frosted tea glasses, and my 1884 family Bible. It’s in good company! I’ll pass it down as an heirloom when the children are older.

We oooed and ahhhed over the brochures. It is even more difficult now to wait until I can visit Scotland someday, *sigh*. When I told the kids I would not use the heather seeds, but preserve them, they frowned. So I changed my mind and decided we will plant some of the seeds, but keep the remainder for posterity.

Thank you, Alison. I will cherish these gifts always!