Dining With The Fishes

Did you know that many collectors of vintage,

collect things that remind or connect them to their past.

...items that evoke fond memories of people, places, and days long gone.

Such is the old cricket bucket below...

A couple of years ago,

I started collecting vintage minnow buckets to display at the lake house.

Somewhere along my travels,

I came across an old cricket bucket/box to add to the other relics.

One of my beloved Grandmother Mac's favorite pastimes was fishing!

She raised fishing worms on her farm.

 As a little girl, I remember riding the narrow, winding country roads

 with her in her old green, big-as-a-battleship Chevy Impala.

Along the way, we peddled dirt-filled brown cardboard containers

 of worms to her faithful customers.

We also sold cartons of farm fresh eggs along the route,

but that's a story for another day!

Since she raised them, worms for fishing were plentiful,

but she also loved to fish with crickets,
 and had a bucket identical to the one I found. 

Nearby to where I grew up was a neighborhood lake,
 and some pretty good fishing holes.

My dad was a traveling farm chemical salesman, 

and occasionally my mom would join him on the road.

Grandma Mac stayed with my brother and I while they were away,

and fishing in our local spots was always on the daily to-do list!

Grandma Mac's cricket bucket captivated my interest.

I did love to fish along side of her,

but was just as content to sit and watch the crickets.

I was fascinated that no matter how they crawled,
(and they were busy little fellas), they couldn't escape the bucket.

Watching the crickets also occupied me, keeping me quiet.

Grandma was fun and loved to talk,

but fishing was serious business and commanded silence,

....heaven forbid we scared the fish! ;) 

The old cricket bucket might appear crude and not worth much.

But it transports me back to happy, carefree times.

...oh to be young again,
and unaware of the ugliness and darkness of this world,
as we've witnessed just this last week in our country,

 ..."sigh"...

Thanks for visiting!
Would love for you to share something you collect that has nostalgic ties to it!
...do tell!  :)

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