Lorraine and I were talking about a set of china that I have from my Grandmother with a funny story of how she got the set and Lorraine thought it was nice that I still had them - we all must have items like this in our lives. Here's mine (I'll show you mine if you show me yours... )
This is the story -
"Aunt Jennie was one of my Grandmother’s four sisters (the Nelson girls), another wonderful cook ~ the sisters were always trading back and forth. My most favorite story about the sisters is one time when they and their families were visiting my Grandma & Grandpa on their ranch.
Some of the women were sitting around an oval table with the pedestal leg completely off center; others were doing dishes and stacking them at one end of this table. The sisters and other women all got up from the table at the same time and the end with the dishes piled on it collapsed and every dish in the house broke!
One sister got on the party-line telephone and the others lit out to the neighboring ranches to collect dishes and money. At the end of the day, there were enough dishes to feed the clan during the visit and enough money to buy a set of dishes that I still have! And here’s Aunt Jennie’s recipe as is written on a smeared, almost illegible note."
and here are the dishes bought with the collected money - aren't they just completely garish and gorgeous?? I love them.
I told you this post was completely off the wall - who else has some good stories?? It's rainy out and this is a good day for just chatting.
This is the story -
"Aunt Jennie was one of my Grandmother’s four sisters (the Nelson girls), another wonderful cook ~ the sisters were always trading back and forth. My most favorite story about the sisters is one time when they and their families were visiting my Grandma & Grandpa on their ranch.
Some of the women were sitting around an oval table with the pedestal leg completely off center; others were doing dishes and stacking them at one end of this table. The sisters and other women all got up from the table at the same time and the end with the dishes piled on it collapsed and every dish in the house broke!
One sister got on the party-line telephone and the others lit out to the neighboring ranches to collect dishes and money. At the end of the day, there were enough dishes to feed the clan during the visit and enough money to buy a set of dishes that I still have! And here’s Aunt Jennie’s recipe as is written on a smeared, almost illegible note."
and here are the dishes bought with the collected money - aren't they just completely garish and gorgeous?? I love them.
I told you this post was completely off the wall - who else has some good stories?? It's rainy out and this is a good day for just chatting.
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