I'm a pack rat

Sometimes I dread the weekend because it means 'cleaning up', and cleaning up means going through the mounds of junk I have accumulated. I have stacks of paperwork that needs to be sorted through, but I invariably just end up creating 5 or 6 smaller, disheveled stacks. I hate to admit it, I always have at least one stack of 'I could use this for that' or 'I could make this out of that' ... I think I get a lot of that from Pop. He sure did love making things out of nothing. His dog-run log cabin, that won a state fair ribbon, was one of his crowning achievements, and he was especially proud that he scavanged all the wood from discarded heaps at new constructions sites. He would have loved 84 year old Gramma Tressa and her Bottle Village. She is my hero. I thought I had a lot of good junk. She actually made 15 houses (!) out of 1 million and 15 bottles (she actually counted them!) and she fashioned a fence from old television picture tubes. Her garden blooms with old doll heads and her walk is encrusted with license plates, scissors, plates, tiles, keys and the list goes on and on. If you want to hear Tressa talk about her home and her life, with her older sister chiming in, view this movie hosted by Folkstream.net:

Gramma Tressa and Her Bottle Village*

If you're a pack rat like me, you will feel sooo much better after watching and learning from Gramma!

*You will need Quick Time to view the movie. If you don't have Quick Time installed you can get it here. Just be sure you don't also download the iTunes by deselecting that option after clicking the Free Download Now button.