About two months ago, my father-in-law died at the tender age of 92. Over the past month, my wife and I, along with most of the rest of her family have been cleaning out his home and getting it prepped for sale. This means going over and hauling out antique (read old - very old) and oddball tools, like a double-headed claw hammer (one strike face, two sets of claws, one under the other), mostly stuff that I've never seen him use, although a lot belonged to HIS father. Yesterday, my brother-in-law came across a trove of old model boxes up in the attic, 31 in all. They belong to another brother-in-law who took off a couple of years back leaving a lot of crediters, including yours truely, so I felt "justified" in scarfing them up. Except for a "Pirates of the Carribean", all are car models, mostly AMT or Revell, but a couple of Monogram, Pyro and Premier as well. That's the good news. Today, I started going through these and found that only seven are complete, the rest either missing major parts or suffering from terminal paint jobs that make them just so much plastic. So after pulling anything that I could use as shapes in multi-media projects, I started putting the rest in some of the cleaned out boxes for the garbage pick-up Monday morning. Sitting on top of the garbage can is a Renwal Mercedes 300 Gull Wing in 1:18 (IIRC - I haven't been a "car guy" since I was in High School)and while I was working, a couple of cars have been patrolling the street checking out my trash. Either this is Homeland Security or some rabid collectors looking to (they think) score. I think that its only going to get worse when the cans go out to the curb...... Wait until I start on my attic.
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18 years ago