Hurricane Irene

[BigLew]

Last time I saw one of those(a while back) the proud new owner gave me a tour of what he called his, "new to him antique."

My mom would purchase some interesting old furniture from two brothers who would go into the old famiily estates of Fall River, MA and New Bedford, MA. and buy EVERYTHING in one big lot and then sell it by the piece at their Antiques business. Most of them had been family homes of the textile industrialists and whaling ship captains/officers.

She would spend a lot of time stripping them down if they were painted or simply refinishing them. She did great work!

My younger brother started to call all the furniture "third hand furniture." My Mom asked him what he meant by third hand and he said, "first the peope had it, then antiques the dealer had it and now we have it." That's about right!

Each of my brothers and I have some of that third hand furniture now that she and our Dad are gone, but we take a lot of pride in that 3rd hand furniture.

Irene's LOW pressure must be effecting my brain for me to post this, but.....