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I don't know which part of this blog I enjoyed more, the "Laura and Mary" stuff from Little House on the Prairie memories (oh, lucky you to have a little girl to read those to, I soooooo loved the series), or the VSO section. So wonderfully described!

Attics are so cool. Thanks for sharing your fun discoveries.

There is certainly no experience like going through your old stuff in the attic or basement when you reach middle age. Sounds like you had positive experience with it. Old violins? What do you do with them?
I have a couple hanging on the wall like dead chickens in a butcher shop. Thanks for taking the time to tell us about you homecoming attic experiences. I don't know what you do with old violins. I thought about taking this one apart, painting it, and making a wall hanging or something, but I don't have the time.

Terez, I actually started playing the violin in the first place because of the "Little House" books. I wanted to play music for the family at home the way Pa did.

Oh, Karen, that's so cool! Boy, did I love those books. Actually, one of my most positive memories of those young years. I was always able to escape into reading, and something about Laura Ingalls Wilder's stories made me feel like I was inside the experience. I've read all her subsequent books, as well, including the biographies of her. What a woman! (Sounds like her daughter was pretty exceptional too.)