Having made that apartment, our own storage space is now extremely limited, and I have to admit that I get frustrated when I go downstairs to get something out of storage that when I have to move a ton of someone else’s stuff out of the way to get to my stuff it can get annoying. None of us are in show business anymore, why am I tripping over an old microphone stand that has been bent up and is missing the base from it? I fear that my sister is a hoarder, and it is going to be a struggle to keep her hoard out of my space! At least all of her stuff is down in the basement on cement floors so I won’t have to worry about the floors rotting and giving way under all of her junk!

So it was with significant interest when we moved down here, to a different rural area that did not have those same issues with snow plows to see a variety of styles and colors of Gaines Mailboxes and Keystone Mailboxes scattered randomly along the rural roadsides. I suspect that more people in New England would own nicer mailboxes like these if they weren’t always thinking about the snowplow wiping out their investment!

I wonder if that is what is going to happen to the town I live in now; in forty years will it be a city, too? There are more cows than people here, and not a single retail store or gas station or traffic light. How quickly will progress march into this farm town?

My father said that one of his neighbors put up one of the Future Steel Buildings a while ago, and suggested that they go over and take a look at it and talk with the neighbor to see what his thoughts are about it now that he has had it a while. That’s a good idea, don’t you agree?

I like the spray salad dressing that they have available. You can really control the amount of the dressing this way. There is nothing worse that putting way too much dressing on your salad and then it becomes a soggy mess. A nice find spray is perfect!

Living in New England can be really hard on rural mailboxes. During the winter, snow plows often accidentally hit the mailbox which then falls over. When that happens, the post office won’t deliver the mail until the mailbox is put back in place. With a frozen ground, it is often difficult to set a new mailbox in place. So right before the winter freeze sets in my husband and I go over our plans for getting our mailbox plan ready.

I’ve been looking online at various whitehall mailboxes to see if they carry any mailboxes that might be snowplow resistant. I spent a long time looking at all of the different whitehall products that are available for sale online. When I go shopping at the local hardware stores, there are only a few different styles on display. Being able to see all of the different styles in the comfort of my own living room is a lot more comfortable than having to look through a catalog that is chained to the shelving unit at the store!

Back then we worked it out that my sister would stay in the apartment and do the so-called “wifely” chores and I went to work to bring home the bacon. She was a good cook and a good housekeeper and we actually had a pretty good time while she was staying there. We were the same size so we wore each others clothes and shoes, and to be perfectly honest I was more than a little bit sad when she and her husband decided to try to work it out and they took an apartment about two miles away from my place. Seems like just yesterday. Where does the time go!?