A touching story

Husband has quite a collection of cat memorabilia. He started with some Gary Patterson plates when we lived in Barrow. But there was never any place to display them. He would often say, "Boy I sure wish we had a display case for those dishes." I would grunt in acknowledgment and go back to reading what ever book I had my nose buried in.



During my Labor Day trip to Idaho, he decided to go shopping at Schroeder's and Son's Furniture in Myrtle Point. All of our new stuff has been purchased there; beds, roll top desk, stove, fridge, etc. The only other stuff in the house has been yard sale items ie; water fall desk, water fall bed, waterfall vanity. He found the top half of a display case that was missing the bottom half. It was lighted, had glass shelves, three drawers, and chicken wire in the doors for that Country look and he got a deal on the price. When I got home he had the delivery guys set it on top of the roll top desk and it hung out a good foot on each side. Hmmm, this was not esthetically pleasing. In addition, we discovered that the lighting had no switch so it was either unplug or unscrew lights.

We went shopping at Whoozit and found two Danish Modern end tables that match the color of the wood. We unloaded the display cabinet, and gently set it on the floor, moved the desk and slid the end tables end-to-end and loaded the cabinet on top of the end tables. Well dang it, husband could not get lights to come back on. Phone call to Schroeder's resulted in them schlepping it back to Myrtle Point for repairs. They called a couple days later and told us the problem was fixed. Didn't need a switch, didn't need to unscrew the light bulbs. The cabinet was delivered in the next day or two and we now must hunt for the little plate display thingies instead of jamming heavier stuff in front of the plates.. oh and the secret of turning on the lights?



Just put your finger on the metal hinge and touch it three times for dim light, brighter light and brightest light. Duh....