I just found an old rod I built

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Re: I just found an old rod I built

Posted by: roger wilson (---.hsd1.mn.comcast.net)

Date: April 18, 2011 12:13AM

Mike,
This brings back a very pleasant memory.
Many many years ago, my family and I went south to visit my parents at Christmas time. While there, I had brought a gift for my father.
It was a piece of artwork make of a piece of particle board, a piece of velvet cloth and a pattern along with copper wire and a box of hardware.
The object of this gift was to use the nails, wire and hardware to generate a piece of artwork that illustrated a Ford model A automobile.

While visiting we would spend a few hours each day to complete the artwork. It was finished before we returned home and my father hung it on the wall of his living room, where it was when he passed away.

I now have it in my rod building shop hanging on a wall.
Evrery time that I glance up at it, it brings back a flood of plesant memories of working togehter on the project as well as some of the other things that happend to us as we were together in a family.

Memories - you can't buy them.

Roger

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