Remaining Items
Heather and I went through our very last box. Five and a half months in, we are done moving. Here are the things we agreed I could keep (if I was willing to stash them away in my studio):
A Realistic Weathercube.
Modified mousetraps that I had been using as organizational clips at our old place. I removed the latch mechanism, drilled some holes (so I could screw them into the wall) and then gave them a coat of polyurethane. They worked well (we used to store unpaid bills in them)—we just don't have a place for them now.
An old lock that my mom brought back from Utah as a gift for some reason I never quite understood.
Scale models (made in 1974) of an Iguanodon and a Diplodocus from the British Museum of Natural History. I've had them since I was a child.
A broken Colibri lighter that Heather bought in Baltimore's Inner Harbor when we were in school.
One of the horseshoes that Heather's mom sent us as a housewarming present when we took our last apartment.
The front-cover die from the hardcover edition of my book.
A piece by Andrew Sutherland.
A Realistic Weathercube.
Modified mousetraps that I had been using as organizational clips at our old place. I removed the latch mechanism, drilled some holes (so I could screw them into the wall) and then gave them a coat of polyurethane. They worked well (we used to store unpaid bills in them)—we just don't have a place for them now.
An old lock that my mom brought back from Utah as a gift for some reason I never quite understood.
Scale models (made in 1974) of an Iguanodon and a Diplodocus from the British Museum of Natural History. I've had them since I was a child.
A broken Colibri lighter that Heather bought in Baltimore's Inner Harbor when we were in school.
One of the horseshoes that Heather's mom sent us as a housewarming present when we took our last apartment.
The front-cover die from the hardcover edition of my book.
A piece by Andrew Sutherland.
I will never get moved in; especially if I think my weather cube or my horse shoe were at risk! The Sal Val has received many of my precioussssssss...
your collection of fabulous things has inspired me to collect more interesting items... (not that i need encouragement to be more of a pack rat!)
the mousetrap clips are ultimatly cool though, i really want some...
To clarify: Heather didn't threaten to throw away any of this shit, she's got a sizable pile of her own (owl figurines, seashells, picture frames, ceramic miniatures, turtle shells, snowglobes, etc.) to squirrel away.
I love collections of objects like this. For one serendipitous reason or another these objects coalesced, forming wonderful portraits of each of us.
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Ok...since I see Mick posting stuff, I feel obligated to respond too. Since when do I need a reason for giving a cool gift? It's just something that attracted me in an old junk store and felt great in my hand. And, I'll have you know, the bigger version I bought for myself came in quite handy the day we moved your brother to his apartment in Boston. And we had the coolest looking lock on a rented truck ever!
I like the lock. Otherwise I wouldn't have opted to keep it. Nor would I have photographed it.
I like it, and appreciate it, I just never quite got it. I knew you did though, which is why it's still having the time of it's life hanging out with my other studio knick-knacks.
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