I got to thinking about all the – and this is the only word for it – STUFF that I now find myself sorting through. That would be the stuff of my mother’s and father’s family. Some of it would be interesting to a history buff and other family members might find some memories.

On the sidebar to the right, I have made a link to a blog I started to show pictures of what I have been finding. I’m going to be very specific about the title of each post so the search feature can serve as an index. Did I include the widget search thingie? Well, I’ll be checking on that, I guess.

The name of this pictorial inventory blog is Sarah Shimp Grismore. I decided to use Mother’s name because both Shimp and Grismore are not common and people connected to those two families might find some historical information by a simple Google search.

As for myself, it will be nice to know that some aspect of this STUFF is organized.

* I had to come back to update this so I could tell Glenda I often think of her shelf with the vase Aunt Dorothy gave to Grandma on the first Christmas she (Dorothy) was working in Indianapolis. That’s the magic about things – just one thing can say, “I remember so much – people, relationships, ways of life, quirks, smells . . “