[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Grace Cangialosi]

LOL, Joe!  When I hear 'crib,' I think of a baby bed, so I was trying to imagine making one out of rocks! I figured it out pretty quickly, though...

> On Dec 23, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> About the only thing like that that I had was the crib my father started to
> make in 30's (going out and picking up rocks; using oil cloth etc) They
> bought a small set from Germany it may have been my grandmother's I don't
> know the history of it. After we sold the house I took that crib which was
> in several canisters and a large container to Christ the Redeemer where the
> sacristan (who was a dressmaker) fashioned a gorgeous display with
> multitudinous colored cloths. It remained there when I moved to Atlanta.
> 
> I still have a few of our ornaments from the 40's that I put out every
> year. I guess you'd call them folk art.
> 
> Joe
> 
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>> 
>> From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>> 
>> When I was cleaning out my family home in NW Wisconsin in 1998
>>> after my mother died at 98, I came upon a birthday card that had
>> 
>> When finally going through all my mother's cartons when we moved, I came
>> across envelopes of the Christmas cards my grandparents received in 1929,
>> 1930 and 1931. I know they moved at the end of the year those years, so
>> knowing my grandmother, she put the cards in the envelopes each year
>> intending to update her Christmas Card list, but never got "a round tut."
>> 
>> As they saved Christmas wrapping for re-use (heaven help my sisters or
>> myself if we tore the paper on a present!) they also saved the From/To
>> tags. at the bottom of the Christmas Tree Ornament box are dozens of these
>> from/to from relatives who are long dead.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>