So.......When I was a little boy....early to mid 70's...whenever we would go to my Grandmothers House I would always see this clock on the wall and would ask why it never got used......my Grandmother would say that it's just an old clock that her mother had.....She used it once for about 5 minutes just so I could hear it......Well even then I knew it was an Antique and I told her that if I never got anything else I wanted that clock........and so it stayed hanging on her wall until sometime in the early 80's when she finally decided to give it to Dad......Well he had it cleaned,learned that it really is just a basic "Kitchen" Clock circa 1915-17.....And up on the wall it went and we used it........It bongs out the hour count and a single bong at the 1/2.Many a time I would lay in bed just listening to the clock Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.Well once I flew the coup and got my own nest I asked when I would get my clock......And they just would never give it up.I thought when they retired and sold the house in the Cities and moved up the the Lake House that I would get it then.......Nope.....It found a home there too.Jump ahead to 2002.....When I was packing the car for a drive....granted I knew that if I didn't find a job I would be coming back home with a nice tan but I still wanted to take the clock on a trip to FLA. They said they would bring it the next time "If and only if you have your own place".Well I got a job,got my own place and I wanted my clock.........well for 4 years it went on like that....When the Snowbirds would pack the car I would ask if the clock was part of the packing and they would say no.So last year when they bought the Palace I said it was time for the clock to make the move.....And that's what it did this year......We had it cleaned again,had some 90 year old parts replaced and up on the Wall she went.So now she proudly chimes the hour and 1/2 hour for me and I get to once again lay in bed listening to her tick away the hours.I know that one day,If I ever conceive a little mouse it will be theirs.......or it will one day go to my Niece and a child of hers so it stays in the Miskowiec Family but until then she will hang on the wall and be loved
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My nana had a ticking clock as well. I don't know where that clock went, but isn't it wonderful how small things can bring back memories?
Tom that is a nice story, family things really mean a lot. Good for you for finally getting it.
Oh... I'm balling like a baby!! My Grand Daddy has a clock too!! A ticking and bonging clock!! It was his parents, the ONLY thing that he got of theirs. They bought it their first year of marriage and paid $3 for it. He told me a zillion times in my life "you know now, when I'm gone that clock is yours". I've told you all about my GMother throwing or giving away everything. I am SCARED to death she is going to give the clock to my Grand Dad's sister. I have tried to get it now and she wants to keep it in the house, says she cant go there if it's not on the mantel. I get that... but I have made it known (to EVERYONE that is in listening distance) that if anyone thinks of getting that clock.. I will put other family fights you've heard of to shame!! I will go NUTS! Reason being the endless conversations and times Grand Daddy told me about it and showed me how to wind it. (One thing you wind one way and one thing the opposite) I hear that conversation in my head and it's priceless!!
Ahhhhh.....better now. Sorry to take over your blog!
That's a great story.
-Amber :0)
I have my grandmothers' clock in my dining room :)
I love the story, no clocks in my past, but there are a few things of my grandparents that have my name on them. Like the portrait of them before their wedding
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