When my wife and I were planning our wedding back in 1985, she found an ad in the back of a bride magazine advertising a place with honeymoon cabins in the mountains of North Carolina. This was the place we decided to spend our honeymoon. The place was called Mountain Brook and they had a… Continue reading Printer’s Drawer – Penny from Honeymoon
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Printer’s Drawer – Meg and Hercules
Hercules is the first Disney movie we took our children to see. They were only 17 months apart in age and the first experience in a movie theater was an adventure. My son had a hard time sitting still for the whole movie, but it wasn’t a bad experience. This was the first Disney film that… Continue reading Printer’s Drawer – Meg and Hercules
Printer’s Drawer – Elvis Furniture Knob
When I made my first trip to Elvis Week in 2002, I did several things to document the trip. I took a cassette tape recorder and a digital camera to document the trip. Today, I could do the same with my iPhone. But with the cassette recorder, I felt more official in documenting the trip. … Continue reading Printer’s Drawer – Elvis Furniture Knob
Printer’s Drawer – Twin Peaks Keychain
In my previous post, I shared a lot of information about my family and our fascination with the television show Twin Peaks. In the series, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper stays at a hotel call the Great Northern Hotel. His room number is 315. Many key scenes in the series take place in the hotel room… Continue reading Printer’s Drawer – Twin Peaks Keychain
Printer’s Drawer – Bookhouse Boy’s Patch
When the television series Twin Peaks originally aired, my wife and I were instant fans. Our interest in this David Lynch related series came about because we were fans of his film Eraserhead. We watched the first season and were hooked. We bought the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer to read over the summer between the first and… Continue reading Printer’s Drawer – Bookhouse Boy’s Patch
Printer’s Drawer – Joanne’s Charm
My son had his first birthday a few months after my family moved to Middle Tennessee. His sister was 3. We moved to a community where we didn’t know anyone. We started attending the Methodist church in town and soon made friends there. One of the ladies that the got to know from the first… Continue reading Printer’s Drawer – Joanne’s Charm
Printer’s Drawer – Canasta Playing Cards
One of the items that you will find in our printer’s drawer is a playing card. The back of the card is printed with “Wheeler and Steele”. The Steele family lived across the street and a couple of doors up the hill from us when my family lived on Vine Street in Alamo. My earliest… Continue reading Printer’s Drawer – Canasta Playing Cards
Printer’s Drawer
Printer’s drawers were originally used in the printing business to store the type that was used in the presses. When printing technology changed most of the type was melted and repurposed for other things. Many of the drawers from the type cabinets were sold to antique stores where they were sold as knick-knack shelves. We… Continue reading Printer’s Drawer
The Big Picture
When my kids were graduating from high school, my wife was responsible for ordering graduations pictures. Because she planned to display these in our bedroom, she planned to buy the classic graduation pictures, the girls in drapes and our son in a tuxedo. The plan was to eventually have one picture of each of them,… Continue reading The Big Picture
Yearbook Accomplishments
My son has always had a knack for jokes that almost no one else would catch. One year when he signed up for 4-H he marked Eskimo as his ethnicity. He regularly told other kids on the bus that his name was something other than James. He kept up that one for at least 6… Continue reading Yearbook Accomplishments