Pack Rat

My grandmother recently moved out of her home that she had lived in since 1961. This house was the only home my dad remembers living in, mostly because he was around 2 so he doesn't have much memory of anything else. But any way this house has lived thru 5 fires and actually there might have been more because it was only recently did we find out about one of them. The last fire required a remodel of the house that included adding on an additional bedroom and bathroom and rotateing the stairs to face the opposite direction.

But anyways, when Grandma moved out she moved in to a small apartment in town to be closer to my aunt for health reasons. She natuarally did not have room for all of the stuff that she had accumulated over the past 48 years and actually about a fourth of it was from her second husband Pete, who she was married to for about 10 years (man it doesn't seem that long). So my family has been dividing up her belongings and trust me there are a lot because she did not and still does not seem to want to throw anything away.

Along with my dad he has a sister who has 3 kids and then there is my brother so technically we are dividing the contents of the house 7 ways, you would think it would be easy but no unfortunately some of us want the same things and for different reasons. We think one of my cousins wants some items for monetary reasons, which is fine to me is kind of sad because they did not spend as much time with my grandparents as my brother did. But hey they can have their money I will keep my memories. Fortunatley for right now none of the stuff that I have requested no one has argued against me receiving it but I am also the type of person I wouldn't have put up much of a fight cause I still have the memory that they will never have.

What did I receive you are asking well let me tell you. I have all of the everyday dishes that they used. Yes they may have bought them right before I was born but still I remember eating every meal out off them and then going and digging the ice cream out of the deep freeze and eating ice cream with RC cola out of the bowls. It didn't matter what the temp was outside we always had ice cream for dessert, oh unless my grandpa had made a cherry pie and that was a real treat for a girl like me cause he generally only made them for holidays. Lets see what else do I have, Oh yeah I have the juice glasses, which apparently they were just little jam jars that grandma cleaned and kept after the jam was gone but I alway thought they were cute and held just the right amount of juice or milk for breakfast. I am told that once my grandmother is done with her kitchen table that I will recieve it too and to be honest with you the first time that I finally am able to put the table, dishes, and glasses together for the first time I am sure that I will not have dry eye. Because I am already planning on having my parents and my brother along with his family to sit with me for that first meal and I know the memories will flow and so will some tears.

Now I do have a favor to ask anybody who is reading this. Some of the plates in my set have been broken and not replaced and actually there is a huge list of different items that my grandmother was not able to obtain to make a full set so I have posted a picture and it anybody sees anything that matches please let me know cause I would like to continue to expand the collection. And if you feel like buying me some I did find a website that still sells the collection http://pfaltzgraff.com/index.asp?from=header just type in keyword Yorktowne because that is the name of the design.