Wednesday Treasures - More Discoveries

Welcome to Wednesday's Treasures, where I try to share something from my treasure trove of memories, or the treasures that have memories...whichever way you want to look at it. Someone called it "Stuff with a Story", and I kind of like that description as well.  Well, yesterday our friend Annie over at Tuesday 4 , asked us to share memories about fun times at amusement parks or other special places. I started to join in and share such memories yesterday, but kind of got bogged down and busy and never got around to finishing the post. After reading what many others shared I figured I didn't really have all that much to share anyway, except this one special picture that I found in my old album:

Yes, that is me on the Merry Go Round when I was about two years old, and by the looks of my tongue hanging out I must have been having a really good time! My mother is watching close by, and she looks like she is having a good time too...  I am thinking this had to be somewhere in Pennsylvania, possibly up near Lake Erie, but I don't know that for certain. Maybe my sister Doris will read this and tell me what she can remember. So there you have my happy amusement park experience as a very young child. Although I love to go to country fairs and carnivals and such, I am not much for the rides. I've been plagued with motion sickness issues since a little child, and so I avoid anything that might spin or turn me upside down or go too fast.  I prefer to watch everyone else having a great time and that way I can "eat my cake and KEEP it too".  LOL.

While looking through my old photo album I came across this picture of me, again probably around age two, as a budding classical pianist.  Too bad it never developed beyond this stage:  

(I am probably better with using that hammer than I ever was at playing the piano! LOL)

But I still have my "Baby Grand" piano to show for all my wonderful talent:

Yes, this is that very same piano, a bit worse for the wear and barely plays a note anymore, but somehow I managed to keep it for ALL these MANY years! 

 

So there you have pictures of my great piano concert debut! 

Several weeks ago in my Wednesday Treasures post "Baby Me", I shared some things from my childhood that were special to me. a couple of the items were things that were found in a box of things from my parents' home when we were cleaning it out.  However, I no longer had the box, just a plastic zippered bag contained various items. Well, this afternoon my son called me and told me he had found a box among his things while cleaning out their shed that had my mother's handwriting on top and he wondered if I knew what it was about. The box did not contain these items, but some other things that were actually from my father's workshop. But the lid of the box had this written on top:

"Old Crocheted table cloth- round- Mama's?"
Pink Baby Bunting-Pam's
Old crochet/knitted booties
Russell's crocheted crib blanket - Mother Mursch 1943"

Well, here is "Pam's Baby Bunting" if you recall from the previous post:

And here is the crocheted baby blanket apparently made by my Grandma Mursch in 1943 for my brother Russell:

Or maybe it is this one, which was also in with the others:

This does look more like a "crib blanket"...a little well loved...but after all, it is about 77 years old!

This would have belonged to my oldest brother Russell, who sadly passed away a little over a year ago.

And here are the crochet' baby booties!

(Thank you again to "Baby Elva" for being our model today)

The only thing not in this batch of things was an old round crochet' table cloth. Not sure what happened to that or who may have it. But I was happy that my son discovered that information on the lid before he threw it into their bonfire while they were cleaning up around their property!  Speaking of bonfires...last night we had the "kids" over to our house for a Hobo Stew supper here, and then we went over to their house to sit by their fire pit /bonfire and make s'mores!

The fire got quite big and hot right off the bat.

Our sweet DIL Rose and her sister Sherri enjoying the fire

My hubby and son Benton also enjoying the fire

And yours truly enjoying the fire.

And yours truly enjoying a s'more. This could become a nice habit!

Once the fire died down enough to roast our marshmallows:

So thankful for a few chilly nights here in Florida that actually made that fire feel pretty good!

Not to be left out, among my "Wednesday Treasures" are these two sweet grandpuppies,

who really wanted to come join us by the fire:

Spice on the left and Sugar standing up watching

Who could resist that sweet face?

And Spice always wants to play ball.

And yes, they did finally get their way and came outside their little pen area to join us, but I didn't get a picture of that. They were quite content to each sit in their "parents" laps and watch the fire with us.

Thus ends another segment of my "Wednesday Treasures". I hope you enjoyed these new little "discoveries" along the way.  

And now for a thought for today from God's Word:

Psalm 16:5-8

5.  "O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;

You maintain my lot.

6.  The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;

Yes, I have a good inheritance.

7.  I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel;

My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.

8.  I have set the Lord always before me;

Because He is at my right hand 

I shall not be moved."

I hope that you can find a place of peace and comfort today knowing that the Lord is right here before us, and because He is right here at "my right hand", I hope you can also say with confidence, 

"I shall not be moved."

No matter what this old world throws at us, when we know we have God in our hearts and lives, and when we recognize that He is still on the Throne and in control, we can stand firm in our faith and confidence in Him.