My TTTT (two tier tower of tchotchke) has taken on the Lenten season in its decor. Someone gave me the idea to do this last year and I really enjoy having it as a visual during the lenten season. Simple, yet full of reminders of the solemnity of this season.
This is the inside of the garage door at my parents' house. The bottom starts with my parents' birth years represented on the license plates and then works upward with my sister's and mine and our husbands', then our kids' years. My dad is pretty creative - a license plate family tree!
This, dear children, is called an adding machine. It is far superior to a calculator.
This relic gets resurrected twice a year when we work on taxes and our housing allowance. I have always been a whiz on a 10-key (if I do say so myself), and twice a year I practice my skills while adding up scads of numbers. One of my kids wandered by while I was in stern concentration and said "Wow - you're a machine on that thing!" What a marketable skill I possess. :)
This song came on Sirius the other day and I snapped a pic to share with my parents and sister. Oh how we used to love this song! I had the sheet music when I was young and we'd often hum it around the house. So lilting and pleasant - hearing it brought a smile to my face and fond memories of my childhood.