The PBS show, the history detectives is on in the background, (talking about Sears mail order houses--my house (just sold) had a Sears mail order garage).

The kitchen table from our first house(the family homestead)(the table is now in my daughters house) came from the Sears catalog, too. it was shipped by rail to NYC, and to the then town of Westchester, (now Westchester Square, in the bronx) buy barge, along with other stores my husbands family had purchaced. A barrel (of pickled herrings according to family lore) scarred the top of the table, with the rocking motion, before it got home. Now, the scar is one of the family stories.
Now i know the name of the part of the barrel!

Another corner of the table is gouged from the screws of the meat grinder, that used to be clamped onto the table.


my other obsession