Recycling

This bit of wood, after it's natural existence, began life as part of a stand for a mirror on grandma Lil's sideboard.  Father Jim turned it into a lamp stand.  Now mother has bought a fancy bedside lamp that comes on at a touch, and dims at a touch.  Of course, Lily started life with gas lamps, but did move into the first houses in town to be built with electricity wired in.  Today, Karen decided it would make a nice candle holder, hence boring a larger hole in the thing.  Incidentally, mother said if we wanted candle sticks, we must have a pair of her's, which were a 21st birthday present for father Jim, in 1950, from his aunt Clara.  History in a bit of wood, eh?