Paul's search is over for the time being at least. He went to see this truck yesterday in Jonesboro and today rented a U-Haul trailer to get it home. I had asked him what color it was and he said green. It's sort of a, um, lime green. I thought it had faded, but Paul said no, that was the original color. Well, think 70's and this was a popular color, for trucks, too, I suppose. It's driveable, but the brakes weren't the best for a 50-mile trip. He's already had someone interested in buying it. Paul and I took the trailer back to Jonesboro this evening and ate at Dixie Cafe.
Neighbor Donald and Paul had a serious discussion about the truck. I have no idea what they were talking about - I was inside the warm house using the zoom lens. I did put on a coat, went to the mailbox, and Paul told him I'd retired. He thought something was going on, he said. "Wish I'd known that; I'd seen about getting some of those gloves the men wear." Someone had given him an old pair he'd worn out and could no longer use on the job several years ago and Donald had been wearing them all this time. I emailed someone at the office to see about getting them for resale. 
After we got the trailer back to the U-Haul people we went to Lowe's and bought a new mailbox. This evening when I got the mail out, one side of the door came unscrewed. Paul said we'd had more than one mailbox since we've lived here (36 years), but I know this one was really old. It's a little larger than our old one, so maybe it'll be easier for our mail carrier to get the Amazon.com boxes in it instead of having to contend with Mr. O at the back door.
I needed a place to put some scrapbooks of newspaper clippings I'd kept for Paul (now they go into a file folder), and I cleaned out the bottom of the living room closet. I know at the time there was a good reason to keep the old cell phone boxes, but I probably threw away every one we'd ever had. So many charger cords that won't fit anything we have now; and my first Razor (Razr?) that I dropped in the commode at the Tupelo hospital when Mama was there. Did I think it would start working again? It was a shame; I'd only had it maybe a month if that. Out it went. My old Canon AE1 camera - good old SLR that froze up many years ago and Wolf Camera said it would cost more to repair than it would to buy a new one, so we didn't. Now I wish I had. It's probably ready for a display case by now. Trivial Pursuit for Booklovers. No one here but me to play that game; Paul's not a huge book reader. The best game we ever had was Wahoo (sort of like Chinese checkers) and we had a board he made, and Frank and Martha had one I think Paul also made. We just about wore those things out playing together when we were dating and they were first married. I don't remember how to play, but I'm sure I could find the rules if I Googled it. I do know each person had five of one color marble to play with. Once when we got together about 20 years ago, and we'd been married about that long, too, we all signed our board, each one on a corner.
I'm sure I'll find all kinds of things we enjoyed in the past, have forgotten about, and it's sentimental to think of those times now, especially while listening to 50's on XM Radio! But it's okay. I have time. I'm not cleaning out things in frustration, but just taking the process a little at a time and remembering.
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