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This memory may not be easy to explain, but here goes.\u00a0 Rose Bauer lived across the street with her husband, George.\u00a0 George fixed TVs in his shop and also had a shop at home; I learned a lot about electronics from him.<\/p>\n

Rose worked for Mattel Toys.\u00a0 Rose knew Mom was a creative person, so one evening Rose came over with a large box of “bells”.\u00a0 We are talking 600 bells!\u00a0 \u00a0(Mattel had finished production of the clock and had these parts remaining, which were headed to the trash!)<\/p>\n

Rose said, “I know you will do something with these!” The bells were half-round, bright silver plastic balls, placed on top of the clock!<\/p>\n

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Mattel produced clocks for kids to help tell the time, and of course, they needed to have ringers on the top!<\/p><\/div>\n

These bells were plastic and silver-colored, about 4 inches in diameter.\u00a0 The bell\/ringer was used on Mattel’s new “Tell-The-Time” clock.\u00a0 The picture above is NOT the exact clock I remember, but you might get the idea about the half-ball bell on either side of the top of the clock.<\/p>\n

So Mom immediately went and got some black string and a big bottle of glue.\u00a0 She put glue around the edges of the ringers and formed them into a beautiful silver ball, complete with a built-in string that would easily attach to a tree limb.<\/p>\n

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Mom made hundreds of these ornaments and gave them out as presents.\u00a0 She put them on the UGLY aluminum tree.\u00a0 For twenty years thereafter, I always found one or more of these decorations stashed away in the Christmas box.\u00a0 Side Note: My ex-wife tossed the remaining decorations out because she disliked ANYTHING my mother did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Today, we’re kinda relaxing after Friday’s whirlwind events!\u00a0 Today we are having lunch with friends at the American Legion, and then mid-afternoon Robin and Bob are joining us for dinner at Chez Liles with Head Gourmet Chef Robert Duda.<\/p>\n

But first, we paid the bills, did some laundry, hung up clothes that somehow magically end up on the back of office chairs, and gave little gifts to the gardener, postman, and others.\u00a0 We can never understand how two people can make such a mess.<\/p>\n

Off to the ocean we go!<\/p>\n