Just Keep Rolling Along

  Quite often, I have been dubbed the "Keeper of Weird and Wonderful Things".  The title says it all.  Not that this is any high honor or anything but merely a tag.  I am the one that usually winds up with all sorts of things that are "too good to throw away but with no apparent use".  Every now and again, I purge the place and vow to keep it empty.  It does not happen.  Invariably, someone will suddenly show up at my doorstep bearing all sorts of unique items that need a home...this home obviously.  As of late, I have taken to turning folks away with the excuse that the Little Bayou House is about to explode and spew thousand upon thousand of oddities and antiquities about the hillside.  This worked for a bit but then folks started getting sneaky.  Items would be left at the doorstep while the gift-bearing folks would scamper off into the sunset never to be seen again.

   Today, started with me gathering together the tools needed to bake cookies.  Darling Daughter and I had planned to go on a cookie baking binge!  As I grabbed the large mixing bowl, wooden spoons, sifter and rolling pin, a thought occurred to me.  I sure have a lot of rolling pins.  Why?  Who needs more than one?  It is not like you can use multiples of these things.  I looked at the one I chose for today's project.  This was Mom's.  In the drawer, there sat my grandmother's, great-grandmother's, aunt's and great-aunt's.  In the laundry room on a shelf sat three more rolling pins that I had acquired from who knows where.  Then in a drawer in the same room were three that had been found after Hurricane Katrina.  (Those are not used for food preparation, however, but are kept for crafting!)  Eleven rolling pins!  And this is not counting the miniature ones that I purchased for my granddaughter's visits!  Those came in a pack of three so....uh, oh...fourteen rolling pins! 

  Am I the only person that collects rolling pins even if it is an unintentional collection?  I quickly closed the drawers and threw a dish towel over the ones on the shelf.  There!  As my Great-aunt Ruth would have said "Out of sight, out of mind!"  What rolling pins?  I only see the one I am using today!  Yep, there could be some truth to that labeling thing.  Keeper of Weird and Wonderful Things...bwa-ha-ha....NEVER!.....I am just the Keeper of Things!