Dash Off A Memory, Create a Memoir/Precious Keepsakes

It's Guest Blog Friday, and you know what that means.

Here's Dorothy Ann Skarles!

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Hobbies or collectibles from family members seem to become treasures that never leave the home where they were first displayed.

I have liquor bottles shaped like model trains (still full of liquor), antique bottles extricated from the earth, and unusual beer bottles in different colors (empty) that my boys say I cannot get rid of.

All this great stuff that has been accumulating dust throughout the years is suddenly in a different category.

They are now my responsibility.

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I even have a beer can with Billy Carter's signature.  It says on the label:

Brewed expressly for and with the personal approval of one of America's all-time great beer drinkers--Billy Carter.  

"I had the beer brewed just for me.  I think it's the best I've ever tasted.  And I've tasted a lot.  I think you'll like it, too." 

When asked where the other five cans went, my youngest said, "Mom, you’ve got some famous beer there. Billy Carter is ex-president Carter’s brother. That can will be famous one of these days."

I can’t say I’ve ever been won over to have my own hobby or collectible. 

Until now.

A growing collection of posts for Dash off A Memory/Create a Memoir.

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Many years ago, while visiting a beautiful home, I saw a wall of shelves in the living room with white porcelain plates in delicate colors displaying coiled shapes of dog feces.

The excrement even came in little balls.

Believe it or not, I have actually seen this bizarre collectible twice in my lifetime.

Did you ever have a hobby?  If so, do you still have it?

What did you collect—stamps, baseball cards, maps, antique dolls, old cars?

Did you ever keep or see a strikingly out of the ordinary hobby or collectible?


daskarles©2011

Photo credit:  Collectibles: by something.from.nancy

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Thanks Dorothy.