Here is what I received from my dear husband today in
celebration of St Valentine’s Day. It was just what I wanted!
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| A new drain cover for the drain in the garage! Score! |
I must quickly add that he also gave me orchids, chocolate covered pretzels and Cuties (clementines) for his cutie.
For the past 6 months, every time I parked the car in the
garage, I saw the rusting drain cover that had served faithfully since the
Revolutionary War, and imagined myself dropping my keys, my phone, my glasses
into that hole, which clearly led to the first circle of hell. A week before Valentine’s Day, I thought, I
know! I’ll ask my Dear Husband for a new drain cover for Valentine’s Day.
And then I promptly forgot to mention it at all. On Friday I was just about to bring it up,
when he said, “I went to two big box hardware stores and couldn’t find a new
drain cover. They told me to go to Tiny
Independently Owned and Operated Hardware.
The guy there told me he was out of that size. I had to order it from ‘Hard to Find Items’.”
My Valentine’s Day gift to you, Dear Reader, is to tell you
that Hard to Find Items is a business that actually exists. I don’t know if they can sell you Aunt Rose’s
necklace that fell behind the radiator twenty years ago, or a signed copy of
the Gutenberg Bible, or my older daughter’s passport*, or the mustard bottle that was
last used in July, but if you want a cast-iron drain cover for your True Love,
this is the business for you.
In fact there are several such businesses. But only online. Gone are the days when you can hold the drain
cover in your own hand and consider its weight, color, and beauty before you
purchase.
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| Family valentine's gifts. |
My gifts to DH and to Younger Daughter included dark
chocolate, Dictator Valentine cards, homemade
Lobster Bisque soup (recipe at the end of my post for Valentine's Day 2011), and Scottish-style smoked salmon (a celebration of both my ethnic heritage and my husband's).
My gift to Older Daughter was to send her a photo of her passport, which she needed in order to apply to go overseas after graduation, because why get a job right away? Alas, I did not give my son anything for Valentine's Day. I will have to bake him a pie when he comes home.
I also want to ask, Dear Reader, if there is any item which
you have discovered is hard to find.
What causes you to raise your lamp, like Diogenes in search of an honest
man?
*I found the passport, because I have the superpower of
finding things belonging to my family which they have misplaced. That includes the mustard which was last used in July.
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| And Happy Chinese New Year, too! I am not sure it is pointed in the right direction. |
8 comments:
I have the finding things superpower, too!! Since the boys were little, I have always been "Mommy, Finder of All Things."
Valentine's Day? What's that?
I'm the family finder too. Thanks for the tip about Hard to Find Items. I have ordered parts to fix suitcase handles from Hardware Elf.
LOL. A classic gift in a long-married couple. Enjoy your drain.
I did not know there was a website for such wondrous things. Thank you! My "uterine location device" doesn't work as well as it formerly did, which leaves me wondering if its powers were diminished by my hysterectomy.
At my house, I made my husband 3 low-sugar pies (which he's pretty sure should have had more sweetener in them, bless his "sugar is evil" heart). He bought me yellow daisies. The boys did absolutely nothing and received nothing in return because their mother has given up on them. (I can't speak for the married one although I think I raised him better than that!)
Lobster bisque recipe?
Sorry, Karen, poor wording on my part. The lobster bisque recipe is in a previous post.
Here's the link:
http://commonhousehold.blogspot.com/2011/02/take-that-chef-ramsey.html
There is a store-bought cookie from my childhood that I cannot seem to find: Lemon Coolers. They were a lemony shortbread cookie, coated in lemony powdered sugar, and they rocked my world. They also seemed to stop making them. Every once in a while I'll find small specialty packages of cookies that look a bit like those Lemon Coolers, but they are never even close to as good. It's all very sad.
Hard to find: a copy of this travel book I'd inherited from my grandmother then gave away about 20 years ago. I believe it was called "Around the World in 80 Days" and it had the most glorious pictures and descriptions of countries all around the world. I have never been able to find it, and every time I'm at a used book store I look.
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