A coupe of shop project creations from the boys. Keeping the photos for posterity. Fate of the creations is uncertain. ☹️
Tag: memories
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Toolbox Memories
My Grampa, my dad’s father, built this for me when I was a young boy, about 8 or 9 years old.
The toolbox came with a saw (original still in the box), a hammer, screw drivers, pliers and a number of small glass jars containing various sizes of nails. I still have some of those glass jars too! The box is very well constructed and has a lock which was quite magical as a young kid. Something I could lock up and keep secrets in. Sadly, the key has gone missing.
My earliest fond memory of using the tools was in Sudbury on a sunny Saturday afternoon out in the garage cutting up various bits of scrap wood and making my version of a toy boat. Something like this only less fancy. I thought it was a masterpiece! After all I did it all by myself!
Fancy Toy Wood Boat Over the years this toolbox has held lots of childhood treasures and good memories.
When we had Eric and Scott my dad decided to keep the tradition going and build our boys similar toolboxes.
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Coffee Mugs through the Years
Over my working career I’ve had a lot of coffee mugs. some came and went, some hung around, some were collected. The collection ends up in a a box , stored away for who knows what. I still buy more and more coffee mugs from trips like to Maui, Frank Lloyd Wright, Route 66, and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, all my current favourites.
So, what to do with the excess? Well, it was give away time! But, before they got donated away, they had their photos taken for posterity. The above photo is mainly my work collection showing the Sperry, Unisys (after the Burroughs takeover of Sperry) and IBM in the e-business days and beyond as well as some software products I was involved with like Sperrylink (early office automation), Mapper & Linc (4GL languages), Lotus Notes & Domino (best software ever and one of the reasons I moved to IBM as they bought the Lotus Corporation ). Somewhere I have some Great-West Life (now part of the new Canada Life) coffee mugs but they didn’t make the photo shoot. Days gone by, all just a photo memory now.