We went thru one of the two boxes in the garage of dishes. Mom had little things to say about some of the dishes, but not much.
After going thru that box, she went thru a clear plastic box that seemed to have old dish towels and other old rags. She found two "bonnets" and kept them. I will re-use or re-cycle the rest.
John and Karen came over and talked for awhile; we agreed to have Sunday dinner tomorrow with them after church.
Then we went out. First to Hollywood Treasures, an antique mall on 7th street. We wandered around for about an hour looking at things. Quite a few things elicited comments like "I have one of those" or "My Mom used to have one like that". They had a fair number of collectible plates; I didn't see any bottles. But this might be an outlet for some of the dishes in the box we went thru today -- we have another bigger one for tomorrow.
Then we stopped by Fred Meyer and got rid of Mom's bags of bottles -- $3.65! -- and got a roast chicken for dinner. Lots of leftovers.
After dinner, we watched the DVD of our old home movies. John had said earlier that it seemed that the audio clips often just stopped, and I noticed the same. I should check the master at home to see if this is a production problem (me) or with the duplicator.
Also, it occurred to me that the film that Dad took in Korea might be somewhat rare. There were certainly journalists and professional military photographers in Korea, but Mom says that Dad asked her to send him a camera and he had never used one before. So this is raw amateur footage of the Korean War from the point of view of a particular Army draftee. There couldn't have been very many such. We should look at donating it to an appropriate museum or something.
It being New Year's Eve, the neighborhood was lit up with fireworks. Blue did not like that at all and had to be drugged to go to sleep.
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