Just a random object hanging from a hook on the edge of my fireplace.
Why?
Because it was a random object that my mother had hanging near hers and I kept it when we lost her and I cleaned out the house.
Do I need a better reason than that?
I have no idea where she got it, but I can say that she instilled in me the habit of collecting strange objects and displaying them in even stranger locations. As a few random examples….
- I have a wooden slug (that I originally gave to her) nine feet in the air on a ledge on a corner that runs around the tops of the windows.
- I have a metal crow (that I also gave her) 10 feet in the air on the top of a ledge in the brick on the fireplace.
- I have a tiny metal gekko (that she gave me) stuck on a nail on the fireplace where a large piece of art really ought to hang.
- I have a pair of silver tree frog earrings (that she gave me) in a climbing pose that hang from a curtain in the dining room…like they are climbing to the ceiling.
Mom was creative and had an eye for decorating detail that I will never have, and I that, among so many other things, about her.
And the lock sort of had some relevance to current world events. We have been cooped up for two months (where the hell did that go?!?) and I can’t help but wonder what monsters are waiting to escape when we open the lock….
Update: I have no idea where the lock came from, and I had no idea what it was from, but minutes after posting it a co-worker saw the post on FB and solved one mystery. I’d noticed the letters on the lock – CNR – and the immediate thing that came to my mind was Canadian National Railway, but I dismissed it. I shouldn’t have because said coworker wrote this:
“I used to have a key for that lock. Dad worked on the railway and that is a switch lock so people don’t mess with the rails. All switchmen carried that key. It was nice seeing that lock. Reminded me of my dad. Thanks.”
How cool is that!
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